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    Expanding the Supply of Sanitation and Hygiene Products and Services in Rwanda

    June 29, 2026

    This article describes how the Isoko y’Ubuzima project left behind a legacy of a sustainable market of sanitation and hygiene products and services, embedded in Rwanda’s administrative and community structures.

    Viable and Scalable Business Models for Sanitation Entrepreneurs in Rwanda: Evidence from the Isoko y’Ubuzima Project

    June 29, 2026

    Isoko y’Ubuzima findings from comprehensive business viability assessments, financial landscape analysis, and capacity building initiatives. We highlight two viable business models: micro-franchising for DSCs and integrated models for pit emptying,…

    Leveraging Informal and Formal Financial Systems to Improve WASH Services in Rwanda

    February 25, 2026

    Author: Marie Nicaise Ugabinema, CARE This product is a knowledge product of the Isoko y’Ubuzima (Source of Life in Kinyarwanda), a WASH initiative funded by the U.S. Government and implemented…

    Fondo de Innovación para Redes Sociales: Promoción de Cadena de Valor de Saneamiento en Redes Sociales

    May 5, 2021

    En esta Nota Técnica, descubre como el equipo de Nicaragua usó las redes sociales para: • Facilitar que la mano de obra local fuese conocida • Motivar a proveedores de…

    Case Studies on ‘Sanitation as a Business (SaaB)’

    July 28, 2020

    The project ‘Strengthening the Rural Sanitary Mart through capacity building of Cluster Level Federations and private entrepreneurs on sanitation business in rural Bihar’ is an initiative towards the sustainability of…

    Membrane-based Sanitation Technologies An Innovation Worth Getting Excited About

    July 28, 2020

    Water For People India and its partners are developing the prototype for a pit life extender (using membranes) and a compact mobile treatment unit. A Pit Life extender is a…

    Sanitation Business Catalogue

    July 28, 2020

    In this catalogue you will find 27 business propositions of entrepreneurs in the sanitation sector from all over the world. Together, they offer a variety of services and all of…

    Structuring Business Start-Ups for Urban Sanitation Markets in Uganda

    July 22, 2020

    The Uganda team details lessons and experiences from structuring business startups from urban sanitation markets from Uganda in a paper presented at the Africa Water Association February 24-27th, 2020.

    Water For People introduces a business approach to sanitation management in Uganda

    July 16, 2020

    A newspaper article featuring an interview with CD Cate Nimanya, on Uganda’s Sanitation as a Business program.

    No Short Cuts: Reaching Scale Takes Time and Persistence

    March 26, 2019

    A Water For People blog on scaling sanitation businesses, known as Points of Purchase (POPs) in Muzaffarpur, India.

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