Philippines : Can Subsidized Microloans Increase Toilet Ownership and Use for Poor Households?
The World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund supported a randomized controlled trial from 2015-2018 to assess the extent to which subsidized microloans can enable households to build and use improved toilets. The loans, which carried zero inte...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/206551606973893265/Philippines-Can-Subsidized-Microloans-Increase-Toilet-Ownership-and-Use-for-Poor-Households http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34897 |
| Summary: | The World Bank’s Strategic Impact
Evaluation Fund supported a randomized controlled trial from
2015-2018 to assess the extent to which subsidized
microloans can enable households to build and use improved
toilets. The loans, which carried zero interest, included
toilet installation and were offered to poor beneficiaries
who also received sanitation behavior change promotion as
part of a social safety net program. The large financial
subsidy led to modestly higher coverage of improved toilets,
better toilet quality, and greater satisfaction, while the
small subsidy did not improve access to improved sanitation.
Among those who took out the subsidized loans, 59 percent
already had improved toilets, which explains the limited
effects on improved sanitation and open defecation. Overall,
these findings suggest that subsidy programs hold promise,
but need to be better targeted. |
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