Making Toilets More Affordable for Cambodia's Poor through Microfinance
2014
World Bank Group
From 2000 to 2012, access to sanitation in Cambodia s rural areas increased by only 1 percent per year (JMP, 2014). By 2012, 75 percent of rural Cambodians lacked access to improved sanitation, and 66 percent practiced open defecation. Though open defecation rates are highest among the poorest rural Cambodians at 86 percent, they are still quite high even among the richest at 32 percent (CSES, 2011). Lack of access to sanitation imposes significant economic and social costs on rural Cambodians, from higher child mortality due to diarrhea, other fecal-borne diseases, to stunted growth of children. In Cambodia, extensive previous experience with sanitation marketing approaches illustrates there is strong household demand for sanitation and the domestic sanitation market is capable of meeting it. At the same time, challenges remain in reaching low-income households that do not have the cash to meet upfront payment costs to purchase sanitation products.
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