PSI and Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) conducted in-depth landscape research to better understand the market system for sanitation and what conditions exist in the system to stimulate private sector performance, including public sector support. With the support of Hope Consulting, PSI conducted an analysis of the roles, opportunities, and challenges facing various actors (suppliers, influencers, financiers, etc.) in the market. Research findings were used to design a commercially viable business model for pay-for-use shared sanitation and emptying and transportation of faecal sludge. The model was designed to leverage the efforts by the MCC building their planning to design and build a sewage treatment plant for faecal sludge treatment and eventual reuse for agricultural purposes. Particular emphasis was placed on consumers, specifically women, who are most at risk from lack of safe sanitation access. PSI used the landscape results to identify ways to create an enabling environment for sanitation to ensure sustainable and equitable provision of sanitation services, increased availability of options for faecal sludge disposal, and improvements in the policy and regulatory frameworks that support improvements to urban sanitation.

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Market developmentCitiesPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesPolitical processes and institutional aspectsSpecific to one or several countriesEmptying and transport (non sewered)Enabling environment and institutional strengtheningCities (WG6)Public awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement (WG9)Operation, maintenance and sustainable services (WG10)Faecal sludge treatment processesUK governmentBill & Melinda Gates FoundationUrban (entire city)Urban informal settlements (slums)International NGO

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