Zero subsidy strategies for accelerating access to rural water and sanitation services

摘要

Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Household-Led Water Supply (HLWS) are zero subsidynapproaches to water and sanitation service provision that have been recently piloted in Zambia.nThe increases in access to sanitation and toilet usage levels achieved in one year under CLTSnwere far greater than any achieved in subsidised programmes of the past. Similarly, HLWS hasnshown that rural households are willing to invest in their own infrastructure and that theyncan increase coverage of safe water without external hardware subsidy. The promotion ofnself-sufficiency rather than dependency is a key component of both approaches, as is the focusnon the development of sustainable services rather than the external provision of infrastructure.nZero subsidy strategies have the potential to deliver far more rapid increases in service coveragenand higher levels of sustainability than the conventional subsidised approaches that predominatenin low-income countries.