SOIL Featured in Le Nouvelliste: Scaling Climate-Resilient Sanitation in Haiti
Vic Hinterlang / planting seedlings in the SOIL experimental garden
SOIL and the Outcomes for Change Fund was recently featured in an article by Le Nouvelliste.
Launched in 2022 by IDB Lab, the Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) is the first results-based fund in a fragile island state (Haiti). This cutting-edge funding mechanism is designed to scale effective development strategies and drive meaningful change, paying based on results rather than activities.
To date, OCF has launched three pilot projects, including the scaling up of SOIL's EkoLakay sanitation service. In October 2022, the Vitol Foundation joined IDB Lab to provide safe sanitation services to families in Northern Haiti through the EkoLakay service.
Since the launch of the OCF “Paying for Sanitation Success”, EkoLakay increased its monthly toilet installations from 51 to 134 households, expanding access to improved sanitation by more than 25% in target communities, exceeding the initial project goals.
In preparation for the next scaling phase by April 2025, IDB Lab and its partners are working to secure additional funding from a mix of public and private donors. This second phase will build on the pilot’s cost benchmarks and introduce additional strategies to achieve economies of scale, doubling EkoLakay's subscriber base to over 8,000 households.
This effort will help Haiti’s national water and sanitation agency (DINEPA) combat open defecation and establish a climate-resilient sanitation chain across the country.
Read more about SOIL and the Outcomes for Change Fund in the article by Le Nouvelliste here.