Supporting sustainable sanitation improvements in Bihar through supply-side strengthening (3SI) Increase access to and use of improved sanitation facilities and services and establish a sustainable, market-based supply chain for sanitation products and services in Bihar, India

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In 2012, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PSI launched 3SI: Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements in Bihar, India. PSI with support from partners Monitor-Deloitte, PATH and Water For People is taking key steps towards improving sanitation access in Bihar by addressing constraints in supply and demand in order to build sustainable markets for sanitation. Activities include: innovating from existing toilet designs to drive down the cost while still meeting consumer needs and preferences (work led by PATH), building the capacity of local entrepreneurs to run effective toilet businesses, providing both households and businesses access to financing to facilitate investment in sanitation through advocacy with local partners as well as training and support to loan officers to sell sanitation loans, exploring products and services such as pump trucks and tiger worms for the safe removal, transport and treatment of the human waste from both pit latrines and septic tanks and coordinating all of these activities with a variety of sector actors such as government, service providers, producers and finance providers such as local and nation microfinance institutions (MFIs).

Goal:
Increase access to and use of improved sanitation facilities and services and establish a sustainable, market-based supply chain for sanitation products and services.

Supporting sustainable sanitation improvements in Bihar through supply-side strengthening (3SI)

Mission

1) Develop and support sustainable business models for increasing supply of sanitation products and services through the private sector; and, 2) Increase demand for improved sanitation products and services offered by the private sector.

Approach

Research or implementation partners: PATH (Product Innovations throughout Project), Monitor-Deloitte (In-depth Market Research and Business Model Design), Water For People (Initial Product Technical Support) This grant was part of the "Building Demand for Sanitation" (BDS) portfolio of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The former name of PSI was Population Services International - now it is just PSI.

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Capacity developmentMarket developmentPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesBehaviour changePolitical processes and institutional aspectsSpecific to one or several countriesToilets or urinals (user interface)Emptying and transport (non sewered)Enabling environment and institutional strengtheningFaecal sludge treatment processesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPeri-urbanRuralPractitionersInternational NGO

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