Activities

Private Producer’s Entrepreneurship in WATSAN Sector

Knowledge can develop by gaining experience and made explicit by documenting it, through which it can be in use to others. In the donor dependent organizations, particularly in the NGO Sector “cost recovery mechanism” is being gradually highlighted in many of their programmes as the donors and also the institution itself seeking for self-reliant and economically vibrant. The NRC has picked up the overall picture of private producers entreprenurship in the sector by compilation of case studies which revealed the budding success story, the glare of which has only started casting its brilliance in the dark chapter of safe water supply and sanitation. An attempt has been made to unveil the status of the sector to the socitey through the study. The role of NGOs and donors in boosting people’s standardof living has been reflected in the report; special emphasis on people’s own initiatives achieved through private sector has been focused. It also reveals changes in livelihood in the society; those who were either idle or down-trodden earlierhave increased their earnings. The source of earning through sales of sanitary ware and marketing efforts to generate people’s willingness to improve their sanitation status are indeed, laudable. Their attempt have also proven that market could be generated even in a poor economy and in such a weak sector which the government could never even conceive of before. It clarifies the stand of NGOs and Village Sanitation Centres (VSC) which were maneuvered tactfully by adaptation of the trade in an open competitive market based upon business ventures. This effort of NRC could be an important learning for the sector and of course it will scaling up the idea of private producers entreprenurship.