Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH)-Mondial 2021-2025 + bridging phase 2019-2020. •The new phase of FINISH Mondial, implemented by a consortium of WASTE (lead organization), Amref Flying Doctors and Aqua for All, aims to scale up access and use of safely managed sanitation in six countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. •In the period 2021-2025, FINISH aims to reach 10 mil-lion people with safely managed sanitation through the realization of 2 million safely managed sanitation systems. This equals 20% of the Dutch Government’s SDG 6 target for 2030 (50 mln people have access to safely managed sanitation). •The bridging phase (2019-2020) has allowed the consortium to become fit for purpose for a new large programme. The FINISH approach is a proven model consisting of the “diamond approach”, bringing together and building capacity of communities, businesses, micro finance institutions and government and improving access to finance for sanitary facilities and business development. •A key element of this phase is the focus on circular economy: this will increase sustainability through re-use of faecal sludge and organic waste (fertilizer or energy). Another important element is capacity building for Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), to develop sanitation loan products, in order crowd in commercial finance in the sanitation sector. •The budget that is requested with this proposal will be used to facilitate and support local government, communities, financial ins titutions and businesses to invest in sanitation, generating at least a 1:10 leverage. Tekst bij Bridging phase: The current FINISH programme, implemented by WASTE as lead partner, consists of three separate components managed via A4A (Bangladesh, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia), RVO (Ken-ya) and by IGG (India). Two of the three components are coming to an end mid-2019, while a full proposal for the FINISH programme is not yet available. The FINISH-Mondial bridging phase will ensure momentum of the existing FINISH pro-gramme, while WASTE is preparing for merging the separate components for further upscaling of the programme to 6 coun-tries (July 2020 onwards). FINISH Mondial is a proven model (India and Kenya, more than 1 million people reached). It aims to improve health, sani-tation, gender and employment outcomes. It ensures sustaina-ble access to sanitation by demand creation, behaviour change on hygiene and development of the value chain of sanitation. Key aspect is bringing together and building capacity of com-munities, business, micro finance institutions and government and improving access to finance for sanitary facilities and busi-ness development (the so called “Diamond Approach”). FIN-ISH-Mondial has a strong focus on circular economy by building capacity for reuse (fertilizer or energy) of faecal waste. In each country, the “Diamond Approach” will, in collaboration with partner organisations, be locally contextualized with dif-ferent domains of the Diamond receiving more/less emphasis. With this approach communities are able to improve on the sanitation ladder and move away from simple pit latrines to safer, more sustainable and hygienic toilet facilities. The FINISH programme has strong relevance for the Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Policy and the DGIS WASH strategy. The anticipated financial leverage has been proven, which makes the application an interesting proposition.