We believe that eventually the non-sewered sanitation market can become self-sustaining and serve everyone, from the remotest rural households to the urban poor. The private sector will then have developed sufficiently to make it want and be able to raise and meet the demands for affordable improved sanitation at all locations and levels. By that time the sector will provide services for every need and purse, except for perhaps the very poor and isolated areas.
Published on: 02/08/2012
We believe that eventually the non-sewered sanitation market can become self-sustaining and serve everyone, from the remotest rural households to the urban poor. The private sector will then have developed sufficiently to make it want and be able to raise and meet the demands for affordable improved sanitation at all locations and levels. By that time the sector will provide services for every need and purse, except for perhaps the very poor and isolated areas. At this future stage, less government interventions will be required. Government roles will become limited to the setting and preserving of sanitation standards, rules and regulations and the monitoring of progress towards - and preservation of - sustained access to and use of proper sanitation by all.
However, a mature market takes time to develop. Hence, we compiled this sanitation package; it contains products and services from the public, private and civic sectors to help the development a self-sustaining sanitation market. We compiled the pack from already existing materials of IRC and partners. These are in the first place IRC’s own partners, but they also include other organisations who have valuable and innovative products and who permitted us to use their materials.
Main contributors are:
IRC, ADCOM, AED, AKVO,BRAC, TREND, UNICEF, USAID, WATERAID, WASTE, WSP, WELL (LSHTM, IRC and WEDC),
