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    Financing Sanitation: Promoting Sanitation as a Business for Improved and Affordable Services

    February 8, 2021

    An article from the Water For People Rwanda team on supporting the creation of the Association of Sludge Emptiers in Rwanda to help professionalize and strengthen the sector, making it easier to reduce the regulatory barriers, and linking households and sanitation entrepreneurs to financial institutions to finance small scale sanitation initiatives and access credit for…

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    Autoconstrucción de Baños en Cascas

    December 4, 2020

    El presente documento sistematiza la experiencia de saneamiento desarrollada en el distrito de Cascas, La Libertad, Perú con el propósito de despertar la demanda de la mejora del saneamiento familiar mediante la autoconstrucción de baños. La experiencia aborda dos procesos bien marcados: (i) la sensibilización de las familias y (ii) el fortalecimiento de capacidades de…

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    Sanitation Market System Development

    November 16, 2020

    Water For People firmly believes that market systems development (MSD) and the growth of commercially-viable sanitation businesses are the foundation for building sustainable, scalable, sanitation services in low- and middle-income countries. Our MSD approach to sanitation is rooted in the vision that no one is too poor to have safe and dignified sanitation, and we…

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    Sustainable School Sanitation in India

    July 28, 2020

    A presentation from the Water For People India team on “Achieving Sustainable School Sanitation for Broader Social Development” during the Thirteenth Annual Global Water Alliance (GWA) Conference held in Kolkata, India from January 4-7, 2020.

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    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 rural sanitation marketing as a part of a wider activity which portray ‘Sanitation as a Business (SaaB): A new approaches to Stimulate and Scale up…

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    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 compact treatment unit, meant for treatment of liquid effluent (urine and watery fecal matter) of pit latrines, household septic tanks and leach pits on daily…

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    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 them are looking to consolidate or expand their business, and bring sanitation services to scale for costumers at the Base of the Pyramid. This catalogue…

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    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.

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    Pit Emptying Entrepreneurs in Kampala Embrace Sanitation Safety Planning – IWA Webinar

    July 16, 2020

    Slide deck from presentation made by Cate Nimanya on sanitation safety planning efforts done by sanitation entrepreneurs (pit emptiers) in Kampala. From September 2019.

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    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.

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