2017 - 2020 Water & Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM) Towards Carbon Neutrality for the Water Cycle (Mexico, Peru, Thailand)

Climate change is aggravating the challenges that water and wastewater utilities face. At the same time the supply of water and the treatment of used water lead to substantial greenhouse gas emissions. This is partly on account of water losses and higher than necessary energy consumption. WaCCliM, the Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation Project, supports utilities on the path towards climate neutrality, while […]

2015 - 2018 Innovative Governance Reform Programme in cities of Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata Strengthening community engagement in the poorer settlements to improve the quality of sanitation facilities and services through purposeful convergence of policy, program and innovations

The second phase of the work was initiated since November 2015 and in this phase we aim to: Expand to two towns in Tamil Nadu as well as intensify the work in Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata, increasing its outreach to 108 settlements. Intensify our focus on menstrual hygiene management in the expanded areas. CFAR is piloting the concept of ‘positive deviance,’ that entails leveraging existing healthy sanitation and […]

2015 - 2017 Nexus projects - linking sanitation to agriculture (Food production and settlement hygiene in poor peri-urban regions in India) To mainstream and scale up the practices established in Nexus pilot-scale interventions, and to share the gained knowledge and experiences with a wider audience

Nexus Project – Food Production and Settlement Hygiene in Poor Peri-Urban Regions in India - creates the missing link between safe sanitation and food production, to enable the safe reuse of products from various sanitation systems. The project is jointly implemented by CDD Society Bangalore and BORDA. Now, in the third and final year of the project period, the aim is to mainstream and scale […]

2012 - 2015 Household Handwashing Device - Commercial Scale-Up in Vietnam After successfully piloting the „HappyTap“ - a device that brings together soap and water in an affordable, purpose-built, and attractive handwashing station - WaterSHED will improve, disseminate, and rigorously evaluate the HappyTap in Vietnam.

The concept of the HappyTap device, originally conceived through the World Bank Water & Sanitation Programme’s Global Handwashing Initiative, is to bring together soap and water in an affordable, purpose-built, and attractive handwashing station that makes hygienic behavior convenient and easy. Developed through a rigorous design and iterative testing phase through 2010, the HappyTap product reflects the right mix of aesthetic appeal, functionality, durability and […]

2013 - 2014 mWater: Mobile Technology for Social Water Monitoring in Low-resource Settings Building on the rapid growth of the mobile phone market in developing countries, mWater’s monitoring system uses an Android app to read its low-cost tests and instantly uploads the results to the cloud, creating a mapped database accessible to the public.

mWater mobile apps are simple to use and work on and offline, designed specifically for regions with spotty internet service. mWater follows an open access business model. Anyone can use the platform for free, without a relationship with mWater. Large organizations apply their own software budgets as investments in technology the world needs. Investor-level organizations pay for new features they desire, customized implementations, dashboards, […]

2011 - 2015 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 […]

2013 - 2015 Field evaluation of an affordable, effective on-site sanitation system To further develop a technology based on biofilter technology and using the 'Tiger Worm'.

The project is facing the challenge of providing sustainable and affordable on‐site sanitation for low‐income households who either lack sanitation or who use a pit latrine. The Tiger Toilet is a latrine system that has the potential to be an affordable, compact, and superior alternative to pit latrines and septic tanks. It harnesses the capabilities of composting worms such as the Tiger Worm (Eisenia fetida), […]

2013 - 2014 Incentivizing Sanitation with Biogas in Haiti The University of Maryland will test a technological solution to two critical needs in Haiti – the need for effective wastewater treatment to help curb the cholera epidemic, and the need for decentralized, low-cost energy sources.

Anaerobic Digestion Design for Cange, Haiti Based on the results of the biogas potentials of source-separated wastewater, a digestion system was designed that uses black water from the external clinic to fill a tipping bucket, which flushes a latrine raceway into a three-cell digestion system with wetland/trickling filter post-treatment system

2012 - 2013 Increased Uptake and the Use of Safe Water Filters at Scale - Testing Mobile Phone-based Sales to Increase Use of Safe Water Filters in Kenya RAND Corporation proposes to extend a sales contract to safe water filters – the Chujio ceramic filter - and to use mobile banking to collect payments in a scalable design. A larger pilot study will be performed in Kisumu (western Kenya)

This project is funded under the USAID DIV scheme.

2012 - 2013 Testing a Digital Platform’s Ability to Recreate the Success of Rural Community-Led Total Sanitation in Urban Communities IDEO.org and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) will design and test the hypothesis that a digital platform can recreate the success of ClTS, a method for stimulating improved sanitation demand through the use of social pressure.

2013 - 2014 Getting Hands Clean Where it Matters Most – Hand Hygiene Product Innovation for the Poor Bear Valley Ventures is investigating how to radically improve hand hygiene habits in India, through product innovation. Clean Hands Inc (CHI) develops products for the urban poor that can be used by households with substandard or no sanitation.

