Facilitating Supply Sample Clauses

Facilitating Supply. 4.6.1 What and why As mentioned above safe containment is more important and potentially more difficult than in rural areas where you can dig a pit safely. In urban environments households are less likely to be able to construct a safe toilet on their own and will likely need help from an artisan and need to interact with markets to buy hardware components. Products may not be available in local markets or costs may be too high, programmes should enable access to affordable and appropriate sanitation products and services. Facilitating supply is concerned with access to a range of different products and services suitable services for individual household latrines and shared facilities for those with limited space. In rural CLTS the debate about the timing of such activities is still active. In urban areas, perhaps there is a need to try and do this early on so that once people are triggered a range of options are ready. Knowing the range of different options available is important and publications like Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies are helpful. Identifying the barriers households face and finding ways to remove them was another suggestion given. In addition to availability other challenges can include: - Affordability – costs of materials are often a large barrier. This will vary by location, e.g. costs are higher in cities outside the capital. Smaller towns, particularly in Africa, can suffer from a limited number of markets which means prices can be raised by local suppliers who are operating without competition. Prices in Africa have been found to be on average three times higher than Asia (Xxxxxx, 2016). - Regulatory standards may be unattainably high for the urban poor. - A lack of skilled labour focusing on sanitation products - If suppliers know an NGO is buying products and distributing them they can raise the price. - It is difficult to get providers of both material and financial products to create pro-poor products and services.