FINISH

Programme FINISH stands for Financial INclusion Improves Sanitation and Health. Indian NGOs: BISWA (Orissa), IIRD (Rajasthan), ESAF (Maharashtra), SAMBHAV (Madhya Pradesh), Bharathi (Tamil Nadu), RDO Trust (Tamil Nadu) and Dutch NGO WASTE are joining hands with insurance organizations like TATA-AIG (India) and
financial institutions like SNS-REAAL (Netherlands), NHB (India), NABARD (India) etc., to attempt to mobilize funds from end-user households to build 1 million sanitation systems. Since toilets do not generate income directly, there is a reluctance to invest in them. Therefore, innovative micro-credit and financial schemes that combine loans with micro-insurance packages are being tried out to mobilize household investment towards toilets.

FINISH is a public-private partnership project aimed at setting up 1 million sustainable sanitation systems in India.

For more information on FINISH please contact programme director: SA Bhave at
sadanand8bhave@yahoo.co.in