Slippage of WASH Services: Causes, Costs and How to Counter
Updated - Monday 01 December 2008
Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India, First week of March 2009
Organised by: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and WASHCost
"Currently, 95% of the villages [in India] have clean drinking water. But large number of villages often slip back and there are numerous villages with serious water quality problems.” (Prof. Kirit S. Parikh, member of Planning Commission of the Government of India, Oct 2007)
Workshop objectives:
- to quantify the scale and extent of the challenge of “slippage of WASH services” [1] and to increase the understanding of the main causes
- disseminating the results of the research and workshop, and scaling-up of good practices related to the WASH slippage challenge.
The workshop will build upon the experiences in implementation and research programmes of both government and non-governmental organisations.
Topics:
- scale and extent of slippage;
- costs of slippage or of certain aspects thereof;
- impact of slippage on the MDGs;
- definition and use of numbers in monitoring sustainability;
- practical methods on addressing slippage.
[1] Indian definition of slippage: the occurrence of WASH service delivery systems that worked (according to government norms) at a certain moment in time and which have fallen back to a lower level of service delivery.
The maximum number of participants is 40.
Deadline for abstracts: has been extended to 12 December 2008!
Contact: slippage-workshop-2009@googlegroups.com
Second announcement and call for abstracts
- - Location:
- Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India
- - Date:
- First week of March 2009
