Earning royalties and repatriating profits can play important roles in ensuring a strong WASH marketplace Read more...
For Ethiopia-based businesses that require imported goods or materials, accessing hard currency through the banking system is one of the biggest challenges they face Read more...
What challenges are women in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) businesses facing in Ethiopia? Read more...
Introducing the plastic toilet slab to the Ethiopian market takes time, patience and tenacity as the USAID Transform WASH project experiences. Read more...
Lessons learned about strengthening the supply chain, stimulating demand and improving the enabling environment. Read more...
Since the coronavirus began spreading throughout the world, few things have been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our activities to develop markets for WASH products and services are no exception. Read more...
Ensuring that sanitation products and services remain affordable through favorable tax policies for consumers and manufacturers is important for... Read more...
Becoming a sanitation entrepreneur against the odds in Ethiopia. Read more...
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...
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...
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...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...