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https://www.ircwash.org/news/sanitation-reference-package [Accessed: 24.06.2019]

IRC Sanitation Pack, SanPack for short, contains an overview of available methods, techniques and tools in a low-cost, non-sewered sanitation service model, including tools for demand creation. It is a reference guide containing links to relevant documents explaining the different stages in the sanitation cycle.

Providing water and sanitation services to the urban poor often takes place in contexts with complex formal and informal land ownership arrangements. How can these challenges be overcome? Drawing on WSUP’s experience in the African Cities for the Future (ACF) programme, this Topic Brief gives an overview of this area, and discusses possible solutions. The Topic Brief also offers practical guidance for programme managers.

WSUP (2013): Dealing with land tenure and tenancy challenges in water and sanitation services delivery . London: Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) URL [Accessed: 24.06.2019]

The purpose of these project management guidelines is to help you to organise, plan and control your projects. They are designed to help you to maximise the potential for your projects to succeed by helping you address each element of your project at the right time and to the right level of detail for the size and complexity of your project.

BERR- DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENTERPRISE AND REGULATORY REFORM (2007): Guidelines for Managing Projects. London: BERR URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

This case study investigates how household financing for sanitation can be mobilised via microfinance institutions and commercial banks in order to accelerate sustainable access to sanitation facilities and/or services.

TREMOLET, S. KUMAR, T.V.S.R. (2013): Evaluating the Potential of Microfinance for Sanitation in India. London: Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE) URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

The aim of this study was to assess the use of traditional microfinance methods as an innovative approach to the development of Obizi Regional Water Supply Scheme in Aguata, Nigeria.

EZENWAJI, E.E. ; ENETE, I.C. (2013): The Use of Traditional Microfinance Method as an Innovative Approach to the Development of Obizi Regional Water Supply Scheme in Aguata, Nigeria. In: Hydrology: Volume 1 , 18-25. URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

This paper shows how local microfinance activities such as revolving funds, community rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAS) work for improving water and sanitation in Ghana. In addition, other examples of local microfinance mechanisms for water and sanitation from Cambodia, Uganda, Cote d'Ivoire and India are provided.

AGBENORHERI, M. FONESKA, C. (2005): Local Financing Mechanisms for Water Supply. Background Report for WELL. URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

ThisFactsheet will help you to develop your own Gantt Chart for your project.

TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (2008): Project Management Fact Sheet: Developing a Gantt Chart, Version: 1.2. . URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

This eBook helps you to manage projects more successfully by describing each of the steps in the project lifecycle.

METHOD123 (2003): Project Management Guidebook. URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

Given the low willingness to pay for latrines with cash, efforts to sell latrines at market price without any financing mechanism will lead to continued low penetration. The major implication of this study is that offering microfinance loans for latrines will dramatically increase uptake of latrines, while also making distribution significantly cheaper per latrine sold.

SHAH, N.B. SHIRRELL, S. FRAKER, A. WANG, P. WANG, E. (2013): Understanding Willingness to Pay for Sanitary Latrines in Cambodia. Findings from Four Field Experiments of iDE Cambodia's Sanitation Marketing Program. Denver: iDE URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

Microfinance application in water and sanitation is a burgeoning concept. This paper, which is based on a case study in Ghana, provides a clear case of extending microfinance to water and sanitation businesses.

AFRANE, S.K. ; ADJEI-POKU, B. (2013): Expanding the Frontiers of Microfinance in the Service of the Poor. In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences: Volume 3 , 129-141. URL [Accessed: 23.06.2019]

This report compares the capital expenditure and the operational and maintenance expenditure for sanitation facilities in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso. It presents the magnitude of the relative cost of different types of sanitation infrastructures such as the VIP toilet, the Ecosan urine diverting toilet, the pour-flush toilet and the traditional pit latrine.

KLUTSE, A. BOURAIMA, Z. AMEGNRAN, C. (2010): Sanitation Costs Analysis in Burkina Faso. (= IRC Symposium Pumps, Pipes and Promises ). Ouagadougou : URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

This report discusses the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare.

DEVOTO, F. DUFLO, E. DUPAS, P. PARIENTE, W. PONS, V IRES (2011): Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco. (= Discussion Paper , 13 ). Louvain-la-Neuve: Institute des Recherches Économiques et Sociales de l'Université Catholique de Louvain (IRES) URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

These guidelines present the Logical Framework Approach, with the analysis of the situation and how to prepare the related matrix.

AUSAID (2005): AusGuidelines 3.3 The Logical Framework Approach. Sydney: Commonwealth of Australia URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

This primer offers a non-technical introduction to financing for water and sanitation in developing countries.

WINPENNY, J. (2011): Financing for Water and Sanitation. A Primer for Practitioners and Students in Developing Countries. EU Initiative Finance Working Group URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

This booklet on Smart Finance Solutions gives examples of how various existing financial mechanisms and products are used to finance water and sanitation projects and support small local businesses.

NWP (2009): Smart Finance Solutions. Examples of innovative financial mechanisms for water and sanitation. (= Smart water solutions ). Amsterdam: KIT Publishers URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

https://www.ircwash.org/washcost [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

WASHCost, a five-year initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is focused on exploring and sharing an understanding of the true costs of sustainable services. Since 2008, WASHCost has developed new methodologies to better understand and use the costs of providing water, sanitation and hygiene services to rural and peri-urban communities in Ghana, Burkina-Faso, Mozambique and India (Andhra Pradesh).

This working paper provides an overview of Decision Support Tools (DSTs) using disaggregated costs in the water and sanitation sector. The DSTs have been developed by international organisations for planning and budgeting interventions in low income settings. It highlights the disaggregated costs used for each tool and makes recommendations for matching them to practitioners’ needs and capacities.

FONSECA, C. DUBE, A. VERHOEVEN, J. (2011): Cost-based Decision Support Tools for Water and Sanitation. (= Wash Cost Working Paper , 4 ). The Hague: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

https://www.wateraid.org/mw/what-we-do [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

This website provides information on savings for sanitation and other investments in Malawi.

The purpose of this working paper is to set out sanitation service levels to be applied as an analytical tool for WASH-Cost research on the disaggregated unit costs of water, sanitation and hygiene services. It should be read together with Working Paper 2: "Ladders for assessing and costing water service delivery", which introduces the concept of service levels, service level indicators and the use of ladders as a metaphor and a means to differentiate between broad levels of service. Both are working documents of the WASHCost team, aimed at providing a framework for data analysis to be used and tested by WASH-Cost.

POTTER, A. KLUTSE, A. SNEHALATHA, M. BATCHELOR, C. UANDELA, A. NAAFS, A. FONSECA, C. MORIARTY, P. (2011): Assessing Sanitation Service Levels. (= Wash Cost Working Paper , 3 ). Delft: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]

This document is about community savings through Village Organisations (VOs) in Pakistan that are responsible for implementing different development projects.

HUSSAIN, A. (2003): Conservation Funds and Community Financing. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Pakistan URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]