This proposal notes insufficient demand for payment to support current water and sanitation resources. The team recommends focusing on women and children and involving strategic partners to build an Oasis center, a collection of business that are run by local entrepreneurs to provide water, sanitation, health, entertainment, and education (via traditional media and mobile) to the community.
Oasis Center (Aston Business School)
Challenges: Sustainability, Community Involvement, Empowerment, and Buy-In, Affordability, Social, Cultural, and Political, Maintenance, Demand, Financing
Solutions: Private Capital and/or Commercial Financing, Entrepreneurship Focused, Water Access Points (public or private taps), Micro-Finance Institutions and Loans, Economic and Commercial, Business-Led, Public-Private Partnership (Multiple Stakeholders), Financial, Social, Community Centers, Co-Ops, SHG, Payment, Technology, Service and Delivery, Training and Education Focused, Water Access Points, Gender Focused, Community Level Solution