Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
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]
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]This website provides information on savings for sanitation and other investments in Malawi.
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).
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]
The document provides detailed instruction and tools in producing sound project design and as well as guidance on ways to excel in proposal writing. It also clarifies the logical framework used by ARC and others and compares it to the results framework of USAID.
AMERICAN RED CROSS ; INTERNATIONAL SERVICES (2006): Integrated Planning Process, Project Design & Proposal Writing Guide. Washington: Red Cross URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This report examines the financing of communal toilets in Maputo, Mozambique and argues that in high density, low income communities, communal toilets serving small groups of families can be an effective sanitation solution. The big challenge is to achieve regular payment from users, and effective community management of this revenue.
WSUP (2011): Financing Communal Toilets: the Tchemulane Project in Maputo. (= Practice Note , 2 ). London: Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This paper is a review of the experience to date in applying output-based and other results-oriented financing aid formats to the delivery of sanitation services and goods in developing countries. The paper looks at the theoretical underpinnings which justify output-based subsidies in sanitation, reviews a selection of output-based aid projects and then proposes some new approaches which could help to make financing in sanitation more effective and accountable.
TREMOLET, S. EVANS, B.E. SHAUB-JONES, D. (2010): Output-based Aid for Sustainable Sanitation. (= OBA Working Paper , 10 ). Washington DC: The World Bank URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This guide contains useful sections on project identification, design, appraisal and also proposal preparation.
BISHOP, C. SEAGA (2001): Project Cycle Management, Technical Guide. Rome (Italy): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This handbook summarises the rationale and essential elements of the logframe for practitioners. In its Annex #1, the document presents examples of logframe Matrixes of typical projects of the Bank.
THE WORLD BANK (2000): The Logframe Handbook: A Logical Framework Approach to Project Cycle Management. Washington DC: The World Bank URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This paper evaluates the attempt to create public goods via microfinance loans. Microfinance loans in the production of goods with public goods characteristics signify an emergent micro-privatization. As a case study, the production of water and sanitation resources via microfinance loans is examined in India and Vietnam.
MADER, P. (2011): Attempting the Production of Public Goods Throuh Microfinance: The Case of Water and Sanitation. Cologne: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]
This guide is for practitioners in developing countries – politicians, officials, professionals, private business people, members of civil society organizations and laypersons – involved in different ways in providing the infrastructure and services for water and sanitation. It is also aimed at students needing a compact introduction to this topic.
EUWI FWG (2011): Financing for Water and Sanitation. A Primer for Practitioners and Students in Developing Countries. Stockholm: EU Water Initiative Finance Working Group (EUWI FWG) URL [Accessed: 21.06.2019]This is the website of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute. Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) began to work as an NGO in Orangi town in 1980. The website provides information about five basic programmes of low cost sanitation, housing, health, education and credit for micro enterprises.
This training manual about Integrated Water Resources Management contains a module on indicators and its application.
TAYLOR, P. LIDEN, R. NDIRANGU, W. JIN, L. (2008): Integrated Water Resources Management for River Basin Organisations – Training Manual. Pretoria: International Network for Capacity Building in Integrated Water Resources Management (Cap-Net) URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]
This short booklet explains the concept of participatory impact monitoring in depth, but in a simple and richly illustrated way.
GERMAN, D. GOHL, E. (1996): Participatory Impact Monitoring Booklet 4: The concept of participatory impact monitoring. Eschborn: GATE/GTZ URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]
“Most Significant Change” is a tool that is used during a process documentation for analysing Information. This publication is aimed at organisations, community groups, students and academics who wish to use Most Significant Change to help monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects, or to learn more about how it can be used. The technique is applicable in many different sectors, including agriculture, education and health, and especially in development programs.
DAVIES, R. DART, R. (2005): The “Most Significant Change” (MSC) Technique – A Guide to its Use. Cambridge, Hastings: URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]
This paper compiles available information on indicators of drinking water quality within potable water distribution systems. The indicators include microbial and non-microbial parameters, for which sample collection and analyses could be performed to identify existing or potential problems, as well as other methods or tools that may similarly function as problem indicators.
EPA (2006): Distribution System Indicators of Drinking Water Quality. URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]