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How combining Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and market-based approaches can help. Read more...
Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of sanitation facilities remains a big challenge and a serious health concern. Read more...
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale. Read more...
Have you ever wondered how the average rural girl manages her menstruation, how she experiences menarche (her first period), a new terminology I learned during my participation in a research that aims to test acceptability of re-usable pad in Harbu kebele of Amhara region. Read more...
Sparking growth in the sanitation market in Ethiopia has proven to be quite a roller coaster ride, full of twists, turns, and surprises. Read more...
The April 2019 quarterly held National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform Meeting chaired by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) aimed at forwarding solutions for challenges in the implementation of sanitation marketing, mainly financing options for households and sanitation... Read more...
Those of you who have been paying attention will recall that my first blog-post promised a story about certification for WASH products! At long last, here it is. Read more...
WASH businesses that are attempting to enter both water and sanitation markets worldwide are frequently not what you'd call "business as usual". Many of them are social enterprises started by passionate people who put people before profit and exist primarily to meet a specific challenge. Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
Early results of Transform WASH capacity building activities that will help improve and refine WASH programming. Read more...
Key lessons and strategies to improve sanitation product and service delivery in the region by the USAID Transform project and key stakeholders. Read more...
USAID Transform WASH is helping government establish businesses and create jobs. These businesses serve a potentially huge sanitation market. However, they also have low profit margins and they need substantial support. Transform WASH is bringing new products and business practices to try and improve the prospects of businesses. This video shows the progress of one of the latrine slab production associations established in Shashogo woreda of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) region of Ethiopia .
Read more...Half of the sales agents in the USAID Transform WASH project in Ethiopia are women. Read more...
Due to the absence of active and participatory platforms for coordination, WASH sector actors – woreda head, offices of women and children's affairs, health, education, water, agriculture and finance – have shown a reluctance to implement WASH activities together. Regrettably, this lack of... Read more...
"People used to make fun of me saying, 'Do you really expect us to pay 350 birr for this toy you molded while we can get it for free?'" says Tesfaye Lemanche, Chair of Data Concrete Slab production Association. Read more...
With water quality at source and point of use a major concern, there is renewed interest in Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTSS). Read more...
It's the final day of the design summit, and we're all a bit weary but energized to see the fruits of all this labor. When we started our 10-day journey with MIT, it felt to me like a long time to spend in a workshop. But as the summit progressed, I realized that we could easily spend a month... Read more...