WASH Finance blog
This blog addresses issues related to financing strategies and mechanisms for water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural and urban areas with a focus on the poorest and sustainability. It includes news collected by the editor of E-Source and contributions from IRC innovation programme staff working on the Financing and Cost Recovery theme and the WASHCost Project.
The cost of handpump water supply services in the Sahel
19 Apr 13
A new IRC- Triple-S/GLOWS/WA-WASH research paper analyses the absolute and relative value of each cost component of a water service (capital investment, operating costs, rehabilitation cost, support costs) and looks into each component cost drivers. The effective expenditures on 842 handpumps composing 192 rural water services are compared to the national guidelines available in Burkina [...]
India: Why drinking water services dwindle despite huge investments?
08 Apr 13
By Snehalatha Mekala and Kurian Baby The Department of Rural Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation in India has set a new target of reaching 55% of households with piped water connections by 2017 and reaching everyone by 2025. In recent years, the huge investments of US$ 35 billion and an additional annual average of US$ [...]
WASHfunders.org
01 Apr 13
This portal was launched in October 2011 by the US Foundation Center as a collaborative platform for philanthropic foundations that fund water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects around the world. The centre piece is an interactive map showing which foundation funds what where. Currently projects from 14, mostly US-based, foundations such as the Bill and [...]
Akvopedia WASH Finance Portal launched by Akvo and IRC
30 Mar 13
A new free and open source knowledge portal has been launched by Akvo and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. It is designed to help water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) teams achieve sustainable financing throughout the entire life-cycle of WASH services. What WASH costs do I need to finance? How can I finance WASH services [...]
Liberia: extra US$ 450 million needed to rebuild water and sanitation sector
02 Mar 13
Reblogged from WASH news Africa: Liberia will need to bridge a US$ 450 million funding gap to achieve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets that it set for itself in 2017. Liberia unveiled a five-year US$ 600 million investment plan to rebuild its WASH sector on 7 February 2013. The sector is still recovering [...]
Towards sustainable water services in La Paz, Bolivia
20 Feb 13
Reblogged from WASH news Latin America and Caribbean: A Dutch-funded project aims to bring piped drinking water to peri-urban neighbourhoods of the Bolivian capital La Paz. What will determine its success? Is it the inhabitants’ willingness and ability to pay for improved water services? No, the biggest threat to the sustainability of the project is [...]
19 Feb 13
This blog is a response to the video posted by Matt Damon, co-founder of water.org, where he announces a toilet strike to raise awareness for the water crisis. ——- Dear Matt, I enjoyed your video on water.org about going on a toilet strike. It is great that you are so passionate about realizing access to safe water, [...]
Costing rural water service levels in Burkina Faso
16 Feb 13
Based on national standards, the 7 boreholes and 3 standpipes in the village of Komsilga, Burkina Faso, are sufficient to supply water to 3,600 people. Since only 1,500 people live in the village, you might think that they had water in abundance. In reality, only half of the villagers receive a basic level of service [...]
Africa: AMCOW gets US$ 2 million Gates grant to build national sanitation capacities
24 Dec 12
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. AMCOW will use the 3-year grant for: technical guidance and training to four fragile counties to develop and [...]
Africa: AMCOW gets US$ 2 million Gates grant to build national sanitation capacities
24 Dec 12
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. AMCOW will use the 3-year grant for: technical guidance and training to four fragile counties to develop and [...]
