News on financing and cost recovery
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
Seven references to IRC papers and books on financing in Water Policy article
29 Oct 08
Peter Harvey from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) in the UK used seven references to IRC papers and books on financing and community management in his peer- reviewed article Cost determination and sustainable financing for rural water services in sub-Saharan Africa, published in: Water Policy Volume 9 Number 4 2007.
UN-Water Reports
27 May 08
IRC is collaborating with UN-Water Global Annual Assessment on the Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report. A link to a briefing note on UN-Water reports can be found here.
IRC support to “Water and microfinance” seminar in India
01 Nov 07
During the state visit of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to India from 24 to 27 October 2007 IRC helped facilitate a “Water and microfinance: exploring innovative partnerships” seminar in New Delhi.
Key issues on financing water supply and sanitation services in small towns
04 Dec 06
What are the pros and cons of grants and soft-loans, market-based approaches, and everything in between, related to the challenges of financing small towns. A short overview will give insight into the most important facts and issues.
Successful community development fund in Ethiopia
31 Oct 06
Put simply, the Community Development Fund (CDF) in Ethiopia is a grant for the construction of community managed water points. However, unlike direct community support, the CDF is disbursed through a microfinance institution (ACSI) on demand from communities which are supported by the Woreda Water Resource Development Teams. It is a triangular partnership which results in a win-win situation.
Factsheets on microfinance available on the WELL website
16 Mar 06
The factsheets on microfinance for water supply services and sanitation explore examples of microfinance for the water and sanitation sector.
Microfinance has existed for centuries around the world, including Africa, but 2005, the UN year of microcredit, was instrumental to inform and advocate for microfinance. Mainstream banks such as Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, the Brazilian Unibanco and ICICI Indonesia have now found out that the poor, like everyone else, attach great value to being able to save and to face unexpected expenses. Historically, microfinance has focused on other sectors (such as trade, small scale producers). As the topic of financing water supply services has moved up the policy agenda, it has received considerably more attention in recent years within the water sector.
Financing the water sector
13 Jan 06
If we are ever to reach the Millennium Development Goals, much greater levels of finance will need to be raised, and sound systems of governance should be in place to manage them, Catarina Fonseca, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Rachel Cardone write in a recent Waterlines theme issue on financing.
Will it cost the earth?
21 Feb 05
This paper reviews the current global financing estimates for reaching the MDGs. Conclusions indicate that there is no consistency between the different cost estimates for achieving the targets: the range is $7.5- $70 billion annually. The way in which funds for the sector are used is more important than estimates for absolute levels of funding to achieve the global targets.
Thematic Group
25 Nov 04
The Thematic Group is a platform of individuals (and the organisations they represent) with a shared interest in the topic of financing and cost recovery for poverty reduction. The members work together to explore this theme, identify information needs and to develop different information products.
