Project database
Total results: 526
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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.
2010 - 2012
Southern Illinois University
Decentralized next generation sanitation for diarrheal pathogens: Windmill-driven ATAD (Autothermal, thermophilic aerobic digester) for increased pathogen removal
To test an air-pumping windmill sanitation system using normal, existing flush toilets in actual variable weather conditions for its ability to raise and maintain temperatures in an insulated container for wet composting.
2011 - 2015
USAID
Upgrading the Mafraq Wastewater Treatment Plant in Jordan
To support the feasibility study and design for upgrading the existing wastewater treatment plant, and fund the construction and construction management to upgrade the plant to a capacity of 6,550 m3 per day
Project ongoing since: 2011
Triple E s.a.r.l
Building compact decentralised wastewater treatment plants - MBR (membrane bioreactor)
An opportunity for a decentralized organization, a highly evolutionary and sustainable solution for the sewage system
2011 - 2014
Agricultural Development Association (PARC)
Food Security Thematic Programme in favour of the oPt (occupied Palestinian Territories)
Anzah village and Biet Dajan produce more food through sustainable and safe use of reclaimed wastewater
2011 - 2015
Sanergy
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Sustainable Sanitation in Urban Slums of Kenya
Sanergy will expand its financially sustainable sanitation service delivery system in Kenya’s urban slums (includes a combination of the toilet and a package of services such as training, waste collection, and cleaning)
2011 - 2018
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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Support for Promotion of Fit for School Programmes
To use existing structures in the education sector to improve school washing and sanitary facilities
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.
2011 - 2016
Beaumont LLC
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Fecal Sludge Omni-Ingestor (FSOI) suite of technologies for fecal sludge emptying and transport
The Fecal Sludge Omni-Ingestor (FSOI) suite of technologies includes pumping, debris extraction, heavies extraction, sludge thickening, and disinfection sub-systems
2011 - 2014
International Development Enterprises (iDE)
The Cambodia Sanitation Marketing Scale Up Project (SMSU)
To achieve market-based sanitation solutions in rural Cambodia and support the dissemination and replication of the Sanitation Marketing approach into other countries.
2011 - 2018
J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Urban Services Initiative (USI)
To evaluate innovative methods designed to improve the welfare of the urban poor in Asia and Africa. The project covers, amongst other issues, water, sanitation, and hygiene, migrant integration and livelihoods, energy and the environment, transportation.
2011 - 2015
BRAC USA
Innovations in sustainable sanitation in Bangladesh
To increase sanitation coverage at scale with a special emphasis on reaching the ultra-poor, as well as innovation and replication of components
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
Plan International
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Testing modified Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for scalability
The projects wants to improve the cost-effectiveness and scalability of the CLTS approach in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and worldwide.
2011 - 2015
ZanaAfrica Group (American Friends of ZanaAfrica, AFZA)
Expanding women’s access to safe, affordable sanitary pads from renewable resources
ZanaAfrica Group seeks to shape the feminine hygiene industry in East Africa to unlock the market for 1 million women and girls by 2020, delivering aspirational sanitary pads coupled with responsive reproductive health education.
2011 - 2015
Climate Foundation
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Biomass Controls PBC (BMC)
Conversion of human waste into biochar using pyrolysis at a community-scale facility in Kenya
To design, build, and test a self-contained system that can pyrolyze (decompose organic material at high temperatures without oxygen) human solid waste into a type of biological charcoal (biochar) that captures and stores carbon.
2011 - 2016
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
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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
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 - 2013
Wetlands Work!
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Floating community wastewater treatment in Asia
To design and field-test at village scale a simple cost-effective wastewater treatment system for floating communities in Southeast Asia. Floating “Pods” that use the microbial activity on aquatic plant roots are installed under the toilet of houseboats.
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.
2011 - 2014
Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology
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Diversion for safe sanitation: Flushable urine-diverting dry toilet with on-site wash water recycling embedded in a concept of transport logistics and treatment
The squatting “diversion toilet” includes integrated wash water recovery for hand washing and toilet cleaning. It separates undiluted urine, dry feces and wash water. The used water passes ultrafiltration and is recycled for the same purposes.
2011 - 2015
International Water Management Institute
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Scaling out the recovery of nutrients and organic matter from faecal sludge for food production in Ghana: From Waste to Food (WaFo)
To convert excreta into safe and efficient fertilizer pellets that could enhance agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa and make fecal sludge reuse commercially attractive.
2011 - 2015
University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Data acquisition and field support for sanitation projects
Phase 1 is about designing, prototyping, and evaluating a toilet system that can safely dispose of pollutants and recover valuable materials. The objective of phase 2 is to characterise physical and chemical properties of different excreta streams.
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.
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.
