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Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of sanitation facilities remains a big challenge and a serious health concern. Read more...
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale. Read more...
WASH businesses that are attempting to enter both water and sanitation markets worldwide are frequently not what you'd call "business as usual". Many of them are social enterprises started by passionate people who put people before profit and exist primarily to meet a specific challenge. Read more...
Making a range of good quality household water filters available to customers is an additional service and an intermediate solution until water... Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
Half of the sales agents in the USAID Transform WASH project in Ethiopia are women. Read more...
Lessons learned and a framework for understanding public-private collaboration in consumer sanitation markets. Read more...
You may have heard of the Lord of the Rings, but in Bihar, India, that name is taking on a whole new meaning. I recently joined a field visit to this part of the world to see how cement ring businesses are changing the face of rural sanitation. Read more...
The scope and potential role of financial institutions for sanitation financing and possible program interventions to support these institutions with... Read more...
The World Bank in Ethiopia has commissioned a rapid survey of what motivates people to upgrade their latrines, with the aim of delivering behaviour change communication materials with greater impact. Read more...
Whether you live in the countryside or city in Ethiopia, your water may be unsafe to drink. Household water treatment is one way we can improve its quality. Read more...
Presentation on the potential and bottlenecks on private sector engagement in Ethiopia. Read more...
On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus... Read more...
This report presents an overall analysis of the current Ethiopian private sector landscape in water and sanitation, with case study chapters... Read more...
In this catalogue you will find details of 19 businesses and entrepreneurs in the self-supply / WASH sector from Ethiopia. Read more...
32 professionals and teams from five woredas in Amhara recently came together for a training workshop on Self-supply acceleration. What did we learn? Read more...
Trainees from Millennium Water Alliance partner woredas in Oromia region came together in Adama to learn how to 'trigger' Self-supply. Read more...