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: White paper

Date: March 23, 2018

Accelerating towards universal access to clean water and sanitation: WaterCredit and beyond

A chapter written for "A Better World- Volume 3", outlining the WaterCredit model and its impacts to date, and its key lessons and challenges.

Document Type: Report

Date: May 12, 2017

​GLAAS external support agency - Water.org highlight (2016)

The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water Report included a featured highlight of Water.org and its impact.

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Document Type: Position paper

Date: April 19, 2017

Financing WASH: How to increase funds for the sector while reducing inequities

This position paper addresses three key issues that receive limited attention in the WASH sector discussions on finance:

  1. Lack of finance for strengthening the enabling environment
  2. Untapped use of micro and blended finance
  3. Inequities in allocation of finance in the sector
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Document Type: Learning brief

Countries: India

Date: Oct. 31, 2016

Water and sanitation microfinance operations in India: A summary of challenges and determinants of success (briefing note)

High level findings from the program in India from 2011-2015 under the PepsiCo 2 grant. This study draws out key lessons and insights from Water.org’s pioneering program in India by examining the enablers and constraints that have shaped the achievements of WaterCredit partners.

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Document Type: Executive summary

Countries: India

Date: Oct. 31, 2016

​Water and sanitation microfinance operations in India: An assessment of challenges and determinants of success

Findings from the Evaluation of the 2011-2015 Pepsi program in India.

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Document Type: Report

Countries: India

Date: Aug. 1, 2016

Income enabling, not consumptive: Association of household socio-economic conditions with safe water and sanitation

This article challenges the assumption that WASH lending is consumptive by highlighting the financial gains people are able to derive to some extent from having water and/or sanitation infrastructure at home by analyzing data on the reallocation of time by WaterCredit borrowers in India.

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Document Type: Learning brief

Countries: India

Date: Nov. 15, 2015

Financing sanitation for the poor: Household level financing to address the sanitation gap in India

Learning brief developed in partnership with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program.

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Document Type: Learning brief

Date: Nov. 1, 2015

​Financing water and sanitation for the poor: The role of microfinance institutions in addressing the water and sanitation gap

This learning brief was developed in collaboration with the World Bank Group's Water and Sanitation Program.

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Document Type: Executive summary

Countries: India

Date: Sept. 1, 2015

​India program impact assessment of the 2008-2011 Pepsico Foundation grant to Water.org

High level findings from 2008-2011 Water.org and PepsiCo program implemented in India.

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