The tool helps analyze and illustrate the performance of the current technological, revenue model and regulatory conditions on key equity, viability and environmental outcomes.

The tool helps users simulate how different tariff approaches impact the equity and financial viability of the service system. It is designed to accommodate a range of assumptions and tariff considerations (flat vs volumetric) and allows the user to change revenue models by customer categories (residential, commercial, industrial etc.).

Subsidies can be designed to serve the most vulnerable, crowd-in private-finance and nudge the service systems to be more efficient. The tool helps analyze and illustrate the impact that implicit/explicit subsidies have on the service system and enables users to correct regressive and distortionary subsidies and or introduce new progressive ones that are better targeted at the poor. The tool is designed to analyze the impact of subsidies at different levels such as at the household and private and public service providers. It also allows users to estimate the quantum of subsidy incurred/allocated by technology (for ex: sewered vs non-sewered households) and customers (low-income vs non-low-income households).

There is growing evidence that interventions such as targeted subsidies, progressive regulation and innovative technologies can all play a powerful role in helping utilities and service providers do more with less. The tool is designed to guide strategic service planning processes and assists users in developing and iterating on service model approaches by leveraging a range of policy, regulatory and business model levers and building robust plans that are equitable, safe and sustainable.

We assist donors and governments in performing an audit of an upcoming investment platform and equity lens. The tool can be applied on a feasibility report or a detailed project report for an upcoming investment to review the equity, viability and environmental considerations and generate recommendations.

We can help review and illuminate gaps in the systems of city service authorities- for ex, financial management and accounting, operations and asset management etc. and provide a roadmap to strengthen systems to generate the types of dataflows that advance more equitable planning and delivery of sanitation services.