Evaluating the Potential of Container-Based Sanitation: SOIL in Haiti (Water Global Practice Case Study)
Summary: World Bank case study of SOIL's container-based sanitation service in Cap-Haïtien, and whether it can scale.
Key Findings
- Open defecation and plastic-bag use in low-income areas of Cap-Haïtien run at 40 to 50 percent against an official urban Haiti figure of 8 percent, a gap of five to six times.
- The service is a rental model: SOIL retains ownership of the toilets and households pay a monthly fee of 200 gourdes.
- Scale-up targets were about 3,500 toilets in 16 neighborhoods by 2020 against an ambition of 60,000 households.
- Cover material supply is not guaranteed long term, which the study identifies as a risk to operations at scale.
Full Description
A World Bank Water Global Practice case study of SOIL's container-based sanitation service in Haiti, which rents household toilets on a monthly fee and composts the excreta. It examines the service model, its costs and its regulatory position, and asks what would be required to scale it. The study is useful both on container-based sanitation as a method and as a record of how far actual sanitation conditions in low-income urban neighborhoods depart from official national figures.
How to cite
World Bank, 2019, Evaluating the Potential of Container-Based Sanitation: SOIL in Haiti (Water Global Practice Case Study), accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/wb-2019-container-based-sanitation-soil