Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya
Improving access to safe and affordable sanitation facilities is a global health priority that is essential for meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. To promote the use of improved sanitation in rural and low-income settings, plastic latrine slabs provide a simple option for upg...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6726948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31392946 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0888 |
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author | Peletz, Rachel Kisiangani, Joyce Ronoh, Patrick Cock-Esteb, Alicea Chase, Claire Khush, Ranjiv Luoto, Jill |
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description | Improving access to safe and affordable sanitation facilities is a global health priority that is essential for meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. To promote the use of improved sanitation in rural and low-income settings, plastic latrine slabs provide a simple option for upgrading traditional pit latrines. The International Finance Corporation/World Bank Selling Sanitation program estimated that plastic slabs would have a 34% annual growth, with a market size of US$2.53 million in Kenya by 2017. In this study, we examined the commercial viability of these plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya by evaluating a financing and distribution model intervention, documenting household slab sales to date, and assessing consumer exposure and perceptions. We also determined household willingness to pay through a real-money auction with 322 households. We found that no households in our study area had purchased the plastic slabs. The primary barriers to slab sales were limited marketing activities and low demand compared with the sales price: households were willing to pay an average of US$5 compared with a market price of US$16. Therefore, current household demand for the plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya is too low to support commercial distribution. Further efforts are required to align the price of plastic latrine slabs with consumer demand in this setting, such as additional demand creation, product financing, and public sector investment. |
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spelling | pubmed-67269482019-09-08 Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya Peletz, Rachel Kisiangani, Joyce Ronoh, Patrick Cock-Esteb, Alicea Chase, Claire Khush, Ranjiv Luoto, Jill Am J Trop Med Hyg Articles Improving access to safe and affordable sanitation facilities is a global health priority that is essential for meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. To promote the use of improved sanitation in rural and low-income settings, plastic latrine slabs provide a simple option for upgrading traditional pit latrines. The International Finance Corporation/World Bank Selling Sanitation program estimated that plastic slabs would have a 34% annual growth, with a market size of US$2.53 million in Kenya by 2017. In this study, we examined the commercial viability of these plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya by evaluating a financing and distribution model intervention, documenting household slab sales to date, and assessing consumer exposure and perceptions. We also determined household willingness to pay through a real-money auction with 322 households. We found that no households in our study area had purchased the plastic slabs. The primary barriers to slab sales were limited marketing activities and low demand compared with the sales price: households were willing to pay an average of US$5 compared with a market price of US$16. Therefore, current household demand for the plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya is too low to support commercial distribution. Further efforts are required to align the price of plastic latrine slabs with consumer demand in this setting, such as additional demand creation, product financing, and public sector investment. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2019-09 2019-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6726948/ /pubmed/31392946 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0888 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Peletz, Rachel Kisiangani, Joyce Ronoh, Patrick Cock-Esteb, Alicea Chase, Claire Khush, Ranjiv Luoto, Jill Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title | Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title_full | Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title_fullStr | Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title_short | Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya |
title_sort | assessing the demand for plastic latrine slabs in rural kenya |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6726948/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31392946 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0888 |
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