Water and Sanitation

Water and Sanitation for Poverty Reduction

How Can We Address the Global Sanitation Challenge? Insights from “Make a Splash! Toilets for All”

Japan’s maker of water and housing products, LIXIL, has invested in a sustainable social business – SATO – to help bring affordable toilets to those that need them. In 2018, their work on SATO led them to a new partnership, “Make a Splash! Toilets for All” with UNICEF to tackle the global sanitation challenge. How did this partnership evolve and what has been learnt along the way?
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Can Global Partners Collaborate with Local Entrepreneurs and Find Solutions to Urgent Urban Water Challenges in Bangalore?

A recent report predicted that Bangalore might be the next major city to face water shortages. The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) expects Bangalore to run out of groundwater within just two years – this is in addition to the challenges that the booming city already faces in terms of water sanitation.
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Partnerships – All Talk and No Action?

​Does the cost and complexity of partnerships mean that most organisations should focus more, and collaborate less?
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Making a Difference on World Toilet Day 2018: Solving the Sanitation Challenge Through Partnerships

Tokyo based LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, believes that creating solutions for the 2.3 billion people that still don’t have access to basic sanitation is an opportunity to solve one of the world’s greatest social challenges, and to do so sustainably by helping to develop a future market.
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Toilets and Trigger Points: How Can We Unlock the Financial Viability of Sanitation Businesses?

Market-based solutions to sanitation can make a huge difference to the lives of the poorest urban citizens. Creating financially viable businesses is challenging, but the sector has taken real steps forward. This blog presents examples of how we can unlock the potential of the private sector to help drive progress.
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Toilets, Not Poverty Traps

Who will step up to address the very real liquidity gap that stands between poor households and their first toilet in Cambodia? iDE believes that local, friendly latrine businesses are best placed to provide non-interest bearing payment facilitation to households in their community. Read how iDE is seeking to unlock this sanitation supply-led financing at a larger scale.
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Building Scalable and Self-Sustaining Safe Water Enterprises

Jon Shepard shares why he see grounds for optimism in reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal of equitable access to safe, affordable drinking water for all by 2030. In particular the growing number of impact entrepreneurs who are innovating new models for the scalable and sustainable provision of safe water in underserved communities.
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The Global Sanitation Crisis Presents Lucrative Business Opportunities

At the recent World Water Week 2018, the Toilet Board Coalition explored the commercial and social impact opportunities for businesses willing to engage in the sanitation crisis. What exactly is the sanitation economy? And what role can business and government play?
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Boosting On-Site Sanitation in Urban Kenya and Nigeria: Four Consumer Realities

To be able to adequately meet the challenge of sanitation, it is critical for the design and implementation of on-site sanitation systems to understand and account for consumer preferences. Dalberg’s research within poor urban communities points to four lived realities that on-site sanitation providers need to consider before design and rolling out their products globally
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Meet the Longlist: Unilever Global Development Award, Supported by Business Fights Poverty

Business in the Community announce the longlist of companies selected for the The Unilever Global Development Award, supported by Business Fights Poverty. The award recognises businesses that demonstrate positive impact against one or more of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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From Gender Lens to Inclusive Impact Investment

By defining and disaggregating the ways investments empower women, beyond the very rudimentary criteria of solely investing in women, gender lens investing is helping to create frameworks and tools for the industry as a whole.
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Mapping Lives with Refugees

How the Poverty Stoplight, a social innovation that activates the potential of people to assess and eliminate poverty in their families and communities through a self-evaluation tech tool, can help provide more stable and conducive environments for refugees.
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Charting a Course for Robust Private Sector Engagement

MCC share the highlights from their recent Advisory Council meeting in Washington, D.C. The gathering brought together Council members with deep subject area expertise, representing a variety of U.S. industries, to provide specific feedback on agency plans, as well as advice on how MCC can improve its engagement with the business community.
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Making Payment Acceptance a Driver for Financial Inclusion

Mastercard believe that merchant acceptance is key to financial inclusion. Here they discuss advancing payment acceptance at the base of the pyramid and how new product solutions, business models and partnerships can advance both electronic payments and financial inclusion.
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Sustainability Standards Embrace GIS Technology

ISEAL Alliance, who represent the global movement of sustainability standards, share insights on the exponential growth of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainability and how this integrative technology is enabling standards to deliver a more tailored approach to compliance and capacity building, making certification more accessible to smallholders.
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Virtual Exchange: Students Collaborate to Tackle Social Enterprise Challenges in the Middle East

The M²GATE Virtual exchange program pairs students from Michigan & the Middle East to take on social enterprise challenges. Together they collaborate to identify a social problem in the region and come up with an entrepreneurial solution.
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Why Retailers are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) explains how some of the UK’s leading retailers are coming together to strengthen the industry’s response to environmental challenges. Recognising that scale is essential to drive change, the BRC and has come together under the new initiative Better Retail, Better World, to build a better, more prosperous and sustainable world.
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Engaging the Private Sector for Development Results in Indonesia

Nilmini Rubin, Vice President for International Development at Tetra Tech in Jakarta, Indonesia, shares how MCC-funded projects are engaging the private sector in cocoa production and other industries to achieve better development results.
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Are Standards an Effective Tool to Help Improve Production Practices Across Sectors?

Kristin Komives, ISEAL’s Impacts Director, explores how sustainability standards drive the take up of sustainable practices, following the publication of a new research review.
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Affordability – Beyond the Buzzword

Affordability is at the core of much of CDC’s work as impact investors – from affordable electricity to housing, food, healthcare, education and many more. Yet ask someone to define what it means, and you may be met with little more than a blank stare.
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