Bear Valley Ventures, a grantee of USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program, is investigating how to radically improve hand hygiene habits in India, through product innovation. Bear Valley and partners created Clean Hands Inc (link is external) (CHI) to develop new products for the urban poor that can be used by households with substandard or no sanitation and constrained access to water. With support from […]

2015 - 2018 The Cholera Hospital Based Intervention for 7 days (CHoBI 7) Trial The Hospital Based WASH intervention serves diarrhea patients and their families. Purpose is to develop and evaluate low cost approaches to integrate the CHoBI7 intervention into the existing services.

The Stage 2 award will broaden the scope of the Hospital Based WASH intervention to include all hospitalized diarrhea patients and their family members, which will allow JHU to serve many more beneficiaries; develop and evaluate low cost approaches to integrate the CHoBI7 intervention into the existing services provided for hospitalized diarrhea patients at health facilities in Bangladesh; and evaluate the ability of the CHoBI7 […]

2013 - 2016 Soapy water handwashing stations in Kenya To position the Soapy Water Handwashing Stations in Kenya for scale-up in order to reduce the burden of diarrheal and respiratory diseases by facilitating handwashing with soap

Through an iterative process of discussions with users and piloting, Innovations for Poverty Action has developed the soapy water handwashing station (SW-HWS). A modification of the existing "tippy tap" handwashing station design, the SW-HWS has two foot-pedal operated water storage tanks, one for soapy water and one for rinse water. The innovation of protecting soap by mixing it with water has been very well received […]

2015 - 2019 Programme for the modernisation and improvement of municipal water management (PROAGUA II) To provide water utilities in Peru better drinking water supply and sanitation services.

Water resources in Peru’s densely populated areas along the Pacific coast are scarce and, in most cases, contaminated. Industrial and domestic wastewater flows untreated into rivers. This situation is exacerbated by urbanisation, climate change and surface water pollution. In many regions, water utilities are very small. Financial management is poor, water charges do not cover costs and operations are often determined by political influence. This has […]

2008 - 2018 Sanitation activities of GIZ in Morocco Integrated Waterresource Management

Since water resources in Morocco are distributed unevenly and water resources are overused and threatened by pollution, the German-Moroccan technical Cooperation came up with a new water strategy. The aim is to strengthen the competencies of the national water resource agencies and improving the communication between different stakeholders in the water sector on the one, and advancing sewage water recycle and reuse on the other […]

2012 - 2015 EWA: Women Empowerment – Benefit (for) All To contribute to the economic and political empowerment of women from low-income rural and peri-urban regions in six developing countries

Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) developed together with (17) local partners in six countries (Afghanistan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, South Africa, and Uganda) the Empower Women – Benefit for All programme (EWA) which is funded through FLOW.

2014 - 2016 OUADINUT Project - WASH and Nutrition Integration Research on the benefits of a household WASH package to Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program in Chad

The study is conducted in Chad, Mao and Mondo districts of the Kanem region. In the context of nutritional rehabilitation of SAM (Severe Acute Malnutrition), it is hypothesized that improving water quality and hygiene-related care practices at household level would decrease incidences of WASH-related infections, such as diarrhoea, nematode and environmental enteric dysfunction (EED). As such, it would improve weight gain, decrease relapses after successful discharge, […]

2015 - 2016 Viscous heating for helminth deactivation in fecal sludge (200 to 1000 liters/hour) Earlier phases of the research were successful in destroying helminth eggs in fecal sludge using viscous heating. The next step is to scale-up the equipment for larger flow rates.

We were successful in destroying Helminth eggs, particularly Ascaris lumbricoides, in VIP sludge during Phase 2 using viscous heating. Our next step is to scale-up the equipment for larger flow rates. This year we will design, build and test equipment that can operate effectively at 200 and 1000 L/hr. Our computational fluid dynamics design is underway with construction of devices beginning in May and testing […]

2013 - 2022 Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM) Support a low-carbon, climate resilient urban water sector by introducing greenhouse gas-reducing solutions to improve the CO2 balance of water and wastewater utilities.

Climate change intensifies the challenges faced by the water sector. Besides the services provided by water and wastewater utilities, the technologies employed by water supply and wastewater systems lead to substantial emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), which are partly attributed to water and energy losses. The Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM) project supports water and wastewater utilities in its partner countries in identifying […]

2014 - 2017 Support to National Urban Sanitation Policy II Providing technical support in the areas that include systems for managing faecal sludge, operating models for public toilets and systems for non-conventional and decentralised wastewater management

The project "Support to National Urban Sanitation Policy (SNUSP) – II", supported the Indian government in implementation of its sanitation improvement schemes and missions such as National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP), Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT).