Lusaka Water & Sewerage Company (LWSC) identifies business models
LWSC has launched a new mobile payment system for customers in Emmasdale and Chaisa to pay for their sewer connection.
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We help service authorities, regulators, ministries, and development actors unpack and visualize sanitation service systems. This includes collating, analyzing and presenting data on questions such as who has access to safe services, at what price, who provides the service and at what cost dis-aggregated by low - income and non-low income households.
The tool helps analyze and depict how tariff shifts affect the overall viability of the service system, with special emphasis on its impact on price and service coverage for low-income households. Users can play with a range of tariff structures and revenue models – for example, flat vs volumetric, direct and indirect, fixed and variable.
EquiServe helps users estimate viability gaps and explore and simulate how the subsidy impacts the overall service system. The tool has the capacity to work with a range of subsidy models – For ex, direct households subsidies/support, in-kind or monetary support to the private sector and aid/grants to public service authorities.
The tool is designed to assist users in developing and simulating the impact that different service model approaches have on equity, safety and viability of the service system. The tool is designed to help users quickly replicate or build new scenarios and helps users play with a range of infrastructure & policy/regulatory inputs, revenue models and financing structures.
Do you have an ongoing investment or are you planning a new investment in sanitation? The tool can help you review the key assumptions on service coverage, revenue model, life cycle costs estimate and financing approaches and flag key risks in terms of equity, viability and water availability to support the investment.
We help users creatively combine publicly available data sets with utility/user data to generate analytical outputs- This process of reviewing the nature and quality of utility data workflows helps illuminate gaps in the data workflow and serves as a guide to the help strengthen underlying data systems
Athena Infonomics, along with GWSC- AIT conducted a three day training program for CWIS service planning using EquiServe tool. The sessions were well attended over 55 participants from Government, IFI and sanitation professionals across the globe. Contact Mithra.v@athenainfonomics.com for any queries
View EventDiscussion on what strengthening ‘Data Systems’ means across different contexts with varying levels of maturity as well as practical strategies to strengthen data systems and harness data for sanitation planning, operations, management and reporting building- experiences from Ethiopia, Uganda and Liberia. Moderated Q&A with representatives from AMCOW, AFWASA and WB/AfdB.
View EventAthena, CWIS Technical Assistance Hub (Africa), UNICEF, & UN Habitat come together to discuss - What is a service system? How do we assess it? What are the PEA levers that have enabled coordination across actors and have helped plans to get successfully funded and implemented?
View EventSession on the regulatory mechanisms deployed by KCCA to improve onsite sanitation service delivery
View EventUTS, SNV, WHO, Athena comes together to emphasis sustainable cost-recovery: fundamental for equitable, sustained sanitation services and financing for full life-cycle costs to achieve SDG 6.2. The presenters also discuss the need for distributing such costs fairly and sustainably.
View EventThis workshop demonstrated how EquiServe tool(www.equiserve.io) and tools from Toolbox by FSMA (www.fsmtoolbox) can be combined for system assessment and designing appropriate plans.) can be combined for system assessment.
View EventHow public sector leaders and donors in Africa are operationalizing the CWIS functions of Responsibility, Accountability, Resource Planning & Management.
View Event1. Practitioners discuss the use of public financing resource as a means to formalise and sustain alternate service strategies that can improve water conservation, safe waste management and equity in basic services.
2. Sharing evidence from decentralized drinking water and sanitation service models in Haiti and India to press for a “service subsidy” that make services more affordable for the poor and viable for the enterprises.
View EventSector leaders and Athena Infonomics presented a session on the Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Services Assessment and Planning (CWIS SAP)/ Equiserve platform’s role in strengthening sanitation service delivery during Africa Water and Sanitation Week.
View EventAn in-depth demonstration of the EquiServe platform, and attendees heard firsthand from the Kampala Capital City Authority and Uganda’s Water Utility Regulation Department on how they are using the EquiServe to inform their service provision and regulation mandates.
View EventLe 17 août, Athena Infonomics a donné le coup d'envoi d'un atelier de formation des formateurs de deux jours qui a rassemblé des professionnels de l'eau et de l'assainissement de tout le Burundi pour étudier des exemples concrets d'assainissement inclusif à l'échelle de la ville (CWIS) et divers modèles de services, et discuter des cas d'utilisation pour les régulateurs, les fournisseurs de services publics, les ministères et d'autres parties prenantes. Cet atelier a présenté aux participants EquiServe, un outil analytique puissant conçu pour aider les dirigeants du secteur public et les acteurs du développement à concevoir des modèles de services créatifs qui font progresser les services d'assainissement équitables, sûrs et durables dans les villes. Ces efforts font partie d'un plan d'extension et d'institutionnalisation développé avec l'Association des régulateurs de l'eau et de l'assainissement de l'Afrique orientale et australe (ESAWAS).
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