Fresh Life: scaling urban sanitation with results-based finance (RBF)
Aligned SDGs
- Fresh Life: scaling urban sanitation with results-based finance (RBF)
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
- Fresh Life: scaling urban sanitation with results-based finance (RBF)
- General overview
- Intervention
- Target population
- Location
- Outcome metrics
- Last data update
- Spreadsheet of data
General overview
Stage of development: Early stage
Policy sectors: Health / Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Type of instrument: Payment-by-results (no pre-financing)
Delivery locations: Kenya
Country classification: Lower-middle-income
Expected launch date: Q1 - 2023
Project design process began: March 2021
Intervention
Social or environmental challenge
Currently, 60 million new residents move to urban areas every year. One in four lives in slums, amounting to over 1 billion people. The vast majority (more than 70%) have no access to safe sanitation services and, in effect, are living in their waste. In Kenya this issue is clear and in Nairobi alone, 60% of the population live in informal settlements and 60% of the city remains unconnected to the sewerage system.
Description of the intervention
Sanergy, established in 2011 to address the sanitation value chain in the low-income informal settlements of Nairobi, provides container-based sanitation services, offering an end to end sanitation solution to residents. These waterless sanitation facilities are leased to local residents, who pay a monthly subscription fee to be part of the network. Sanergy collects the waste through a professional logistics team, provides operational and maintenance support, liaises with government to ensure compliance, and guarantees that all waste is safely treated.
Target population
Informal settlements in Nairobi
Location
Country:
- Kenya
Locality:
- Kenya
Outcome metrics
- TBD. May include: # of households reached, volume of waste removed, volume of wase safely treated at treatment plant, sustained use of toilet at 6/12 months.
Last data update
Data for this pipeline project was last updated in April 2022.
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Spreadsheet of data
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