WSSCC launches the Global Sanitation Fund

 

Responding to the sanitation scandal: WSSCC is launching on 14 March 2008 in Geneva the Global Sanitation Fund, the first global financing mechanism to increase expenditure on sanitation and hygiene.

Forty percent of the world's population - 2.6 billion people - do not have access to basic sanitation. The Millennium Development Goal target of halving the number of people without access to sanitation is the furthest from being achieved. However, the estimated annual cost for attaining this goal is only $ 9.5 billion. If sustained, the same investment could ensure basic sanitation for the whole world in one or two decades. To help reach this target, the WSSCC is launching the Global Sanitation Fund, one of the major initiatives of the International Year of Sanitation 2008.

To learn more about the fund please visit the Global Sanitation Fund page.