Reorienting Infrastructure, Technology, Finance and Trade.
Recognizing water bankruptcy also changes the role of infrastructure, technology and finance.
Finance for WASH and its effective utilization is critical for extending and sustaining WASH services.
This section focuses on the development and implementation of WASH financing plans and strategies, cost estimates for plans and strategies, adequacy of financial resources for WASH, government budget data, cost recovery, and WASH expenditure and its sources. Having WASH financing plans/strategies is one way to strengthen system performance and make better use of existing funding by defining and prioritizing capital needs, improving government coordination and transparency, and defining the desired levels of service while identifying the existing and potential sources of revenue. Despite the potential, more than a third of countries have reported that three WASH areas – hand hygiene , WASH in schools and WASH in health care facilities – do not have financing plans/strategies to identify funding sources and guide investments, although potentially these are integrated into broader education or public health strategies (Fig. 6.1). Furthermore, while it is encouraging that 7...
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