As November 19 marked World Toilet Day, LIXIL, maker of pioneering water and housing products, takes pride in highlighting the significant strides the company has made in global sanitation and hygiene.
Global sanitation and hygiene is one of the strategic pillars of LIXIL’s Impact Strategy, and an important driver towards realizing its corporate purpose to make better homes a reality for everyone, everywhere.
Globally, approximately 3.5 billion people do not have access to safely managed sanitation services and roughly 2 billion people are without basic hand washing facilities at home.
LIXIL has set the target of improving sanitation and hygiene for 100 million people around the world by 2025 through its sanitation and hand hygiene solutions. LIXIL has made steady progress, positively impacting the lives of approximately 68 million people across 45 countries.
To maximize LIXIL’s impact and accelerate its sanitation initiatives, LIXIL works closely with influential international and local organizations, including the United Nations agency for children (UNICEF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
LIXIL’s ‘Make a Splash!’ partnership with UNICEF has increased the availability and affordability of safe sanitation in six target countries, including Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Over the past five years, the collaboration has provided 12.7 million people with access to basic sanitation and hygiene. This shared-value partnership, extended to 2027, builds on LIXIL’s tangible impact and key lessons learned, focusing on market-based strategies to make sanitation and hygiene accessible where they are needed most across Asia and Africa.
LIXIL’s partnership with UNICEF has provided critical insights into five key dimensions required to develop sustainable sanitation markets: supply, demand, financing, enabling environment and sales. By focusing on these areas and taking a holistic approach, the company aims to scale its impact and bring safe sanitation and hygiene to even more people in the coming years.
USAID and LIXIL launched the “Partnership for Better Living: Affordable, Accessible, Adaptable Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions (PBL)” program in 2022.
