Making Toilets More Affordable for Cambodia's Poor through Microfinance
From 2000 to 2012, access to sanitation in Cambodia s rural areas increased by only 1 percent per year (JMP, 2014). By 2012, 75 percent of rural Cambodians lacked access to improved sanitation, and 66 percent practiced open defecation. Though open...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/09/20336897/making-toilets-more-affordable-cambodias-poor-through-microfinance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20803 |
| Summary: | From 2000 to 2012, access to sanitation
in Cambodia s rural areas increased by only 1 percent per
year (JMP, 2014). By 2012, 75 percent of rural Cambodians
lacked access to improved sanitation, and 66 percent
practiced open defecation. Though open defecation rates are
highest among the poorest rural Cambodians at 86 percent,
they are still quite high even among the richest at 32
percent (CSES, 2011). Lack of access to sanitation imposes
significant economic and social costs on rural Cambodians,
from higher child mortality due to diarrhea, other
fecal-borne diseases, to stunted growth of children. In
Cambodia, extensive previous experience with sanitation
marketing approaches illustrates there is strong household
demand for sanitation and the domestic sanitation market is
capable of meeting it. At the same time, challenges remain
in reaching low-income households that do not have the cash
to meet upfront payment costs to purchase sanitation products. |
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