Financing and Cost Recovery

Few countries have realistic policies, operational strategies or plans for cost recovery and financing for sustainable water supply services, particularly for the poor. In fact most of the strategies for cost recovery are short sighted and address only part of the issue of sustainability, resulting in system degradation. Governments, development agencies and communities all over the world are struggling with this. This focus area needs to be addressed urgently.

WASH News Finance

This blog contains news related to the financing of water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries, collected by Cor Dietvorst, the editor of Source Weekly published by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

Unpacking the Business Case for Microfinance in Water and Sanitation

Seminar by USAID/ IRC/ BRAC and Water Partners International.
Thursday- August 20, 14:00 - 17:30, Room T5 at the Stockholm World Water Week

IRC work featuring in microfinance market study

IRC’s Catarina Fonseca and Stef Smits and nine publications from IRC and partners are featuring in: Assessing Micro finance for Water and Sanitation – Exploring opportunities for sustainable scaling up, a study by Meera Mehta for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,

Pumps, Pipes and Promises

The IRC Symposium 2010 (15-18 Nov) will focus on three themes in the provision and use of decentralised WASH services, and the linkages between them:

How much does it cost to provide WASH services?
How to finance WASH Services?
How to ensure accountability in provision of WASH services?

WASHCost

The WASHCost Project (2008-2012) in which IRC and partners are involved, researches the life-cycle costs of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural and peri-urban areas in four countries. The rationale is that WASH governance will improve at all levels, as decision makers and stakeholders analyse the costs of sustainable, equitable and efficient services and put their knowledge to use.

News

The Financing and Cost Recovery News pages contain the latest information on:

Announcement of events, publications, workshops and trainings;
Brief reports on conferences and Thematic Group meeting proceedings; and,
News flashes on developments in the area of financing and cost recovery for water supply