Transcript business water and sanitation services

Don’t
waste
a good
investment
What is the value of human waste?
Investing in sanitation generates a 1 to 9
return on investment!
In addition to economic growth…
Investing in sanitation and hygiene ensures the
dignity of the population.
We can all contribute to a wealthier and healthier
society.
What Good Dignity Practices can you support to
increase the Gross Domestic Product of your
country?
Return on Investment - HEALTH
INVESTING IN SANITATION AND HYGIENE PAYS HUGE
DIVIDENDS IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
• If everyone had access to adequate sanitation and
water services, the world’s health sectors would
save around $12 billion every year.
• Adverse health impacts of poor sanitation cost India 4,6% of its
GDP.
• Sanitation and hygiene promotion are the most cost effective
of any health intervention - $11 and $3 per DALY averted.
• However, many countries spend less than 0.5% of their GDP on
sanitation and water.
What are your Good Dignity Practices?
• Ensure that the budget allocated for sanitation and
hygiene matches, or exceeds, the costs of poor health
resulting from inadequate services.
• Support programmes that encourage people to adopt
good hygiene practices.
• Convince your colleagues that investments in sanitation
pay off in lower healthcare costs.
• Argue the case that the health of the nation depends on
sanitation.
Return on Investment - PRODUCTIVITY
INVESTING IN SANITATION FREES UP TIME
AND INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY
• Proper sanitation and hygiene bring health benefits;
and a healthy workforce increases productivity.
• Access to toilets and waterpoints frees up considerable time,
especially for women.
• Meeting the MDG sanitation target would free up 20 billion
working days worldwide each year.
• Increased productivity—from more productive workers to more
productive fisheries—depends on better sanitation and water
services.
What are your Good Dignity Practices?
• Recognize the value of people’s time by financing
programmes that aim to increase the number of
household toilets.
• Protect the productivity of vital sectors by safely
managing human waste and avoiding contamination of
water resources, fisheries and agricultural lands.
Return on Investment - EDUCATION
INVESTING IN SANITATION AND HYGIENE LEADS TO
HIGHER LEVELS OF EDUCATION, WHICH IN TURN
BRING HIGHER INCOMES AND BETTER HEALTH
• Higher levels of education are associated with
increased levels of national economic growth.
• Realizing this economic growth potential depends in part on
sanitation and hygiene in schools.
• Meeting the MDG target on sanitation and water would mean
270 million additional days of school attendance each year.
• Sanitation and hygiene facilities are especially important for
girls, and a 1% increase in female education gives 0.37%
increase in economic growth.
What are your Good Dignity Practices?
• Speed progress toward the MDG education targets by
ensuring sanitation in schools.
• Make school sanitation a priority: schools are one of the
best places to teach good hygiene.
• Ensure separate facilities for girls and boys.
Return on Investment - TOURISM
INVESTING IN SANITATION IMPROVES
THE ENVIRONMENT, ATTRACTING MORE
TOURISTS
• Global tourism is a large and growing sector, accounting
for 5% of the world’s economic activity.
• Tourism generates employment – currently around 6 to 7% of
all jobs worldwide.
• Poor sanitary conditions affect safety, comfort, health and
aesthetics and keep tourists away.
WHERE WILL ALL THOSE TOURISTS GO?
What are your Good Dignity Practices?
• Prioritize sanitation, water services, and effective
waste treatment to improve the desirability of your
country as a tourist destination.
• Ensure a clean environment to access the lucrative
ecotourism market.
Return on Investment – JOBS
INVESTING IN SANITATION AND HYGIENE CREATES
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND JOBS
• Providing services and products for households,
schools, public facilities, institutions,
tourism spots, etc… creates jobs and investments,
especially for local and small-scale businesses.
• Sanitation and hygiene promotion is a business with
customers, not beneficiaries.
What are your Good Dignity Practices?
• Explore opportunities for public-private partnerships in
marketing, training, and product development.
• Provide professional business development support for
small-scale sanitation providers.
• Entice new entrepreneurs to enter the market and
boost existing businesses by reducing market barriers.
• Regulate quality and technical standards for the
construction of latrines. Ensure that the collection,
treatment, disposal and reuse of human waste comply
with health and environment standards.
Return on Investment – LEADERSHIP
INVESTING IN SANITATION REQUIRES
ACTION FROM
YOU!
Are you ready to make a good investment?
• By failing to prioritize sanitation and hygiene, we are
failing to invest in an area with substantial return.
• A new mindset about sanitation: from something that
costs money to something that generates income.
What are your commitments?
EXPANDING ACCESS TO SANITATION SERVICES IS NO GREAT
MYSTERY. IT REQUIRES:
• Moving sanitation to the top of the agenda,
• Allocating sufficient resources,
• Establishing a national coordinating body, a country-wide plan
and a transparent monitoring framework,
• Giving priority to underserved populations,
• Recognizing the importance of community involvement, demand
creation and the equal participation of women and men,
• Providing support for small-scale sanitation and hygiene
providers.
DON’T WASTE A GOOD INVESTMENT…
…AND INCREASE THE GDP OF YOUR COUNTRY!