We have drafted a white paper titled “HWTS and Markets”, and would like your feedback, experience, and valued input to improve the paper. We plan to incorporate your feedback and produce a published version by mid-2021.
Have your say by sharing your experience and expertise to include in the final version. We will accept feedback until February 28, 2021.
- Join us here on the discussion forum to talk about the content in the White Paper and add your perspectives on critical questions
- Respond to a survey with key discussion questions
- Download the draft and send your comments to network@hwts.info
- Email us if you’re interested in joining a facilitated feedback session network@hwts.info. If there’s enough interest from members, then we will facilitate an online discussion session to hear and incorporate your input.
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The HWTS and Markets white paper isn't accessible from the link you have provided. Can you check the link?
Ditto!
@Harriette Purchas You can find the links at the bottom of that page. Here are the direct links:
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A few thoughts...
It would be be useful to see a green paper before a white paper, to see how the proposals evolved. There has been considerable work on market-based approaches, both in sanitation and in humanitarian contexts (e.g.
OTÁLORA, C.G. and JACOB, J., 2019. GUIDANCE ON MARKET BASED PROGRAMMING FOR HUMANITARIAN WASH PRACTITIONERS [online]. Geneva, Switzerland. Available from: https://wrc.washcluster.net/sites/default/files/2019-09/SC_WASH Market Based Programming_2019.pdf.)
plus lots of work on different finance approaches to address market failures
EVANS, B.E., VOORDEN, C. van der, and PEAL, A., 2009. Public Funding for Sanitation. The many faces of sanitation subsidies [online]. Geneva, Switzerland: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and World Health Organization. Available from: https://www.wsscc.org/media/resources/public-funding-sanitation-many-faces-sanitation-subsidies.
Obviously some good work has gone into the white paper, but it would be good to see how it was developed - showing the processes behind it.
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There is also a presumption that HHWT is "good" and perhaps an acknowledgement of where it should and should not be promoted should be more prominent. This is similar to the ecosan movement a decade ago, which promoted ecosan in places where it was not suitable. So the first question is not about how or if to use a market approach for HHWT, but to ascertain if HHWT should be used in the first place. This will help avert failures of an approach that can be useful, but in the right place. This partly due to skewed research, where is it easier in a short, focused study to look at a HHWT device and measure water quality outcomes, than to look at the much more complex challenge of a networked water supply. Robust research may be obscuring more relevant studies (see SCHÖN, D.A., 1982. The reflective practitioner. How Professionals Think in Action. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.). A step in a marketing approach is to establish where/ who/ what the market is, before promoting a product or service. Having some good guidelines on where this approach could be used would be very useful.
Thanks @Brian Reed , I appreciate your thoughtful feedback. I'll admit that I needed to look up the definition of a 'green paper', after reading your comment.
Our process has been to have one of our team lead a review of literature coupled with implementation experience with social enterprises and subsidized models to draft the paper for reactions, input, and feedback.
Your point is well taken in terms of HWTS being a good solution to improve water quality and water service delivery. We do play a role in contextualizing where HWTS provides a valuable benefit to users. We'll review the links you've sent to see if there's scope in this document to clarify further or whether that fits into the scope of other HWTS Network initiatives and resources.
Thank you!
Apologies for the British use of a "green paper"! I quite like the format of rapid action learning
https://sanitationlearninghub.org/research-type/rapid-topic-exploration/
as these bring a higher degree of relevance to a literature review than a more systematic, scientific approach.