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
Microfinance Loans to Increase Sanitary Latrine Sales: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Cambodia
iDE
This document gives a brief overview of iDE Cambodia and ID insight's study of a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of offering microfinance loans for latrines versus the current cash on delivery model.Read more
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CambodiaEast Asia and PacificUnderstanding Willingness to Pay for Sanitary Latrines in Rural Cambodia: Findings from Four Field Experiments of iDE Cambodia's Sanitation Marketing Program
iDE
This study is the outcome of iDE Cambodia and ID insight's study of a randomized controlled trial testing the impact of offering microfinance loans for latrines versus the current cash on delivery model.Read more
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CambodiaEast Asia and PacificiDE'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
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CambodiaEast Asia and PacificiDE's Rural Prosperity Initiative 2 Impact Evaluation Report for Ethiopia
iDE
This is iDE's impact evaluation of its Rural Prosperity Initiative (RPI) in Ethiopia, implemented in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The RPI aimed to significantly increase the incomes of smallholder farmers through a few key channels, including; development and...Read more
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EthiopiaSub-Saharan AfricaiDE'S Rural Prosperity Initiative 2 Impact Evaluation Report for Ghana
iDE
This is iDE's impact evaluation of its Rural Prosperity Initiative (RPI) in Ghana, implemented in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The RPI aimed to significantly increase the incomes of smallholder farmers through a few key channels, including: development of affordable...Read more
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GhanaSub-Saharan AfricaIWMI Research Report: Treadle Pump Irrigation and Poverty in Ghana
iDE
This study examines the strategies used for dissemination of the treadle pump and the dynamics of its adoption and impacts, with a special focus on poverty alleviation. The data comes primarily from a survey of adopters and non-adopters in the Volta and Ashanti regions of Ghana.Read more
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GhanaSub-Saharan AfricaiDE's Rural Prosperity Initiative 2 Impact Evaluation Report for Zambia
iDE
This is iDE's impact evaluation of its Rural Prosperity Initiative (RPI) in Zambia, implemented in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The RPI aimed to significantly increase the incomes of smallholder farmers through a few key channels, including developing supply chains...Read more
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ZambiaSub-Saharan AfricaiDE's Sanitation Marketing
iDE
This provides a brief overview of iDE's innovative, market-based approach to safe water and sanitation access in rural areas.Read more
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GlobalWater, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) At iDE
iDE
This provides a brief overview of iDE's fifteen years of WASH experience and the approaches iDE has taken to be successful in implementing WASH projects.Read more
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