Theme 1: Costs of services

After decades of work, many of us in the sector still do not know how much our interventions actually cost and will cost in the future. Even more worrying, many stakeholders have little idea of the disaggregated or component costs of interventions such as capital infrastructural costs, recurrent O&M costs, capital maintenance, institutional development and capacity building costs. Clearly, there cannot be proper planning and budgeting by local governments, donors and other stakeholders without quantitative data to support – and even drive – these processes.