Document Type: Report
Countries: India
Date: July 5, 2021
Solving a global challenge from the bottom up: Water and sanitation microlending
Report outlining the need for WSS finance in India.
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Financing helps increase access to safe water and sanitation for people living in poverty. Here's the evidence.
Our evidence, research and data supports the use of financing to achieve universal access to safe water and sanitation. We are committed to sharing what we’ve learned, so we can all see a day where everyone, everywhere has access to safe water and a toilet.
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Document Type: Report
Countries: Bangladesh
Date: Feb. 1, 2021
Engaging banks and financial institutions in Bangladesh for developing WaterCredit products
Business case study to highlight the business impacts of WaterCredit on Bangladesh’s banks, microfinance institutions and cooperatives, and informal financiers.
Document Type: Learning brief
Countries: India
Date: Oct. 1, 2020
Improving access to safe water and sanitation through collaborative efforts and policy-level change
Details of the most significant outcomes related to Water.org’s system level impact work. A key objective was to assess the systems-level influence and impact of its efforts to create an enabling ecosystem for WSS financing that would make WSS capital more affordable and accessible.
Document Type: Case study
Countries: Bangladesh
Date: Aug. 1, 2019
Indirect effect of water supply and sanitation on women entrepreneurs mediated by digital payment
The study explores and identifies advantages of adoption of digital payments by households, comparing the underlying characteristics of borrowers who adopt digital payments with borrowers who don’t.
Document Type: Policy brief
Countries: India
Date: July 26, 2019
OECD: Making blended finance work for water and sanitation (policy highlights)
The publication draws on case studies, interviews, workshops and extensive desk research to examine: (1) successful experiences with blended finance for water-related investments; and (2) the potential to scale up blended finance approaches to apply to a broader range of investment types and contexts.
Document Type: Report
Date: July 26, 2019
GLAAS external support agency - Water.org highlight (2019)
This is a highlight of Water.org in the 2019 GLAAS report.
Document Type: Policy brief
Countries: India, Indonesia
Date: July 26, 2019
OECD: Making blended finance work for water and sanitation and unlocking commercial finance for SDG 6
Despite progress, blended finance has not gained sufficient traction for water-related investments. To encourage further action, this publication provides insights into how development actors can better deploy scarce financial resources and de-risking instruments to incentivise commercial actors to invest in water-related investments in developing countries.
Document Type: White paper
Date: March 21, 2019
Movilización de financiamiento para WASH: construir bien las bases
(Spanish) This paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are being overcome by innovators in the sector.
Document Type: White paper
Date: March 21, 2019
Mobilising finance for WASH: Getting the foundation right (academic journal version)
This paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are being overcome by innovators in the sector. (Academic Journal version- Water, a journal from MDPI)
Document Type: White paper
Date: March 21, 2019
Mobilising finance for WASH: Getting the foundation right
This paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are being overcome by innovators in the sector.
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