Domestic Private Sector Participation in Peru : Sanitation Markets at the Bottom of the Pyramid--A Win-Win Scenario for Government, the Private Sector, and Communities
Peru has benefitted from macroeconomic stability and growth in the last few years. At the same time, it also presents important contradictions in terms of unresolved access to basic sanitation. This is characterized by: a) an on-going gap that refl...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/16647151/domestic-private-sector-participation-peru-sanitation-markets-bottom-pyramid-win-win-scenario-government-private-sector-communities http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17230 |
| Summary: | Peru has benefitted from macroeconomic
stability and growth in the last few years. At the same
time, it also presents important contradictions in terms of
unresolved access to basic sanitation. This is characterized
by: a) an on-going gap that reflects the high levels of
inequity between rural and urban coverage, b) unused
services and low levels of customer satisfaction with
current sanitation solutions, and c) unsustainable and
inefficient public investments. Despite of the important
infrastructure investments of the last 20 years, significant
gaps remain, as well as the need to address quality and
sustainable sanitation service. Moreover, it has not
impacted the improvement of health and environment-related
indicators. According to the National Statistics Institute,
while national sanitation coverage has increased by 20
percent (1993-2007), in the same period the percentage of
prevalence of chronic malnutrition in children under five
years old has decreased by 9 percent and that of diarrhea by
only 5 percent. |
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