Can an ambitious public-private partnership lead to the successful delegation of rural water supply management to small businesses for an entire country in sub-Saharan Africa? Benin offers a test case.
According to the World Health Organization/United Nations International Children’s Fund Joint Monitoring Program, 494 million people practice open defecation globally.
Ethiopia has made remarkable progress toward meeting its Sustainable Development Goal 6 commitments, going from just 11 percent rural sanitation coverage in 2000 to 71 percent in 2017.
As of 2020, Vietnam had the highest levels of rural water coverage among any country of comparable economic level, with coverage equivalent to countries with two to three times its per capita Gros