IRC conducts budget tracking studies to understand the financial flows, the district budget and expenditure on different categories of rural water activities and analyze changes in allocations across life-cycle costs categories. Basing on budget tracking exercises for the periods 2009/10 – 2012/13... Read more...
Please note : this is a beta-version of the Costing and Budgeting Tools; these tools are currently being tested in several countries. We invite you to use the tools and send us your feedback. Contact us in case you have any questions or suggestions via training @ircwash.org The tools have been... Read more...
Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
While the WASH sector grapples with the challenge of making India open defecation free by 2 October 2019, several issues persist. The WASH Dialogues series of events are an initiative of IRC and TARU Leading Edge, two organisations working on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, collectively... Read more...
Zobair Hasan ( DORP ) tries to convince local governments to allocate more funds to water and sanitation. He shares his insights in an interview. Read more...
Many colleagues are developing mechanisms to track progress towards Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals . Read more...
Tracking finance is needed to inform policies and decision making and to target investments in water and sanitation Read more...
The TrackFin initiative aims to put into practice a globally accepted methodology to track national financing for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and strengthen national systems for the collection and analysis of WASH financial information. TrackFin is a UN-Water GLAAS initiative implemented... Read more...
Financing for the water and environment sector in Uganda has shown a declining trend since 2008, leading to a reduction in funding for key aspects of water supply services. 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...
This page gives an overview of the papers and presentations that were provided on topic 1 of the 2013 symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Read more...
WASHCost Mozambique is saying farewell to their partners in the country, but leaving behind a treasure chest of resources. In a document highlighting ten key findings from the project, Andre Uandela says: “The project has come to a close, but the ideas and approaches have been introduced into the... Read more...
UNICEF together with the partners (including WASHCost) and the government has undertaken budget analyses of the water and sanitation sector. It shows that the weight of the water and sanitation sector is only 2.2%. Furthermore, it reveals that 80% of the budget comes from aid. The document raises... Read more...
The new budget brief by FDC and UNICEF analyses budget allocations for water and sanitation in Mozambique. The report identifies the disproportion between capital expenditure and running costs, as well as how external capital expenditure is used for covering running costs. Read more...
Traditional chiefs appealed to the Accra Municipal Assembly (AMA) that central funding to the WASH sector is not reaching their districts. This results in a disastrous situation that affects all irrespective of who you are. This was said during a budget tracking exercise organized by the NGO... Read more...
The Bangladesh government has reduced its allocation for water and sanitation by around 10 billion taka (US$ 121 million) in the proposed 2012-13 budget. Read more...
The Dutch WASH Alliance (DWA) works towards a society in which everybody has access to sustainable water and sanitation. DWA acknowledges that sustainable WASH has at least five dimensions: financial, institutional, environmental, technical and a social (FIETS) dimension, which are adopted in DWA... Read more...
In spite of the Government's pledge to commit 0.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to sanitation, the 2011 budget made provision for 0.1%, said CONIWAS Executive Secretary Benjamin Arthur. The government was also not fulfilling its promise to commit 200 million dollars every year towards water... Read more...
In spite of the Government's pledge to commit 0.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to sanitation, the 2011 budget made provision for only 0.1%, said Executive Secretary of the Coalition of NGOs in water and sanitation ( CONIWAS ), Mr Benjamin Arthur. Ghana is one of the signatories of the 2008... Read more...