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This report identifies the need for community safe water solutions (CSWSs) in rural India and reviews the models employed by key sector players to address this need. It provides a platform for assessing and understanding the market for CSWSs by exploring the current economic and operating models, operating challenges, and funding scenarios for ensuring sustainability and scale-up.

This guide offers tips for Finnish SMEs interested in emerging markets, particularly serving the Base of the Pyramid, in highlighting business opportunities, tailoring products and services and showing examples of successful inclusive business models.

This report looks at the definition, types and purposes of Public-Private Partnerships in creating shared value in the Food and Water sector. It discusses a 'Dutch Approach' that supports development objectives, blending social, economic, and environmental value.

Esta investigación presenta casos en Guatemala, Bolivia, Perú, y Sudáfrica en los que se construyeron alianzas que desarrollaron formar innovadoras en la prestación de servicios básicos a las personas de la base de la pirámide.

This comprehensive report examines private sector provision of piped water services and on-site sanitation services in rural areas and small towns, with case studies from several countries. The preferences and circumstances of poor households and the performance of enterprises that provide services directly to them are examined, as are commercial and investment climate factors that may affect enterprises' actual or perceived costs and risks in the water and sanitation sector.

This interview with the Co-Founders of Water.org explores practical ways to solve the global water and sanitation crisis; it reviews how microloans help water flow, and discusses ending water scarcity.

This report looks at the phases and development of Public-Private Partnerships in the Food and Water sector, from initiation to institutionalisation, and states their success factors and trade-offs in the development context.

This note illustrates how water, sanitation and hygiene 'WASH' service provision can be approached in a way that fosters inclusion, promotes equality, and places the concerns of women and girls at the centre of programme planning and implementation. It outlines the example of establishing communal sanitation facilities in Maputo (Mozambique) and Naivasha (Kenya).

This case study focuses on the inclusive business model of AEGEA Saneamento e Participações S.A. (AEGEA), a large private sector provider of water and sanitation services in Brazil. AGEA's social tariff programme grants a 50% discount on regular rates to low-income customers. The case describes the inclusive business model, the company's commercial drivers, results achieved as well as IFC's role and value add.

This report explores market-based approaches for sanitation and waste management; it focuses on two approaches: models in urban areas with initiatives for servicing home mobile toilets and models in rural areas that create and activate local sanitation value chains and markets. Drawing on insights from twelve projects, it discusses the business opportunities, challenges, recommendations and the potential benefits of attaining corporate and industrial expertise, as well as how large corporations can contribute to providing sanitation for low-income consumers.