Exploring funding for sustainable sanitation in Mongolia: perceptions from stakeholders and communities

摘要

One of the major challenges for scaling up sustainable sanitation (SuSan) technologies and services isthe sources of finances. Perceptions of stakeholders and communities may trigger them to overcome thischallenge by exploring viable financing mechanisms and sources for widespread replication of SuSantechnologies and services from the local to the global scale. This approach was studied throughhousehold surveys combined with semi-structured key informant interviews among various SuSan usersand institutional stakeholders in the peri-urban Ger areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The results showedthat the existing technologies and services are highly subsidized and still partly shared by thehouseholds. Micro-finance organizations (including banks), government subsidies, private companiesand community fundraising through building social capital may be considered as potential sources offinance for SuSan projects in Mongolia. A re-invented idea of ‘Corporate Responsibility’ is an interestingdirection in which to explore possible financial sources and an effective mechanism for sustainability inthe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector.