Description
USAID Transform WASH is a USAID-funded activity implemented by Population Services International in partnership with SNV, Plan International, and IRC WASH. The 6-year project aims to improve WASH outcomes in Ethiopia by increasing access to and sustained use of a broader range of affordable WASH products and services, with a substantial focus on sanitation. The program’s goal is to reduce preventable deaths and illness in Ethiopia due to diarrheal disease, particularly among children under five. To achieve its vision, the USAID Transform WASH activity follows a holistic market development approach.
Strategy
Research Reports
- An Assessment of Health Extension Workers and Sales Agents in Creating Demand for Sanitation Products and Services
- Financing Practices and Options for Sanitation Products and Services: Findings from SNNPR, Ethiopia
- Urban Sanitation Assessment Report
Learning Notes
- USAID Transform WASH – Eight Years in Review
- Public Private Collaboration in Sanitation Markets – Global Scan and Potential for Ethiopia
- Assessment of Field Performance and Acceptance of the SATO Pan in Ethiopia
- Products and Services – Innovations and Sales Performance
- Door to Door Sales of Toilet Installation Services – Lessons from Ethiopia
- Approaches to Sanitation Business Development Support at District Level
- Reaching Universal Access with Market-Based Sanitation
- Piloting Smart and Targeted Sanitation Subsidies
- Business Models
- Ethiopia’s Business Environment and How It Influences WASH Market Development
- Women as Business Leaders
- An Assessment of Sanitation Financing Options for Enterprises and Households
- An Assessment of Demand Creation of Sanitation Products and Services
- Should Sanitation be Taxed?
- Case Study: Strengthening the One WASH National Program for Effective WASH Implementation, Aleta Wondo Woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia
- Facilitating the Introduction of New Sanitation Products into the Ethiopian Market
- Building Government of Ethiopia Capacity to Manage Effective WASH Programming
- Financing for Improved Sanitation: Case Study from SNNPR, Ethiopia
Blogs
- Towards a #PeriodFriendlyWorld
- Ethiopia’s Path to Universal WASH Coverage
- From 16% to 47%
- WASH Stakeholders Unite
- Saving Lives
- Strengthening Women’s Role for a Sustainable Sanitation Transformation
- Revolutionizing USAID transform wash data management: The power of digital innovation for informed decision-making.
- Introducing The GEBI App: Strengthening Small Businesses And Entrepreneurs With Digital Technology.
- WASH Products, Made in Ethiopia: Great for Health and Good for the Economy
- Lead with Problems, End with a Sale: Raising the “Decision Intelligence” of Sanitation Customers in Ethiopia
- Connecting Market-Based Sanitation Stakeholders in the Age of COVID
- Sanitation Innovation Through User-Centered Design in Ethiopia
- Innovation for No-Touch Handwashing: Ethiopian Industrial Designers Reach for Scale
- What it Takes to Build a Sanitation Market: USAID Transform WASH and the Plastic Toilet Slab in Ethiopia
- Small Business and WASH in the Age of Coronavirus
- How and 8th Grade Dropout Sanitation Entrepreneur is Saving Lives
- How to Create Demand for Sanitation Products and Services
- Should Sanitation be Taxed?
- What it Takes to get Sanitation Solutions to Market
- How Poor Installation Created New Business Opportunities
- Woreda WASH Team’s Renewed Energy to Increase Demand for Sanitation and Hygiene
- How to use Human Centered Design (HCD) to build prototypes for WASH
- Let’s Design Our Own Solutions! Not for the Community but with the Community
- Moving from Information Gathering and Idea Generation to Concept Selection
Short-term Training Curriculum Modules
- Basic water, sanitation and hygiene practice
- Read and interpret working drawing and specifications
- Carry out reinforced concrete work
- Preparing bill of quantity
- Develop morality, professional ethics and patriotism
- Develop business practice
Advanced short-term training curriculum
- Basic water, sanitation and hygiene practice [advanced]
- Read and interpret working drawing and specifications
- Setting out and excavation
- Carry out reinforced concrete work
- Block production, lay masonry unit and finishing work
- Installation of sewerage system, water supply line and sanitary appliance
- Preparing bill of quantity
- Develop morality, professional ethics and patriotism
- Develop business practice
News
- Strengthening WASH Business in Ethiopia: Financing for Small Enterprises
- Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Manufacturing Challenges and their Impact on Market Development
- Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Start-Up Requirements and their Impact on WASH Market Development
- Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Tariffs and Taxes on Sanitation Products
- Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Foreign Business Owners
- Strengthening WASH Businesses in Ethiopia: Access to Foreign Exchange
Webinars
- Meeting Consumers Where They Are: Evolving Business Models for Market-Based Sanitation in Ethiopia
- Transforming Sanitation Markets: Key Learnings from Ethiopia and the Global Implications