Accelerator

Purpose

The world’s leading Accelerator dedicated to scaling sanitation SMEs via business model design, corporate mentorship and access to investment.

Activities

The Toilet Board Coalition built the world’s leading Accelerator dedicated to scaling sanitation SMEs via business model design, corporate mentorship and access to investment. The Accelerator not only strengthens and scales sanitation businesses, but it also facilitates partnerships within its Members – between SMEs, corporates, NGOs, investors and governments that share a commitment to enable universal access to sanitation.

To date, the Coalition has graduated 70 SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) from over 20 countries, impacting more than 3 million people daily and unlocking US$33 million in finance.

In 2023, the Accelerator expanded into Latin America an is co-financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IDB Lab through the Source of Innovation alliance and delivered in Spanish in collaboration with Water For People. This year, the Toilet Board Coalition, with the support of Aqua For All, is offering the programme in West Africa for French-speaking entrepreneurs.

Images

Image: Sanitation Economy Installation

Countries of activity

Location of main activity

Objectives

Accelerate 1000 sanitation SMEs.

Contact information

Maria Fernanda Delfino
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Alex Knezovich
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Filter tags

Biogas systems Capacity development Cities Community sanitation Composting, vermicomposting (solid waste), composting toilets Container based systems (CBS) Decentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS) East Asia & Pacific Emptying and transport (non sewered) Enabling environment and institutional strengthening Energy: biogas Energy: electricity, hydrogen, fuel cells Energy: fuel (liquid or solid) Europe & Central Asia Faecal sludge treatment processes Faeces or faecal sludge Fertiliser Food security and productive sanitation Gender equality Gender transformative WASH Global Greywater or wastewater Latin America & Caribbean Market development Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) Middle East & North Africa North America Operation, maintenance and sustainable services Peri-urban Practitioners Protein for animal food Renewable energies and climate change Resource recovery Rural Schools Sexual and gender minorities South Asia Specific to one or several countries Sub-Saharan Africa Toilets or urinals (user interface) Treatment of faecal sludge Treatment of wastewater or greywater Urban (entire city) Urban informal settlements (slums) Urine Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs) Vermifilters, vermifilter toilets WASH and nutrition Water (irrigation, process, other) Women in Water Jobs Women Networks Women's rights & representation and empowerment