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
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
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South East AsiaWater Tools for Business
CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL has worked with global business organizations and companies to develop the world’s leading water tools that help individual companies across sectors identify their most significant water-related risks both globally and locally and the steps they should take to cost-effectively manage risk...Read more
Value of Water Coalition
CH2M HILL
CH2M HILL joined other leading organizations from the water sector as a member of the Value of Water Coalition which is working to inform Americans about the value of water and the challenges facing our nation’s water infrastructure. Read more
Water and Sanitation Markets in the Pacific: Understanding Demand and Fostering Sustainable WASH Marketplaces
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sanitation marketing has been identified as a promising approach for increasing access to adequate sanitation. However, it is unclear if sanitation marketing offers a coherent framework that can transform the WASH sector in the Pacific into a sustainable, demand-driven market. Further, access to...Read more
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East Asia and PacificDownstream 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
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Sub-Saharan AfricaSustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa Website
U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource is the homepage for Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa (SUWASA), a regional initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development. SUWASA is designed to spread effective models of reform at the water utility and sector levels, and to facilitate innovative financing...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaWASH Hilton in Practice Paper
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September 1, 2012World 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
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GlobalWSA Final Report
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October 1, 2013World Vision
In order to assess the sustainability of Hilton-funded systems with respect to functionality, water safety, and level of service, the Hilton Foundation partnered with Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA), an African NGO that was not involved in implementing earlier Hilton projects, to conduct a...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaReport: Multiple-Use Water Services for the Poor: Assessing the State of Knowledge
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December 1, 2007Winrock International
An assessment of the costs, benefits and poverty impacts of Multiple-Use Water Services for populations that could be reached in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. This study was conducted by Winrock International in collaboration with IRC and IWMI.Read more
Crafting Technical Docume nts and Making Effective Presentations
National Groundwater Association
?Learn how to compile technical information from a variety of sources into a coherent document and then communicate the data to a variety of expert and nonexpert audiences during this one-day course.Read more
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