This Finance Brief summarises the increasing relevance of Domestic Resource Mobilisation (DRM) in supporting the ambitious goals of the Sustainable... Read more...
Where will the money come to finance water and sanitation for all by 2030? Not from development aid. Developing countries need to get better at raising taxes. Read more...
This brief summarises recent data on budget allocations to sanitation in four African municipalities. Read more...
This Finance Brief briefly summarises the history of water and sanitation services provision in the US, the UK, and South Korea, and considers... Read more...
What is domestic public finance? and why is it essential for providing universal water and sanitation services? Read more...
Public Finance for WASH: a new collaborative advocacy and research initiative by WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting. Read more...
In this blog, economist and IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca argues that taxation is crucial in reaching the post-2015 development agenda. "Tax is a prerequisite for governments to become truly democratically accountable to their people," she says. Read more...
Il faudrait que les gouvernements, la société civile et le secteur privé agissent de concert pour rendre les services d'eau et d'assainissement accessibles à tous. Read more...
S'agissant d'assurer des services adéquats pour les pauvres, les approches basées sur la tarification ne suffisent pas. Read more...
IRC's event on November 12th explored how public finance can be used effectively together with aid and private finance to support sustainable services at scale. Read more...
Governments, civil society and the private sector need to work together to make water and sanitation services available to everyone. IRC's event provided an opportunity to discuss how taxes can complement trade and tariffs and to learn from an innovative health insurance model in Africa. Read more...
Ce rapport présente les résultats d'une analyse de l'efficacité de l'aide publique au développement au Burkina Faso de 2007 à 2013. Les données... Read more...
Ghana is experiencing economic growth. Donors say that more domestic generated resources need to be raised and channeled to the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
How can public finance be used effectively together with philanthropy/aid as well as private finance to support sustainable services at scale? Read more...
Dans ce blog, Catarina Fonseca, responsable du programme international et d’innovations d’IRC, traite du financement des objectifs de développement pour l’après-2015. Selon elle, « une part importante des fonds pour le développement devraient provenir d’autres sources ». À savoir des finances... Read more...
In this blog, IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca discusses the financing of the post-2015 development goals. "A substantial part of funding for development should be sought elsewhere," she argues. Through public finance. Or tax, as we call it. Read more...
Public finance- money derived from taxation- is critical for achieving water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone forever. But how do we get governments to prioritise it? What should it be used for? And how can we get it flowing to local levels? WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting will be exploring... Read more...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...