Lavanya Kapoor Senior Consultant
FSG Advisory Services, India
Lavanya Kapoor is a Senior Consultant at FSG and has experience in WASH and climate change across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. She was leading the USAID URBAN WASH project studying the engagements between public utilities and private providers to expand the coverage of services in Zambia, Kenya, and Mozambique. Before this, she studied ways of abating methane emissions from the sanitation value chain in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and supported scaling up market-based solutions in Tanzania for sanitation and menstrual health and hygiene products.
Articles written by Lavanya Kapoor
Beyond Infrastructure: Why the WASH Sector Needs Local Private Providers to Reach the Underserved
32 5. November 2025
The challenge is clear. Despite decades of investment totalling billions of dollars from donors and governments, the world continues to fall behind on Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. According to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) 2025 report, 2.1 billion people still lack access to safely managed drinking water and 3.4 billion people still lack safely managed sanitation.
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