Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya
Assessing the Demand for Plastic Latrine Slabs in Rural Kenya
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DOI：
10.4269/ajtmh.18-0888
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
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3.3
通讯作者：
Luoto, Jill
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作者：
Peletz, Rachel;Kisiangani, Joyce;Luoto, Jill
改善获得安全和负担得起的卫生设施是一项全球卫生优先事项，对于实现联合国的可持续发展目标至关重要。为了在农村和低收入环境中推广使用经过改进的卫生设施，塑料厕所板材为升级传统坑式厕所提供了一种简单的选择。国际金融公司/世界银行销售卫生项目估计，塑料板的年增长率将达到34%，到2017年，肯尼亚的市场规模将达到253万美元。在这项研究中，我们通过评估融资和分销模式干预，记录到目前为止的家庭厕所板材销售，以及评估消费者的暴露和看法，检查了这些塑料厕所板材在肯尼亚农村地区的商业可行性。我们还通过322户家庭的真实货币拍卖确定了家庭支付的意愿。我们发现，在我们的研究区没有家庭购买塑料板。销售板砖的主要障碍是营销活动有限，与销售价格相比需求较低：家庭愿意平均支付5美元，而市场价格为16美元。因此，目前肯尼亚农村家庭对塑料厕所板砖的需求太低，无法支持商业分销。在这种情况下，需要进一步努力使塑料厕所板材的价格与消费者需求保持一致，例如创造额外的需求、产品融资和公共部门投资。
Improving access to safe and affordable sanitation facilities is a global health priority that is essential for meeting the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. To promote the use of improved sanitation in rural and low-income settings, plastic latrine slabs provide a simple option for upgrading traditional pit latrines. The International Finance Corporation/World Bank Selling Sanitation program estimated that plastic slabs would have a 34% annual growth, with a market size of US$2.53 million in Kenya by 2017. In this study, we examined the commercial viability of these plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya by evaluating a financing and distribution model intervention, documenting household slab sales to date, and assessing consumer exposure and perceptions. We also determined household willingness to pay through a real-money auction with 322 households. Wefound that no households in our study area had purchased the plastic slabs. The primary barriers to slab sales were limited marketing activities and low demand compared with the sales price: households were willing to pay an average of US$ 5 compared with a market price of US$16. Therefore, current household demand for the plastic latrine slabs in rural Kenya is too low to support commercial distribution. Further efforts are required to align the price of plastic latrine slabs with consumer demand in this setting, such as additional demand creation, product financing, and public sector investment.