amerms workshop 8: microfinance for a sustainable environment (ppt by david kuria)
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FULL TITLE: Sustainable Environment: Using Microfinance and People’s Own Initiatives to Propel Investment in Renewable Energy, Water and Sanitation ROOM: Lenana Hall Translated session: English & French PANEL: Panelist: Mr. Patrick Lumumba, East Africa Watercredit Program Officer, Water.org, Kenya Panelist: Mr. Ziad Al Refai, Executive Director, Jordan Micro Credit Company ''Tamweelcom'', Jordan Panelist: Mr. David Kuria, CEO, Ecotact Limited, Kenya Panelist: Mr. Tamim Islam, Director - Development, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh on behalf of Abser Kamal, Managing Director, Grameen Shakti, BangladeshTRANSCRIPT
The Case of
Sustainable Environment
david kuria
Ikotoilet in Kenya
CEO ecotact Limitedmember, clinton global initiativeafrica social entrepreneur of the year 2009ashoka fellow
Using Micro Finance and People’s Own Initiatives to Propel Investment
in Water and Sanitation
April 8th 2010 KICC, Nairobi
“Sanitation is more important than independence.“
Mahatma Gandhi
inspirational thought
Facts
• Access to safe water is estimated at 89% in urban areas and only 49% in rural
areas in Kenya.
• Sanitation access in urban areas is estimated at 94.8% as compared to 76.6% in
the rural areas.
• As UN-HABITAT reports, Kenya’s slum population is estimated at 71 percent of the
urban population.
Sanitation transformation
Need for
urban landscapesocial transformationtechnological transformationeconomic transformation
transformationurban
The structure commands a monumental pose breaking the monotony of town houses
transformation
social
transformationtechnological
uv treated water point, waterless urinals, bio-digestors, dry toilets, solar energy
shoe shining, snack shops, airtime and newspaper vending, talking walls
economic
kiosksShoe shinning Talking walls
business sense
drivingchange
Partnerships as tool in
governmentgovernment
corporatecorporate mediamedia
civil/NGOscivil/NGOs
micro finance institutionsmicro finance institutions
media role in support of emerging innovations
making sense
Can we harness the private sector to deliver not just the
private good (that which drives household demand)
and the providers good (that which ensures a viable
business) but also the wider public good?
Private good
public goodprovider’s good