Smart subsidies help the rural poor climb the sanitation ladder

This RCT aims to examine the effectiveness of different financial incentive packages. The main objectives are to determine to what degree observed increases in improved sanitation coverage in the targeted areas could be causally attributed to the program and determine the impacts of different program interventions on increasing coverage (specifically, a cash rebate to individual low-income households for latrine installation as compared to a conditional cash transfer awarded to local governments upon achievement of community-wide sanitation targets).