On Thursday, January 23rd at 8:00 – 9:00am MST Water for People will host a Sanitation Microfinance Google Hangout with an insightful panel that includes:

Christie Chatterley – Water For People Sanitation as a Business Consultant and Lead Author of the Report
Kimberly Lemme – Water For People Program Finance and Contributing Author
Elizabeth Toder – Water.org Senior Manager WaterCredit Advisory Services
Begashaw Woldemichael – Microfinance Transparency Pricing Data Manager
Nelun de S. Wijeyeratne [Moderator] – About Microfinance

Several of the key insights from the study will be discussed such as:
• How can strong sanitation financing partners be identified?
• How can sanitation financing be incentivized?
• How should donor funds be targeted to best support sanitation microfinance?
• How can implementing agencies exit sanitation microfinance programs once they are successfully started?
• How should sanitation microfinance be monitored?

To access the study which forms the basis of this discussion, Microfinance as a Potential Catalyst for Improved Sanitation, please follow the link: www.waterforpeople.org/media-center/orga...rove-sanitation.html

Please see www.susana.org/lang-en/news/events?view=...peitem&type=1&id=244 for more details and an external link to the hangout.

(Posted by Roslyn)