Financing & Cost Recovery
IRC has identified financing and cost recovery as one of its main focus areas for the coming years in order to address these and many other outstanding questions and gaps in knowledge about the financing of equitable water service provision for rural and low income urban areas.
Plugging the Leak: Can Europeans find new sources of funding to fill the MDG water and sanitation gap?
The starting point for this study was to investigate the possibilities for raising additional funds in Europe to help bridge the funding gap to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water and sanitation in developing countries.
Read more or download OP39_PluggingtheLeak.pdf (198.9 kB)
Financing Facilities for the Water Sector
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) explores the challenges of project preparation and financial risk in the context of the water sector. It also serves as an introduction to project development and financing facilities.
Read more or download TOP13_FinFacilities_06.pdf (445.5 kB)
What Price Water? User participation in paying for community-based water supply, with particular emphasis on piped systems
Catalogues different types of community financing systems and discusses what mechanisms for cost recovery are available, under what circumstances they can be applied and their advantages and disadvantages, with cases from the field.
Read more or download OP10-E.pdf (3.0 MB)
Life-cycle costs of rainwater harvesting systems
In partnership with IRC and the Rainwater Harvesting Implementation Network, WASHCost has recently published a study looking into historical trends and drivers of Rain Water Harvesting (RWH) adoption. Detailed comparisons are made between life-cycle costs of RWH systems and the life-cycle costs of other water supply systems.
Read more or download 46_OP_Lifecycle_costs_of_rainwater_harvesting_2011.pdf (1.7 MB)
Financing and Cost Recovery
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) provides an overview on financing and cost recovery for the water supply and sanitation services sector in rural and low-income urban areas of developing countries.
Read more or download TOP7_CostRec_03.pdf (1.2 MB)
Key Factors for Sustainable Cost Recovery in the Context of Community-Managed Water Supply
Sustainable cost recovery relies on a series of factors that range from tariff design to the design of an appropriate strategy, the application of sound financial management principles, the optimization of costs and the promotion of willingness to pay.
Principaux facteurs pour un recouvrement durable des coûts
Le recouvrement durable des coûts dépend d'un ensemble de facteurs comprenant la tarification, la conception d'une stratégie appropriée, l'application de principes de gestion sains, l'optimisation des coûts et la promotion de la volonté à payer.
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