Bicycle Model Yields Rich Learning Despite Limited Results: Microentrepreneurs Try to Sell New Water Treatment Product in Rural India

PATH’s Safe Water Project is implementing innovative methods to enable commercial enterprises to produce, distribute, sell, and maintain effective household water treatment and storage (HWTS) products for low-income populations in multiple developing countries around the world. This project brief and fact sheet summarize the findings of the bicycle entrepreneur distribution model—the first of a number of pilot projects that PATH and its partners undertook in India and other countries to overcome distribution and marketing barriers that make it difficult for HWTS manufacturers to reach lower-income households and rural markets.

Author(s): Lasher H

Corporate author(s): PATH

Publication date: July 2011

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Bicycle Model Yields Rich Learning Despite Limited Results (project brief)

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Bicycle Model Yields Rich Learning Despite Limited Results (fact sheet)

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This publication is part of the series Safe water briefs

Region: Asia

See also: Health technologies > Safe water

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