Toilets on Credit
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video streaming Feb 2015 ; Duration: 13 min.
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Aut. Goufrane Mansour & Sophie Trémolet
Ed. SHARE - London Trémolet Consulting - London
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Abstract:
Can microfinance help increase access to sanitation? Today, 2.5 billion people do not use proper sanitation facilities. Essential services for maintaining latrines and treating faecal sludge are also underdeveloped. In many places, toilets can cost up to one year of income for poor households. Private operators of sanitation services do not have enough capital to acquire more equipment and respond to growing demand.
Since 2010, Trémolet Consulting and research partners based in Kenya MicroSave have been exploring the potential of microfinance for helping sanitation markets to develop. The research, funded by SHARE/DFID, culminated with an action-research in Tanzania in which financial institutions were trained to provide financial services for sanitation. This film explains why microfinance should be explored further, and potentially, included in sanitation programmes.
The film also presents what has been done in Tanzania under the action-research and takes the views of households, sanitation entrepreneurs, microfinance institutions and researchers.
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access to sanitation (CI) (DT) (ET) , finance (CI) (DT) (ET) , financing (CI) (DT) (ET) |
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SHARE
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Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity - London - United Kingdom |
Trémolet Consulting - London - United Kingdom |
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