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
IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
In 2011, UNESCO-IHE and the BMGF joined efforts in combining research and capacity building on sanitation in a multi-million dollar project reaching out to Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced this grant at the AfricaSan conference in Rwanda launching its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene strategy. The goal is to provide a large impulse in postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on sanitation solutions for the urban poor.
Approach
There are 5 key themes which all research is grouped around: 1. Smart sanitation provision for slums and informal settlements 2. Emergency sanitation following natural and anthropologic disasters 3. Resource oriented decentralized sanitation 4. Low cost wastewater collection and treatment 5. Faecal sludge managementAnswer questions about the project
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Capacity developmentTechnology comparisonsEmergency and reconstructionSpecific to one or several countriesEmptying and transport (non sewered)Treatment of wastewater or greywaterTreatment of faecal sludgeConstructed wetlandsDecentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS)Faecal sludge treatment processesOtherBill & Melinda Gates FoundationUrban informal settlements (slums)University, education or research institution
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Netherlands
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