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| Content Provider | MDPI |
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| Author | Tilley, Elizabeth Günther, Isabel |
| Abstract | In the developing world, having access to a toilet does not necessarily imply use: infrequent or non-use limits the desired health outcomes of improved sanitation. We examine the sanitation situation in a rural part of South Africa where recipients of novel, waterless “urine-diverting dry toilets” are not regularly using them. In order to determine if small, conditional cash transfers (CCT) could motivate families to use their toilets more, we paid for urine via different incentive-based interventions: two were based on volumetric pricing and the third was a flat-rate payment (irrespective of volume). A flat-rate payment (approx. €1) resulted in the highest rates of regular (weekly) participation at 59%. The low volumetric payment (approx. €0.05/L) led to regular participation rates of only 12% and no increase in toilet use. The high volumetric payment (approx. €0.1/L) resulted in lower rates of regular participation (35%), but increased the average urine production per household per day by 74%. As a first example of conditional cash transfers being used in the sanitation sector, we show that they are an accepted and effective tool for increasing toilet use, while putting small cash payments in the hands of poor, largely unemployed populations in rural South Africa. |
| File Size | 921600 |
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| e-ISSN | 20711050 |
| DOI | 10.3390/su8101070 |
| Journal | Sustainability |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Volume Number | 8 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2016-10-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | sanitation urine South Africa CCT incentives economics cash transfer |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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