Sanitation Market Development : A Head Start for Healthier Living
Given a choice, poor people in Bangladesh will like to be treated the same as any other consumers who go to the market, assess all the options, and then make their purchases either with a lump-sum payment or through an installment plan. Even with a...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/11/13914740/sanitation-market-development-head-start-healthier-living http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10472 |
| Summary: | Given a choice, poor people in
Bangladesh will like to be treated the same as any other
consumers who go to the market, assess all the options, and
then make their purchases either with a lump-sum payment or
through an installment plan. Even with an interest
component, installment buying gives them greater economic
liberty. The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) not only
facilitates this economic liberty, but, more importantly, it
also promotes sanitation reform through affordable means of
waste management that include hand washing, waste
management, and sustainable latrine options. To promote the
sustainability of the sanitation program, with the aim of
scaling up, WSP designed and implemented a small project
Scaling Up and Sustainability of Total Sanitation in
Bangladesh (SSTSB) from April 2008 to March 2009. As a
result, rural consumers in the five piloted villages of
Jamalpur district (Mohanpur, Ghoradhap, Chandpur, Chontia,
and Kalibari) now can choose from among 20 latrines that
cost from Tk 400 to Tk 20,000 ($5.50 to $290), hand-washing
devices (from $.60 to $7), and solid- and
liquid-waste-management technology (from $5 to $10). This
smart lesson describes how this progress came about. |
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