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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 report investigates the demand for toilets in rural India, and the availability of quality and affordable products as well as financing for unlocking this demand. It proposes sanitation business models that could profitably deliver solutions that meet customer needs, and it highlights players in the sanitation ecosystem who could serve as the “market maker,” conducting market-building activities and creating an enabling environment for growth. It is a project output of 3SI, a 5-year project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which aimed to develop scalable private-sector business models for the local sanitation market.

This report examines approaches to providing affordable and safe water to low-income communities and how the public sector, philanthropic and commercial players can aid the growth of such projects. It provides an in-depth and comparative analysis of models in this sector and clusters the solutions into four groups: 'devices, flasks and tabs', 'pumping and harvesting', 'pipes and taps' and 'plants and kiosks'.

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.

The case study introduces the business model of the 2009 founded South African enterprise All Women Recycling (AWR) that recycles discarded plastic PET-bottles and creates greeting cards and gift boxes. AWR does not only address plastic waste pollution, but also tackles unemployment amongst black women. The paper also analyses the social, environmental and economic impact of AWR.

This study applies a base-of-the-pyramid impact assessment (BoP IA) framework to an enterprise providing sanitation services to urban slums in Kenya, with a focus on its poverty-alleviation impacts on children five years old and under. The analysis shows that assessing changes across multiple dimensions of poverty, including capability, economics, and relationship well-being, improves understanding of the effectiveness of a sanitation intervention.

Ensuring that WASH services recover costs while remaining affordable for low-income households, and reaching the city’s most vulnerable residents, is a constant balancing act. This publication illustrates that this is possible. Therefore, it explores the financial viability of six urban WASH service delivery models.

This case study assesses the business model and the social, environmental and economic impact of BananaPad, a Ugandan enterprise that produces sanitary pads made from banana tree fibres.

This report presents 14 founders of Inclusive Businesses in different countries /regions of the world. The reader gets an insight into the specific business concepts as well as into their personal history and motives of the entrepreneurs.