Project database
Total results: 526
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2014 - 2017
GOAL
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Achieving sustained environmental health improvements in Freetown through fecal sludge management enterprises
To improve the sanitary collection and transport of fecal sludge in Freetown, Sierra Leone, through a strengthened regulatory environment and public infrastructure, effective and efficient private service providers, and increased public awareness
2014 - 2015
Environment and Public Health Organization
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Stimulating Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) business for effective service delivery in sustainable sanitation through private sector engagement in Kathmandu Valley
The main goal of the project is to create enabling environment in providing population of Kathmandu Valley with safe and improved access to sustainable sanitation through private sector engagement and regulation of key policies related to FSM in the city.
2014 - 2016
Action Contre la Faim
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OUADINUT Project - WASH and Nutrition Integration
Research on the benefits of a household WASH package to Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program in Chad
2014 - 2018
Water Research Commission
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South African Sanitation Technology Demonstration Programme (SASTEP) – Reinvented Toilet Technology Demonstration and Roadmap to Commercialization
Testing the latest in cutting-edge sanitation solutions in order to assess and evaluate for feasibility of widespread use and commercialization in rural and peri-urban areas.
2014 - 2018
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
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Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A)
Focuses on strengthening capacity in four areas: steering and implementation of sanitation demand creation, sanitation supply chains and finance, behavioural change communication and WASH governance. Implemented in over 15 Asian and African countries.
2013 - 2015
WASH United
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WASH United's fun, game and sport-based activities to raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene
Raising the awareness for sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda among the general public and among poor and marginalized people through the use of power of sports superstars, interactive games and positive communication
2015 - 2016
Sanergy
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Production and market demonstration of fecal sludge by-products at scale
This project will support the implementation of efficient fecal sludge management systems, the production of by-products made from fecal sludge, and the demonstration of the market viability of these by-products.
2011 - 2012
Nature Healing Nature
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Using waste to move waste (using urine to flush waste)
Designing a device that would utilize urine to flush waste through a pour-flush (PF) toilet thus reducing or eliminating the need for scarce flush water during the dry season in developing countries
2011 - 2012
Sustainable Sanitation Design
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Slum sanitation with 100% safe reuse of nutrients (urea treatment and thermophillic composting of faecal sludge)
SuSan Design upgrades human excreta from pathogenic material to safe agricultural fertilizers and soil improvers in 45 days. Goal is to design and test such a low cost system for farmers.
2011 - 2014
Delft University of Technology
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Upgrade human waste to fuel gas with plasma-driven gasification
The development of a self-supporting sanitation system consisting of a microwave plasma gasification mini plant that generates energy and a human centered design for distributed sanitation facilities in urban informal settlements.
2012 - 2016
Water Research Commission
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Sanitation Research Fund of BMGF/WRC (SRFA): Knowledge-based Solutions for Onsite Dry Sanitation Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
Characterisation of pit contents and developing innovative techniques for pit desludging and subsequent sludge management in low income urban areas.
2011 - 2012
Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation, Inc.
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Ecological sanitation for the base of the pyramid (Closing the loop between sanitation & agriculture in Mindanao, the Philippines using lactic fermentation)
Exploring the viability of low-cost dry toilets and the use of human waste in small-scale agri-silviculture including crop trials; testing secondary treatment with vermi-composting and researching odour minimization.
2010 - 2015
Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology
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VUNA - Promoting sanitation and nutrient recovery through urine separation (Valorisation of urine nutrients in Africa)
This project developed a system to collect source-separated urine and process it into fertiliser. Collection logistics, treatment technologies, and social and economic assessments of nutrient recovery were some of the activities.
2014 - 2015
Pivot Ltd.
Pivot Plant: Converting human waste to fuel to finance complete sanitation
Pivot is building the first faecal sludge to solid fuel facility,
2011 - 2016
Water, Engineering and Development Centre
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Reinvent the toilet: Using hydrothermal carbonization – or simply pressure cooking – to manage faecal sludge
The energetically self-sufficient toilet uses an autothermic, hydrothermal carbonising process to produce material that is safe to handle and could be used for soil conditioner.
2008 - 2014
IRC
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Sustainable Service at Scale (S3): a multi-country learning project to improve rural water service delivery
To deliver change in the paradigm by which rural water services are delivered: from hardware to services that last
2017 - 2020
International Water Association
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Water & Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM)
Towards Carbon Neutrality for the Water Cycle (Mexico, Peru, Thailand)
2011 - 2012
RTI International
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Cocopeat for treating septic tank effluent
To test and commercialize an innovative biofilter medium harvested from crushed coconut shells. Cocopeat, the dust that remains after the coir (fibers) are removed, is proving to be an effective medium for treating wastewater.
2014 - 2017
Center for Water and Sanitation, CRDF, CEPT University
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Bringing sustainable and equitable sanitation services to small and medium towns in India
Bringing universal sanitation services across the FSM chain to two small towns in Maharashtra, India and capture the lessons in order to build the capacity of other small and medium cities in the state of Maharashtra and India
2017 - 2019
Khanyisa Projects
Prototype Engineering Testing Management for Reinvented Toilets - EThekwini Municipality South Africa
To field test toilet prototypes in disadvantaged areas of eThekwini Municipality with the ultimate aim of rollout in other parts of the world
2011 - 2016
USAID
USAID development innovations ventures WSH collaboration
To support a collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the identification, testing, and sustained uptake of evidence-based approaches to delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services to the poor
2011 - 2015
Loowatt Ltd
Energy-producing waterless toilet system
Developing and testing a waterless toilet that seals and stores waste in biodegradable film, within a portable container, for easy transport to a local anaerobic digester in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
2012 - 2013
IDEO.org
Testing a Digital Platform’s Ability to Recreate the Success of Rural Community-Led Total Sanitation in Urban Communities
IDEO.org and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) will design and test the hypothesis that a digital platform can recreate the success of ClTS, a method for stimulating improved sanitation demand through the use of social pressure.
2009 - 2017
University of California - Berkeley (UCB)
Measuring the benefits of water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions for improving health and child development (WASH Benefits)
The study includes two randomized trials in two rural communities in Bangladesh and Kenya. It will measure the effect of providing improved household compound-level WASH and nutritional interventions, alone and in combination.
2012 - 2016
CARE
SWASH+ Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Plus Community Impact
To improve the sustainability and effectiveness of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at scale in order to support the Government of Kenya’s Comprehensive School Health Policy.
