Business Approaches to WASH

According to UNICEF, business approaches to WASH rest on the fundamental premise that private businesses can play a much greater role in providing sustained and sustainable access to improved WASH services to low-income households. Business approaches to WASH invest strategic support to help private businesses sell more affordable, desirable products to traditionally un-served communities. Resources available in this sub-theme include tools to understand the supply chain, guidance to help businesses deliver more value, and others to increase business approaches to WASH infrastructure.

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Business Approaches to WASH Resources

Building Local Well Drilling Capacity in Senegal

Published: 
August 1, 2013
Relief InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
An overview of various well drilling technologies and their costs, this document also provides a case for the adoption of manually drilling wells where appropriate. Manually drilling wells, when professionalized, can be completed at the same level of quality as mechanized rigs but at 1/4 of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

A Market-Based Approach to Facilitate Self Supply for Rainwater Harvesting in Uganda

Published: 
January 1, 2011
Relief International
This Technical Paper was submitted, accepted and presented at the 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum in Uganda. While it is technical in nature, it provides a lot of information about the Domestic Rainwater Harvesting (DWRH) project that RI implemented in Uganda where RI leveraged a private...Read more
Regional focus: 
UgandaSub-Saharan Africa

Preparing for Private Sector Participation in The Provision of Water Supply and Sanitation Services

Published: 
August 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
National and municipal governments in many developing countries are turning more and more to the private sector to supply the capital and management needed to expand services and extend infrastructure. These efforts have been more successful in the power, telecommunications, and transportation...Read more

Economic Benefits Available from the Provision of Improved Potable Water Supplies: A Review and Assessment of the Existing Evidence

Published: 
December 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
While billions of dollars are invested every year in water projects in developing countries, only rarely are these investments subjected to serious economic analysis, mainly because many professionals doubt that the economic benefits of new water supplies can be determined with sufficient accuracy...Read more

Re-Examination of Costs and Benefits of Rural Water Supply Projects in Central Tunisia

Published: 
April 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
This paper describes a benefit/cost (B/C) model developed for the Regional Commission for Agricultural Development (CRDA) of the USAID-funded Rural Potable Water InstitutionsProject in Kasserine, Tunisia, in response to one of the principal objectives of the project: to maximize water investments...Read more
Regional focus: 
TunisiaMiddle East and North Africa

Social Marketing and Water Supply and Sanitation: an Integrated Approach

Published: 
May 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Social marketing offers a comprehensive approach to integrating improvements in water supply and sanitation with the behavior change necessary to make these technologies effective in improving public health status in developing countries.Read more

Sanitation Marketing: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Enterprise Development (Watershed) Project - Cambodia

U.S. Agency for International Development
One pager on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Enterprise Development (WaterSHED) Project in Cambodia.Read more
Regional focus: 
CambodiaEast Asia and Pacific

Real Impact: Lower Mekong Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Enterprise Development (Watershed)

U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID's Real Impact series highlights examples of water sector projects around the world. Each case example provides from-the-field insights about successful approaches, challenges faced, and lessons learned.Read more
Regional focus: 
South East Asia

Downstream of the Toilet: Transforming Poo into Profit

U.S. Agency for International Development
This briefing note provides a look into the private-sector service delivery model that WASHplus and the International NGO Practica designed and piloted in Ambositra, Madagascar to sustainably manage fecal sludge generated in the city using low-cost decentralized technologies.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

WASH Hilton in Practice Paper

Published: 
September 1, 2012
World Vision
This report provides a retrospective look at the philanthropic investments of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector over the last two decades. It summarizes the Foundation's achievements, critical lessons learned, and the evolution of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

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