Financing & Cost Recovery Documents
Documents on Financing & Cost Recovery other than available official IRC publications.
Briefing Note on budget tracking approaches in the WASH sector: methods, applicability and examples
In this note, budget tracking approaches and methods, and its applicability within the WASH sector are discussed to offer insight into how and whether it can be applied within the Dutch Wash Alliance (DWA) programme. The DWA works towards a society in which everybody has access to sustainable water and sanitation. DWA acknowledges that sustainable WASH has at least five dimensions: financial, institutional, environmental, technical and a social (FIETS) dimension, which are adopted in DWA programmes as part of its FIETS sustainability principles.
Read more or download DWA-LL_budget_tracking_note.pdf (190.1 kB)
Assessing microfinance for water and sanitation: Exploring opportunities for sustainable scaling up
30 Mar 09
More than 2.4 million people die every year from diarrhea and other water-related illnesses because they don't have safe, sustainable water and sanitation. This crisis persists, in part, because the financial services that could help vulnerable populations pay for water and sanitation remain largely unavailable to the poor. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WS&H) initiative commissioned research into the potential market for expanding small-scale banking and credit services.
Read more or Go to the finance paper on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation website
Smart Finance Solutions
This booklet on Smart Finance Solutions, like its equivalents on water and sanitation, gives examples of how different financial mechanisms are being used to finance water, sanitation projects and small local businesses that contribute to reaching MDG-7.
Read more or download Smart_Finance_Solutions.pdf (1.4 MB)
Headline issues on aid effectiveness in the water sector
This mapping exercise has confirmed that, despite difficulties and statistical constraints, it is feasible to disaggregate the ODA to the water sector from European Union donors into the three component subsectors sanitation & hygiene, water supply and IWRM. And to map aid these flows geographically to African recipients.
IRC_EUWI-HeadlineIssuesEN_02w.pdf (181.3 kB)
Working together to improve aid effectiveness in the water sector
Mapping EU Development Assistance to the Water Sector in Africa: Exercise of the Africa Working Group of the European Union Water Initiative 2007-2008.
Until now, it has not been possible to assess levels of European Union Member States’ funding to water supply and sanitation separately, using existing sources of information. This mapping exercise, initiated by the Africa Working Group of the European Union Water Initiative (EUWIAWG), will help to address this problem. This is particularly important, given the commitment made by African leaders in Durban in February 2008 to have separate allocations for sanitation as described in the eThekwini Declaration on Sanitation.
Read more or download EUWI-AWG finalreport Eng Dec 2008.pdf (1.9 MB)
Innovations in Financing Urban Water & Sanitation
This paper describes the role of financing water and sanitation for the urban poor, identifies current innovations and maps out the next steps to take.
Read more or download Innovations in Financing Urban Water & Sanitation 2007.pdf (1.4 MB)
Mapping European Aid to Africa: Summary of Findings of the EUWI-AWG Aid Mapping Exercise
A mapping exercise was conducted to obtain an overview of how the European Union Member States and the European Commission are allocating current and future official development assistance (ODA) to Africa among water supply, sanitation & hygiene and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The exercise takes into account the proportion of aid allocated to infrastructure against aid directed to sustainability components, as well as issues related to the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, alignment and harmonisation.
A full report is being prepared jointly with UN-Water Global Annual Assessment on Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS), planned to be launched at the Stockholm World Water Week 2008. However, this summary of preliminary findings was prepared to be delivered at the Conference on Sustainable Development (CSD16) held in New York during May 2008.
IRC_EUWI-AWG_08w.pdf (565.7 kB)
Microfinance for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
A short introduction on microfinance issues in the water and sanitation sector.
Read more or download Microfinance_ India.pdf (809.5 kB)
Money matters: Cost estimates, budgets, aid and the water and sanitation sector
29 Jan 07
This WELL briefing note 36 gives an analysis of the global aid financing picture, based on 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa which are least likely to achieve the MDGs: Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
Cost estimates, budgets, aid and the water sector: What’s going on?
Increasing access to water and sanitation services is a financially daunting task. Recently, a large number of studies have been conducted to estimate the costs to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In this analysis the authors focus on the adequacy of estimates of the cost of providing access to water and sanitation per capita in these countries, rather than how effective or efficient the funding flows may be. They hope to initiate discussions and reflection on these issues by exposing what seems to be contradictory information in the sector.
This document forms the basis for WELL Briefing Note 36.
WELL Financing Trends Final.pdf (199.0 kB)
