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Collecting life-cycle costs

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Show Notes

How do you collect life-cycle costs?

In this podcast (4 mins) we hear from André Uandela on what is involved in collecting life-cycle costs.

André Uandela, is a life-cycle cost expert from Mozambique with over twenty years of work experience in the WASH sector. He talks about: • How can you collect life-cycle costs? • What challenges are often encountered when collecting and analysing life-cycle costs? • Can you give any tips to people wanting to collect and analyse life-cycle costs?

This podcast was recorded for the online course 'Introducing finance for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene systems'.

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