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Tapping the Markets - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor (Paperback)
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Tapping the Markets - Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor (Paperback)
Series: Directions in Development
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What needs to be done to enable the domestic private sector to
expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved
sanitation to the poor in developing countries? Is an expanded role
constrained because there is limited market potential, or is the
problem the fact that business models cannot support an expansion
of supply? Are government policies and the investment climate
making expansion too costly or risky for enterprises to scale up
their operations? This book presents the results of a detailed
examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector
in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in
rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy and
investment climate that affect the response to these opportunities.
It is based on case studies conducted in Bangladesh, Benin,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Peru and Tanzania. The results of focus group
discussions with poor households, surveys of enterprises directly
serving poor households and analysis of the supply chains that
support them provide insights into the nature of demand for
services, the prevailing business models adopted by enterprises and
the impact of policy on decisions to invest or expand operations.
The issues preventing the large market for providing poor and
nonpoor households with piped water and on-site sanitation differ
in important ways. This book therefore addresses the two sectors
separately. The first part of the book analyses the challenges
facing domestic providers of piped water in Bangladesh, Benin and
Cambodia, countries where very different models of private
provision have emerged in response to differing approaches taken by
government. The second part analyses providers of on-site
sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru and Tanzania,
where the models are similar and all providers face demand- and
supply-side challenges that are largely unaffected by government
policy. This book will be of interest to governments and their
multilateral and bilateral development partners, as well as local
and international nongovernment agencies concerned with reducing
the heavy toll that lack of access to safe water and hygienic
sanitation is imposing on poor people around the world. It proposes
recommendations that each of these actors can adopt to harness the
entrepreneurial capabilities of the domestic private sector to
address this continuing challenge.
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