Equipment and health and safety modifications required for developing the capacity to support grantees field-testing in Durban, SA To augment the services provided to transformative technology grantees and sanitation practitioners wishing to demonstrate their technologies in Eastern Africa.
University of KwaZulu-Natal
UKZN
The grant was awarded to the Pollution Research Group (PRG) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in order to increase the capacity of the PRG to provide support to sanitation practitioners working in the faecal sludge management field. This included covering the cost of upgrading the laboratory to increase health and safety (improved extraction, storage, standard operating procedures for helminth analysis etc.), provide more space for visiting researchers, and to purchase analytical equipment to increase the range of tests that can be undertaken.
In addition, the PRG offers training support to other laboratories wishing to undertake similar analyses. Staff labour costs of the PRG are covered by the grant, but all other costs such as chemicals, consumables, and travel and subsistence need to be covered by the researcher requesting assistance.
Mission
- To have a laboratory, field testing and office facilities available for use by faecal sludge researchers - Increase the chemical, physical and microbiological data available of relevance to faecal sludge researchersApproach
Research or implementation partners: eThekwini Water and Sanitation Water Research Commission of South Africa Research partners: Durban University of Technology, Sanergy; Centre for Science and the Enviroment; Eawag; Sandec; Asian Institute of Technology; BORDA; Oklahoma State University; UNESCO-IHE; University College LondonDescription on website of Pollution Research Group at UKZN
Documents in SuSanA library for an earlier phase of the project
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Capacity developmentOtherSpecific to one or several countriesOtherFaecal sludge treatment processesFundamental research and engineeringBill & Melinda Gates FoundationUniversity, education or research institution
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South Africa
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