Financing resource recovery and reuse in developing and emerging economies: enabling environment, financing sources and cost recovery

Resource recovery and reuse (RRR) of domestic and agro industrial waste has the potential to contribute to a number
of financial, socioeconomic and environmental benefits in
developing and emerging economies. Despite the proven
benefits and increasing political will to recycle nutrients,
water and energy, barriers to meeting up-front capital
requirements, engaging the private sector, and achieving
sustainable, pro-poor cost recovery continue to limit the
widespread adoption of RRR. A systematic understanding
of the enabling environment, public and private funding
sources, risk-sharing mechanisms and pathways for cost
recovery can help to identify opportunities to improve the
viability of RRR solutions. This report uses a conventional
definition of finance as the provision of funding with
expectation of repayment, and of funding as a broad term to
include both finance and non-repayable monies.