Market-based approaches for sustainability in WASH, incentives, and scaling up for success

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Market-based approaches for sustainability in WASH, incentives, and scaling up for success
Yi Wei, Global WASH director for iDE interview speaks about her experience with implementing market based approaches to #WASH in #Cambodia and other parts of the Indo Pacific region. She also shares how iDE is taking a human centered approach to WASH and what makes that different from other approaches.

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  1. So did any of these initiatives get independent of the funding subsidy? There are few examples of this---that is why "subsidy" is not a welcome word in WASH. It is hard for Westerners to understand low-cash economies and that people will not pay for things they can make or do without. Also, many WASH technologies can be made with little money. Aid organizations and foundations should focus on this, instead of creating a whole industry of WASH workers and NGOs that "introduce" technologies for decades. I like the Megh Pyne Abhiyan (Bihar, India) and CITA (Mexico) models of demonstrating solutions.

  2. Thanks for iDE Global Wash!  To all appearances the market based approaches will involve a new paradigm in the business of delivering safe drinking water, which will happen using community scale water filter systems of granulated ceramics.  These will start out by fabricating large scale containment, using the water filter media of TAM Ceramics. Partner with TAM to seriously reduce the high rate of infant mortality, due to pathogen contaminated drinking water!  Following are links to a recent presentation as well as the newsletter of TAM, *Veritable Niagara.* 

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tDvw5PIld95uCVGIcEoc05oBqBgKpk5s

    https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k5rSz51FpLG8yKrsZsgEfwSwY44Ds8Fn