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)
In 2011 social enterprise Sanergy received a Stage 1 Development Innovation Venture (DIV) grant from USAID to establish a working business model that fabricates low-cost hygienic latrines in Kenya’s slums and franchises them out to local entrepreneurs. The Sanergy team then collects the waste daily, brings it to a central processing facility and converts it to organic fertilizer for use by commercial farmers. With this grant, Sanergy was able to sell, install and operate 60 sanitation facilities in Mukuru, Nairobi.
After demonstrating its initial success, Sanergy applied for and won Stage 2 DIV support from USAID to expand the franchise to service 70,000 slum residents through the sales of at least 700 toilets. The project leverages an in-house sales force and partnerships with community groups, NGOs and the Kenyan Government to sell toilets to expand Sanergy’s sanitation infrastructure and waste processing operations.
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This project is funded under the USAID DIV scheme.Project description on USAID DIV website
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Community sanitationOperation, maintenance and sustainable servicesProduct design and engineeringSpecific to one or several countriesToilets or urinals (user interface)Emptying and transport (non sewered)Treatment of wastewater or greywaterResource recovery Container based systems (CBS)United States governmentFaeces or faecal sludgeUrban informal settlements (slums)FertiliserPrivate sector, including social enterprises
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KenyaUnited States
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