Over the past four years WASHCost teams in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique have collected, validated and analysed cost and service level information for water, sanitation and hygiene. This Infosheet provides an overview of the minimum benchmarks for costing sustainable basic services in developing countries. The benchmarks are useful for planning, assessing sustainability from a cost perspective and for monitoring value for money.
IRC (2012): Providing a basic level of water and sanitation services that last: cost benchmarks. (= WASHCost Infosheet , 1 ). The Hague: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) URL [Accessed: 01.11.2012]