Project Prasaadhan - Business model development for fecal sludge management in rural Bihar, India Developing commercially viable business models for pit emptying and combined service provision for emptying and disposal, treatment and/or reuse, fostering public-private partnerships for faecal sludge management

PSI

PSI and its partners Water for People (WFP), the WASH Institute and 3S Shramik, a local business offering portable toilets, fecal waste removal, transport and treatment services, are working to integrate the development of business models for FSM with their other existing project, “Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements (3SI)” , which is a supply-side strengthening project to increase access and to improved sanitation. Project Prasadhan is working to make pit emptying an end-to-end solution that includes safe disposal and possible reuse into profitable and sustainable businesses. Building off of the 3SI market research and project activities already conducted, and leveraging existing partnerships with the local ministries of health and environment, PSI aims to design a service provision option that is adapted for the 3SI toilet design. PSI is piloting evidence-based business models in stages, including testing technology solutions for onsite, community-based and centralized disposal, treatment and reuse.

Project Prasaadhan - Business model development for fecal sludge management in rural Bihar, India

Mission

1. Develop commercially viable business models for pit emptying and combined service provision for emptying and disposal, treatment and/or reuse. 2. Increase demand for mechanized desludging. 3. Create an enabling environment that fosters public-private partnerships for FSM.

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Research or implementation partners: Water For People ( www.waterforpeople.org/ ), WASH Institute ( www.washinstitute.org/ ) and 3S Shramik ( 3sindia.com/ ) The former name of PSI was Population Services International - now it is just PSI.

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Market developmentPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesPolitical processes and institutional aspectsSpecific to one or several countriesEmptying and transport (non sewered)Treatment of faecal sludgeEnabling environment and institutional strengtheningPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement (WG9)Faecal sludge treatment processesBill & Melinda Gates FoundationRuralPractitionersInternational NGO

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