SOIL at the 6th Haiti Funders Conference
Conference participants left to right: Maya Sanchez (W.K. Kellogg Foundation), Guerline Jozef (Haitian Bridge Alliance), Karen Ansara (Ansara Family Foundation) Dr. Sasha Kramer (SOIL), Dana François (W.K. Kellogg Foundation), Sahita Pierre Antoine (Jean Appolon Expresssions) Simbi Duplan
Funders who want to drive genuine impact invest in solutions like SOIL—efforts that partner with and reinforce public-sector goals to build and sustain essential services at scale.
SOIL’s contribution to city-wide sanitation in Northern Haiti has taken many different forms in the last 19 years. Our operations team has relentlessly tackled the challenge of simultaneously designing and deploying a new sanitation technology and service in northern Haiti - in an environment where no safe solutions for dense urban neighborhoods existed. Today, SOIL is the sole safely-managed sanitation provider in northern Haiti that offers a full-circle sanitation service - beginning with the installation of a household toilet and ending in the safe treatment and transformation of human waste into agricultural-grade compost that goes to supporting Haiti’s food systems.
At this week’s 6th Haiti Funders Conference, SOIL’s Executive Director, Dr. Sasha Kramer, joined a panel on Innovative Financing to promote Public–Private Partnerships. The conversation centered on Results-Based Financing—a model that elevates transparency, efficacy, and accountability for essential service providers and investors.
In a Results-Based Financing agreement, results are collectively defined upfront, linked to payments, and verified independently. This financing model allows the service provider the flexibility to adapt their implementation approach, create novel partnerships, define sharp and shared incentives to efficiently grow the service, and creates a measure of accountability for results achieved. One of the most attractive aspects of results based financing is that it can act as a bridge to public-sector funding and demonstrates a service provider’s ability to deliver on targets.
Thanks to support from IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) and our philanthropic allies, SOIL’s EkoLakay sanitation service has experienced dramatic service growth. In Phase 1 (2023–2024), we exceeded installation goals by over 70%, expanding our Cap‑Haïtien footprint by 40%, and installing roughly 1,550 new clients over the course of the first contract. Now, Phase 2 aims to serve 4,600 households, optimize operations, and lower costs—all while establishing joint long‑term partnerships with Haitian government offices like DINEPA and OREPA Nord.
To reinforce the panel, we shared a video of donor testimonials, featuring funders who’ve engaged with the OCF—speaking directly about the power of outcomes-driven financing. Their stories illuminate how shared, transparent goals among donors, implementers, and government can create real-scale impact.
SOIL is honored to help usher in a new era of outcomes-based financing for sanitation—not only in Haiti but around the world. We’re committed to sharing our insights, learning from partners, and proving that when governments, donors, and social enterprises unite, real, scalable progress follows.
A heartfelt thanks to IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund, our philanthropic community, DINEPA, OREPA Nord, and all others working hand in hand to realize city-wide sanitation solutions.
Together, we’re not just building infrastructure—we’re building models of investment that deliver health, dignity, and long-term resilience.
