Blogs

Tracking WASH budgets: experiences from Bangladesh

BLOG | An interview with Zobair Hasan, Chief of the Research, Evaluation and Monitoring department of Bangladesh's Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP)

Hollywood, avocados and poor water quality: California’s legal system and the chronic underfunding of water and sanitation

BLOG | Elena Humphreys examines how legal and financial restrictions in California are impacting water and sanitation provision during the state's record-breaking drought.

Water infrastructure in the USA: lessons from Flint

BLOG | High levels of lead in the water supply of Flint, Michigan, have sparked debate over the state of water infrastructure and regulation in the United States. This blog explores the shortfall in funding that led to the crisis.

Community-run aqueducts in Colombia promote public policy for scaling up public finance for WASH

BLOG | This blog describes a particular case of an association of community aqueducts in Colombia and the advocacy process to demand increased public investment and support to their work as water service providers.

Interview with Mr. Léo Heller UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation

Mr. Léo Heller, special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, talked to PF4WASH about issues such as government budget allocations to WASH, steps towards achieving SDG N. 6 and increasing tax revenue generation

PF4WASH at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference

Guy Norman (WSUP) gives an update on the PF4WASH session at the UNC Water and Health Conference: "Primary Research Around Public Finance for WASH: Ways Forward"

Making the SDGs a reality with fair and responsible taxation, by Winnie Byanyima

The road towards SDGs: domestic public finance must massively increase, but not through regressive taxes on poor. Read here Winnie Byanyima's article published on Europe World on 24 September

Achievements and constraints of public finance for water and sanitation in Kenya. Interview with Samson Shivaji, CEO of KEWASNET

INTERVIEW | Samson Shivaji, CEO of KEWASNET responds to a series of questions about the need for increased public finance of sanitation in Kenya.

Putting the spotlight on tough financing choices: the Batunga Toilet Challenge role play

BLOG | At Stockholm World Water Week, the PF4WASH initiative organised a role play in which participants had the opportunity to experience the challenges that cities are facing and explore new solutions to attract funding for sanitation.

Community Voices: Increasing Demands for more Municipal Spending on Sanitation

BLOG | Faustina Asante of WSUP Ghana talks about some very interesting work being done in Accra around increased municipal finance for sanitation.

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