Maintaining Quality at Scale for Sanitation

ARUNESH SINGH, SATYA PRAKASH CHOUBEY,GENEVIEVE KELLY, APRAJITA SINGH

Leveraging existing reporting mechanisms with MFIs in Bihar, India

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India: Of 1 Billion open defecator across the globe; 600 million live in India

Bihar (The Intervention State): Population: 104

million 88.7% Rural 73 % of rural Bihar

(67.4 Million) defecates in open

Fragmented supply chain for toilets

Product gap

Toilet lie low in the hierarchy of need

Finance Liquidity and Affordability

CONTEXT

• 3SI: Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements through Supply Side Strengthening

• $8.5m Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Additional funding Unilever Foundation / Domex Toilet Academy

• PATH, Water For People and Monitor/Deloitte• August 2012 – 5 Years

PROJECT OVERVIEW

PROBLEM CONTEXTHow does 3Si maintain quality at scale without increasing existing M & E costs substantially?

SOLUTION HYPOTHESISLeverage existing reporting mechanisms of its partner MFIs

Definition of Quality (what are we measuring)

–Time to delivery–Not at risk of contaminating

nearby water sources (not greater than 10 feet)–Depth of the pit (not greater

than 5 feet)

M & E CHALLENGES IN SCALING UP

Ensuring Quality

Integrated MIS

Operational and Financial

Sustainability

Intervention – Catalysing private sector credit supply

PSI Wholesale Lending Institution

MFI Consumer

Consumer

Consumers

MFI

MFI

LEVELS OF MONITORINGDirect Sales -

EnterpriseSales through Loan - FWWB

“Sample” Validation for Toilet

Construction by Helpline

“Sample” Confirmed Loan Utilization

data will share to TA for Toilet Quality Check

Toilet Completed data sharing to TA

for Toilet Quality

Check

FWWB - Validate Loan Utilization

and share with PSI

TA : Technical Associate

EVOLVING MONITORING CHALLENGESModel B (linking with sanitation finance)

3Si

Fund Manager

MFIs

Consumer Loans

Non 3Si Business Enterprises

3Si Business Enterprises

Construct Toilets

Consumer Financing

Oct-Dec 2014 Jan-Mar 2015 Apr-Jun 20150

10

20

30

40

50

5

19

25

1

1622

Applications Raised

Loans Disbursed

Enterprise Financing

Oct-Dec 2013 Jan-Mar 2014 Apr-Jun 2014 Jul-Sep 2014 Oct-Dec 2014 Jan-Mar 2015 Apr-Jun 2015 Jul-Sep 20150

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

1000

3 30 66

223144

268

480

453 21 22

15391

250 229

38

Applications Raised

Loans Disbursed

SDS : Applications : 1219 Disbursed : 770

CDOT : Applications : 40 Disbursed : 37

SDS : Applications : 19 Disbursed : 16

Kinara : Applications : 05 Disbursed : 01

CDOT : Applications : 25 Disbursed : 22

: 49

: 39

: 1259

: 807

PRELIMINARY FINDINGSTime to Delivery : Significantly decreased from previous quarters. On an Average; in Q1 (2014) : 70 days took for completing toilets & in Q3 (2015) : 14 days.

Distance of Pit from Water Source : Not in control, due to space constraints.

Depth of Pit : Toilets meeting the quality criteria of up to 5 feet has significantly increased from previous quarters from currently up to 97%.

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