Workshop - Slippage of WASH Services: Causes, Costs and How to Counter

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Organised by: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and WASHCost

Workshop objectives:
* to quantify the scale and extent of the challenge of "slippage of WASH services"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.

More information can be had here: http://www.irc.nl/page/45014
Access here: First Announcement & Call for Abstracts
Deadline for abstracts: 01 December 2008
Contact:slippage-workshop-2009@googlegroups.com
Location: Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India
Date: First week of March 2009