WASH cost BLOG

As part of the Source Water and Sanitation News service, IRC and partners have set up the following news blogs on water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries. Readers can subscribe to each blog in a reader (RSS feed) or by e-mail.

Themes

• WASH Finance
• WASH Technology
• Sanitation Updates

Regions

• WASH News Africa
• WASH News Asia & Pacific
• WASH News Latin America and Caribbean
• WASH News Middle East and North Africa

Resources

• WASH Vacancies
• WASH Names
• WASH Events [forthcoming]
• WASH Training [forthcoming]
• WASH Resources (publications, websites, multimedia) [forthcoming]
• WASH Research [forthcoming]

Projects

• WASH Cost project

The WASH Finance blog contains news related to the financing of water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries, collected by Cor Dietvorst, the editor of Source Weekly published by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre WASH Finance includes both funding/business opportunities (consultancies, grants, prizes, scholarships, tenders) and news about funding mechanisms, new research and training opportunities. A selection of this news is edited for inclusion in the Funding Opportunities section of Source Weekly.

You can subscribe to WASH Finance as an RSS feed and by e-mail.

Visit WASH Finance at: http://washfinance.wordpress.com/ or check out recent headlines in the RSS feed right menu low.

Water, sanitation and hygiene services are critical to the Millennium Development Goals, the global effort to assist countries in lifting themselves out of poverty. Water and sanitation not only have their own targets, but are central to health, education, economic activity and poverty reduction. Yet there are still a billion people who lack access to improved drinking water and 2.6 billion – more than half the population of the developing world – lacking basic sanitation.

Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals is to “halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation”. For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, see www.un.org/millenniumgoals

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Project management at IRC
Project director Catarina Fonseca; manager Rutger Verkerk; assistant Sandra Segura; controller Willem Horbach

Specialists:
Capacity building: Deirdre Casella
Governance specialists: Alana Potter; Charles Batchelor; Patrick Moriarty
KM & communication: Jaap Pels

Country teams:
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Mozambique
India
Ethiopia (reserve)

International project advisory group:
Kristin Komives (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands)
Keith Burwell (Edinburgh Economics, UK)
Richard Franceys (Cranfield University, UK)
Charles Batchelor (Water Resource Management Ltd, UK)

Up to September 2008 the BMFG project on WASHcost in in the inception phase.

Have a look at the press release.