Evaluating the Potential of Container-Based Sanitation : Clean Team in Kumasi, Ghana
This study is focused on Clean Team, a social enterprise providing container-based sanitation (CBS) services in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana with a population of 2.7 million in 2018. Clean Team is owned by Water & Sanitation for the...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/693571550179848944/Evaluating-the-Potential-of-Container-Based-Sanitation-Clean-Team-in-Kumasi-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31294 |
| Summary: | This study is focused on Clean Team, a
social enterprise providing container-based sanitation (CBS)
services in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana with a
population of 2.7 million in 2018. Clean Team is owned by
Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), a
nonprofit partnership between the private sector, civil
society, and academia. Clean Team delivers a single service:
rental and regular servicing of in-house portable toilets,
which includes transporting feces to a centralized treatment
facility but not the processing and reuse of excreta.
Customers find the Clean Team toilet appealing and Clean
Team services are affordable compared to other alternatives.
External subsidies, provided through public and
philanthropic grant funding, have been necessary for Clean
Team to cover its costs. Clean Team has been working, with
support from funders and external advisers, on improving the
efficiency of its services and reducing costs. Going
forward, Clean Team could benefit from a clearer policy
environment, which would allow them to increase the scale of
their operations based on a more cost-efficient business model. |
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