Building Entrepreneurship for Water/Liquid/Solid Waste Management in Slums of Dar es Salaam Developing water, sludge and solid waste services in Temeke municipality through building entrepreneurship skills of service providers, developing appropriate technologies and setting up financing mechanisms to enable the enterprises to be profitable.
Activities relevant to sanitation (Objective 2):
Conduct community awareness on the importance of faecal sludge management in the 3 wards.
Establish 3 waste enterprises with select community members
Provide enterprises with soft loans to be returned by the project end (3 years) at the rate of inflation interest-rates
Support enterprises with training to establish and manage pit-emptying businesses
Design, contract and supervise the construction of 3 DEWATS for sludge treatment
Build the capacity of Temeke Municipality and DAWASA on sustainable management of faecal sludge through a private-public partnership for replication
Facilitate linkage between enterprises and Municipal loans for enterprises wishing to expand business
Mission
Objective 1. Sustainable access to water supply for 6,500 people in Mianzini Ward (Temeke Municipality) Objective 2. Access to safe pit-emptying, treatment and disposal services for people living in Temeke (Mianzini, Charambe, and Kiburugwa) Objective 3. Access to safe solid waste management services for people living in Temeke (Mianzini, Charambe, and Kiburugwa)Answer questions about the project
Connie Benjamin
conniebenjamin@wateraid.org
Filter / Tags
Market developmentCitiesPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesSpecific to one or several countriesEmptying and transport (non sewered)Treatment of faecal sludgeDecentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS)Faecal sludge treatment processesOther funding source or unspecifiedUrban informal settlements (slums)International NGO
Related Countries
Tanzania United Republic of
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