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Water, health and economics

Assessing the costs and impacts of different technical and policy actions provides a critical input to decision taking and policy making. WHO has developed and applied methods to apply such analysis to water sanitation and hygiene interventions and has worked with global and regional partners to undertake and publish studies. A major area of work is to adapt these methods so that they are appropriate for use at national and project scales.

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Driving development by investing in water and sanitation [pdf 2.94Mb]
This document is a summary of the report listed above.

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See also

Financing water supply and sanitation in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and central Asia (EECCA)
Conference of EECCA Ministers of Economy/Finance, Environment and Water and their partners from the OECD Yerevan, Armenia, 17-18 November 2005

Economic assessment

Development of WHO guidelines on generalized cost-effectiveness analysis [pdf 146kb]

OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT

WHO Guide to Understanding Costs and Benefits of Water Interventions

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