Tapping the market: opportunities for domestic investments in sanitation for the poor
This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, four countries where the local private sector already plays a major role in helping rural (and many urban) households construct and maintain sanitation. In Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Tanzania, at least 95 percent of the population with some kind of toilet relied on a private initiative to construct their facilities. Even in highly urbanized Peru, where public utilities have long provided sewerage systems, a quarter of people with some kind of sanitation use privately constructed latrines/toilets and septic tanks. Little systematic information is available about these markets; most information on the private sector in sanitation focuses on large private enterprises that provide wastewater management services.