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What finance options are available to meet the needs of the poor and marginalised?
Working with micro-finance organisations is one way to meet the needs of the poor, as they have been specifically set up to work with poor communities and have the skills and expertise to innovate, they provide lending schemes, credit lines and other methods to provide households access to finance for sanitation products and services. In addition micro-finance organisations can also work with sanitation entrepreneurs and businesses to enable them to target their products and services to meet the base of the pyramid. However, many communities have managed to build latrine solutions with minimal finance using CLTS approaches. Communities have come together to meet the needs of the poor and marginalised. In other countries e.g. in India, the government offers subsidies for the below poverty households; another method of subsidy is output based aid where households or communities receive a partial or full subsidy on completion of connection to a sewer or for partial building of a latrine.
Please visit the Financing Sanitation section on the Resources page.
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