Public funding for sanitation: the many faces of sanitation subsidies
Access to safe sanitation would, for some 2.5 billion fellow citizens without it, improve their health, dignity, local environment and economic well-being. While most people would agree that the poor and vulnerable should be supported to obtain sanitation services in ways that promote social equity, are people-centred, participatory and affordable, the debate on how to do it often becomes contentious. Some people propose infrastructure-based hardware subsides; others oppose them. As