Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions

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This Discussion Paper is published as a background document for World Water Forum 6 (WWF6, Marseille, 12-17 March 2012). Within WWF6, IRC and WSUP are leading and coordinating Target Group CS2.7, “Pro-poor finance solutions for water and sanitation”, within the CS2 area “Financing Water for All”.
Identifying and implementing water and sanitation financing solutions that genuinely reach the poorest remains a key challenge in low-income countries worldwide, in both rural and urban contexts. Nonetheless, effective solutions certainly exist: some wellknown and widely used, some more recent and innovative. This paper focuses on a group of solutions that we judge to be especially useful, in each case exploring real-world case studies that illustrate how practical difficulties have been overcome in order to achieve positive progress and genuinely improve water
and sanitation services for the poor.