To overcome these challenges, the municipal authority has started providing FSM services to people in Benapole since April 2018 with the support from SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. In this implementation process, the municipality and SNV are playing the following key roles:
• Increase demand and willingness to pay among the population for safe sanitation facilities and safe desludging services
• Viable business models for sanitation services targeting different consumer segments develop, test and establish
• City-wide service delivery framework and enabling conditions developed and adopt by local authorities
• Financially viable, socially acceptable and environmentally safe treatment and re-use technologies introduce, test and integrate in investment plans
• Progress and lessons learned from the program will be systematically documented, shared and promoted with key sector stakeholders at local and national level.
