UNHCR aims at improving the budgeting of post-construction expenditure for the provision of water in camps, in particular those in post-emergency situations. This report presents a methodology to cost water services that has been adapted from the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) initially developed and tested in regular settlements and which has currently been adopted by more than 80 organisations across the world. The report details the information required to cost the provision of a water service, the tool that has been developed to assess the level of service delivered to refugees and the calculations that convert financial expenditure into cost per system, per capita and m3. It also explains how to estimate the life-cycle costs for providing a targeted level of service to a given population.
You can download the publication here .
By Christelle Pezon (IRC)

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