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.

Business Approaches to WASH Resources

Building Local Well Drilling Capacity in Senegal

Publication date:
August 1, 2013
Relief International
U.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/Country focus:
Senegal
Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Uganda
Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Tunisia
Middle East and North Africa

iDE's Ceramic Water Filter

iDE
This provides a brief overview of the ceramic water filter and iDE's application of this technology in Cambodia.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Cambodia
East Asia and Pacific

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