Investing in Resilient Sanitation Systems: Insights from World Water Week 2025
Sasha with the WASH dream team (left to right): Elizabeth W. Mururi (Fresh Life), Sasha Kramer (SOIL), Wali Mwalugongo (Fresh Life), Syeda Zaki (Grand Challenges Canada)
This week in Stockholm, the global water and sanitation community gathered for World Water Week, hosted by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). It has been a week of powerful conversations, new partnerships, and a shared commitment to building resilient systems that deliver safe water and sanitation for all.
On Wednesday, SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, joined colleagues Elizabeth W. Mururi, MPRSK (Fresh Life), Syeda Zaki (Grand Challenges Canada), Annemarie Mastenbroek (Aqua for All), and Louis Boorstin (The Osprey Foundation) for a conversation exploring how Results-Based Financing (RBF) can transform WASH service delivery. Together, the panel highlighted how innovative financing approaches can incentivize governments and service providers to deliver sanitation that is not only sustainable but also resilient to climate and economic shocks.
Later in the day, we kept the energy going with another roundtable discussion focused on the emerging potential of carbon revenues for sanitation, joined by Rémi Kaupp, Elizabeth Mururi, and Zach White. This dialogue opened space to consider how carbon finance could become a critical driver in scaling access to container-based sanitation, offering both climate and public health benefits.
For SOIL, these conversations represent more than ideas—they connect directly to our work in Haiti. We are working hand-in-hand with partners and government institutions to integrate container-based sanitation into national health frameworks, while also exploring how carbon revenues and performance-based financing can sustain services at scale.
As World Water Week comes to a close, we leave Stockholm feeling inspired and energized. The challenges of financing sanitation at scale are real, but the creativity, expertise, and solidarity we witnessed this week give us hope. Together, with our global partners, we are advancing a vision where safe, dignified sanitation is accessible to all—protecting public health, strengthening resilience, and fighting climate change in the process.
With gratitude to our partners who joined these important conversations: World Water Week | Fresh Life | Grand Challenges Canada | Aqua for All | The Osprey Foundation | Loowatt Ltd | Container Based Sanitation Alliance | Sanima | Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) | and so many others who continue to push this work forward.