Profitable businesses and positive community change. Read more...
A market-based approach to increasing access to affordable and sustainable hygiene products. Read more...
Equity in sanitation: Empowering women entrepreneurs. Read more...
This is the story of Yeshi, an Ethiopian woman who became a successful sanitation entrepreneur. Read more...
How government, development partners and private businesses can successfully implement market-based sanitation. Read more...
Raising the "decision intelligence" of sanitation customers in Ethiopia Read more...
New free online course on Market-Based Sanitation Read more...
New online course on market-based sanitation tested in blended learning session in Ethiopia. Read more...
Partnering with Ethiopia's private sector for market-based sanitation. Read more...
Lessons from the WASH First COVID-19 Response Project equipping youths with marketable skills in Negelle Arsi and Shashamane districts. Read more...
USAID Transform WASH teams up with Government of Ethiopia partners to visit Wore Illu Woreda. Read more...
What challenges are women in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) businesses facing in Ethiopia? Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. 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...
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...
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...