Building blocks - Module 2

To enable the support of a service, rather than the delivery of infrastructure, sector policy, institutions, legislation and structures may need to be adjusted or clarified. The service delivery approach consists of several ‘building blocks’ which are essential for sustainable water and sanitation services at scale. Change at sector level is not straightforward and in many cases, one has to start pragmatically addressing one or more of these building blocks within a specific context. Module 2 describes the building blocks for achieving sector change for sustainable water and sanitation services.

Life-cycle costs approach - Module 2

14 Nov 12

Module 2 of the Costing Sustainable Services Training package gives ideas and tools on how life-cycle costing can be integrated into your own work and organisation. It discusses:

How to develop a plan to introduce and integrate life-cycle costing into your own work or organisation to improve sustainability of WASH services
How to prepare for the collection of life-cycle costs and service level data; selecting life-cycle cost indicators useful to your programme, creating your own life-cycle costs approach questionnaires, and developing a life-cycle cost data collection plan
How to get more out of the life-cycle costs approach; increasing the level of detail for more complex analysis; using a life-cycle costs approach for poverty and affordability analysis; and using geographical information systems (GIS) in a life-cycle costs approach.

Module 2.pdf (356.5 kB)