It's time to talk and act on finance. This eight-hour introductory course provides you with the insights to accelerate finance for more resilient water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems that can deliver sustainable services to all.
It brings together the latest thinking from all over the world and will provide you with a good understanding of finance as an essential part of sustainable WASH systems.
This course has been created by a partnership of UNICEF, IRC and Water For People, with funding from the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Government of the Netherlands.
This course introduces finance as a critical element for sustainable WASH systems. A sustainable system ensures service delivery to all people in a country. It can sustain services and adapt to changes and shocks, such as climate change and population growth.
Course objectives
By the end of the course, you will have a good understanding of finance as an essential element of sustainable WASH systems. You will know:
- How finance is essential for achieving universal and sustainable WASH services.
- What finance for universal and sustainable WASH services entails.
- The status of finance for universal WASH services.
- What a finance strategy is, and the most important elements in it.
- Why finance strategies are the foundation for financing sustainable WASH systems.
Course outline
This course consists of five sessions:
- Session 1: Introducing finance in the WASH sector
- Session 2: The life-cycle costs of sustainable WASH services
- Session 3: Funding the life-cycle costs of sustainable WASH services
- Session 4: Status of WASH finance
- Session 5: Finance strategies for sustainable WASH systems
- Test on sessions 1 to 5 and certificate
Complete all the sessions in consecutive order (i.e., from session 1 to 5).
