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2014 - 2018
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Emerging pollutants in wastewater reuse in developing countries


To support UNESCO Member States to strengthen their scientific, technical and policy capacities to manage human health and environmental risks caused by emerging pollutants in water and wastewater by improving water quality and wastewater management

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2015 - 2018
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Global Water Pathogen Project


Publishing a state-of-the-art reference work on water-related disease risks and intervention measures to replace Sanitation and Disease Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management by Feachem et al, 1983

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Project ongoing since: 2007
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education »
UNESCO-IHE Research Projects


The research aims at increasing access to safe, sufficient and affordable water for people. It is trans-disciplinary, holistic and applied, and is positioned mainly within an urban and peri-urban context.

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2011 - 2016
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education »
Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South‐East Asia


Postgraduate research projects in the fields of smart sanitation provision for slums, emergency sanitation, resource oriented decentralized sanitation, low cost wastewater collection and treatment, faecal sludge management

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2013 - 2015
United Nations Childrens Fund »
PhATS


Transcent the Humanitarian - Development Divide: Philippines Approach to Total Sanitation, Haiyan Response, Philippines, 2013-2015

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2013 - 2020
United Nations Childrens Fund »
Sanitation Water for All (SWA) Partnership reinvestment for improved global, regional and country engagement


to support and strengthen the Sanitation and Water for All Partnership to take action towards achieving the WASH-related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, including improving safely managed sanitation

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2013 - 2014
Unilever PLC
Adaptation of pyrolysis technologies to the waste treatment market


To advance the application of pyrolysis technology to treat human waste, as a solution that can increase access to safe sanitation through offering a modular system appropriate for urban environments in developing countries.

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2012 - 2019
United Purpose »
Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion in Nigeria (RUSHPIN)


This ground-breaking 5-year initiative transformed the health of 1.2 million people in over 1,200 communities in Cross River and Benue states. The Programme was implemented in partnership with the federal, state & local governments, and civil society.

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2012 - 2016
United Nations Childrens Fund »
Scaling-up and strengthening community approaches to total sanitation (Community Approaches to Total Sanitation, CATS)


To assess and analyze CATS innovations and implementation strategies in Malawi and Indonesia, distil and disseminate lessons learned to other UNICEF country programs in Africa and Asia.

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2011 - 2013
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Evaluating the Impact of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Programs in Mali


To improve the evidence of the effectiveness of Community Led Total Sanitation Programs on health and behavioral outcomes.

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2011 - 2012
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Lego-like bricks made of bio-composites for pit latrines


Development of a fully biodegradable brick in the “Lego-like” shape for building pit latrines. Large-scale tests are being conducted in Brazil and Ethiopia.

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2011 - 2013
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Increase of biogas production using low cost nanoparticles


To increase the production of biogas from sludge and other organic solid wastes using low cost iron oxide biocompatible nanoparticles (FeNPs) and the simultaneous production of high quality sanitized compost.

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2011 - 2013
University College London
Modelling the next generation of sanitation systems


To develop an easy-to-apply simulation tool set up to enable local city managers to assess the implications of adopting alternative sanitation strategies at scale.

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2011 - 2013
University of Calgary
Converting excreta to valuable products


To combine anaerobic micro-digesters and micro combined heat/power thermoelectric generation units into a single portable unit that can consume human excreta to generate electricity, heat, methane, fertilizer and water.

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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.

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2011 - 2013
University of California - Berkeley (UCB)
Disinfection of latrine faecal sludge with ammonia naturally present in excreta (Safe Sludge)


Ammonia (NH3) is a powerful disinfectant that can be produced from mixing urine and feces and adding an alkalinizing agent to raise the pH level. The safe sludge is compatible with downstream treatment and resource recovery.

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2011 - 2013
University of California Santa Barbara
Microorganisms with semiconducting membranes


Introducing artificial molecular wires into the membranes of microbes within a waste treatment system as a way to break down organic contaminants and catalytically convert the metabolic energy in those microbes into electrical energy.

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2011 - 2015
University of Colorado Boulder
Sol-Char Toilet: Using concentrated solar energy to stabilize fecal waste and produce a valuable soil amendment


Concentrated Solar energy heats the fecal matter up to 750°C and produces thereby char for agricultural soil application.

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2011 - 2013
University of Colorado Denver
Direct electricity from fecal sludge in bioelectric systems


To develop a low cost and easy-to-operate bioelectric reactor that uses microbes to break down waste and convert it to usable electricity and chemicals. An adequate solution for communities in need of sanitary waste disposal and energy supply.

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2011 - 2015
University of Delaware
Breathable membrane enclosures for fecal sludge stabilization


To test the use of breathable membranes to protect surrounding groundwater or floodwaters from contamination, while allowing fecal sludge to condense and stabilize.

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2011 - 2013
University of Durham
Turning latrines into fly traps


To design traps that attract, capture and kill flies in latrines in an effort to reduce fly-transmitted diarrheal diseases.

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2011 - 2013
University of Durham
Something from Nothing


To develop a macroporous scaffold that can support bacterial cells and metal nanoparticles that work together to catalyze conversion of fecal sludge into hydrogen for electricity.

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2011 - 2012
University of Eastern Africa, Baraton
Senecio Iyratipartitus extract for use after anal ablution


To produce a gel-based disinfectant from plant extracts of Senecio lyratipartitus which can be applied to hands. This hand disinfectant can reduce contamination associated with the practice of anal washing among certain communities.

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2017 - 2020
University of KwaZulu-Natal »
Support for ongoing prototype testing platform


To support field testing of sanitation system prototypes being developed for deployment in developing countries

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2016 - 2018
University of KwaZulu-Natal »
Standard Methods for the Analysis of Faecal Sludge


To produce a publication that will provide researchers and practitioners worldwide with consistent and comparable faecal sludge field and laboratory methods

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