2015 - 2019 ListenUp: Amplifying girls voices through sanitary pads and health information To implement safe, accurate, and cost-effective reproductive health innovations for girls in the form of disposable sanitary pads coupled with girl-centered reproductive health information and resources
We implement safe, accurate, and cost-effective reproductive health innovations for girls in the form of disposable sanitary pads coupled with girl-centered reproductive health information and resources. We evaluate this approach against traditional facilitation-based methods for impact on girls’ educational attainment, sexual behavior, reproductive health, and self-determination. We would like to see women & girls at the Center of Development.
2015 - 2017 Fast Catalyst for Biofuels Production To demonstrate the ability to convert fecal sludge to a biofuel, which will enhance the sanitation value chain and provide both pit-emptying and central processing facilities with feedstock options.
If this technology can be implemented in a financially sustainable model it will help lower the quantity of fecal sludge that ends up in the drinking water supply. These funds would build on the positive results from the Phase I study, looking at converting fecal waste into a fuel oil, that could be either blended into crude oil, combusted directly or further processed into a […]
2015 - 2018 Sanitation Trial in Maputo, Mozambique (MAPSAN) Supporting the generation of new knowledge on the health impacts of urban sanitation
The combination of a high faecal-related disease burden and inadequate infrastructure suggests that investment in expanding sanitation access in densely populated urban slums can yield important public health gains. No rigorous, controlled intervention studies have evaluated the health effects of decentralised (non-piped) sanitation in an informal urban setting, despite the role that such technologies will likely play in scaling up access. Methods. We have designed a […]
2009 - 2012 SANIRESCH (SANItaryRecycling ESCHborn) Demonstration project: Treatment and recycling of the urine, brown and greywater collected at the main building of the headquarters of GIZ in Eschborn, Germany.
The aim of SANIRESCH (SANItaryRecycling ESCHborn) was the treatment and recycling of the urine, brown- and greywater collected at the main building of the headquarters of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Eschborn, Germany. Technologies for the treatment of wastewater streams (MAP precipitation, membrane bioreactors) as well as reuse in agriculture were developed further within this project. Besides, economical, social and environmental questions […]
2015 - 2016 A coherent monitoring framework for post-2015 water targets To establish a coherent and unified monitoring framework for water and sanitation in order to improve data collection and analysis and support informed country decision-making
2006 - 2015 CuveWaters – Sustainable water management in Namibia Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) in the northern Namibian Cuvelai-Etosha Basin; research project in collaboration with Technische Universität Darmstadt (TUD) and other partners
The project team of CuveWaters, led by ISOE – the Institute for Social-Ecological Research, has succeeded in turning wastewater into a resource in this most arid region of the world, so that processed wastewater from sanitary facilities can be used for agricultural purposes. Approximately 850,000 people live in central northern Namibia. About 40 percent of the population in urban areas don’t have access to adequate sanitary […]
2013 - 2016 Effective governance for the successful long-term operation of community scale air limbah systems Research to improve successful long term service delivery from community scale sanitation service systems in Indonesia by focusing on governance.
‘Community Sanitation Governance’ is a 3-year research project investigating effective governance for successful long-term operation of community scale wastewater systems in Indonesia. For this project, governance means the financial, stakeholder, organizational, regulatory, and technical support necessary for successful, long-term service delivery. The research is led by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and supported by the Australian Development Research […]
2015 - 2018 Reinvented Toilet - Standards and Certification Development To develop an international standard for safe and sustainable off-grid sanitation technologies
There is no standard available that sufficiently qualifies safe and sustainable sanitation technologies particularly needed in developing countries. This results in regular failure of installed products, the implementation of non-suitable technologies and the lack of innovative solutions. The primary investment outcome is an internationally recognized technical standard for off-the grid (Reinvented Toilets) sanitation technologies. This standard defines the required criteria to qualify sanitation technologies sufficiently […]
2015 - 2017 Promoting evidence-based programming by sector partners To provide research support to UNICEF in order to improve the social impact and cost-effectiveness of UNICEF’s water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.
IDinsight will determine which evaluation activity is most appropriate (impact evaluation, nimble process evaluation, data analysis support, among others) to generate the evidence needed to answer several of the questions identified by UNICEF’s WASH teams in Kenya and the Philippines.
2015 - 2018 Reinvented Toilet - ISO Standards Development To develop internationally recognized standards for Reinvented Toilets that will facilitate widespread deployment of low-cost, safe and effective toilets in areas of need worldwide.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) both maintain that no one should lack access to a safe and hygienic toilet. To support this goal, ANSI will manage, under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a process to develop an international standard for next-generation toilet technologies (Reinvented Toilets) that will facilitate widespread deployment of low-cost, safe, and effective toilets […]
2015 - 2017 Sanitation and Health Guidelines To develop, publish and broadly disseminate WHO guidelines for sanitation and health, which will provide a sound normative basis for maximizing the health benefits of sanitation.
Project update: the guidelines were launched in October 2018: WHO (2018). Guidelines on Sanitation and Health. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. ISBN 978-92-4-151470-5 (link below)
2015 - 2018 Technical support to share and disseminate the FSM projects results from Dakar To replicate a sanitation utility service delivery model developed in Dakar in at least three countries in Africa and validate its application at scale for the benefit of urban poor
The successful replication of the FSM (fecal sludge management) scheme developed in Dakar was a goal set in the initial grant to ONAS signed in 2011 to demonstrate scale application. EDE’s role was shaped in this initial project as a key player to promote scale application through technical assistance in other countries. In this project, success will translate into the adoption of national policies that […]
2015 - 2019 Sub-critical wet-oxidation technology for low cost human waste processing To deliver a working demonstration of the integration of sub-critical wet oxidation into an effective non-sewered toilet that can be used in the developing world
Phase 1: To design and develop a proof-of-concept toilet system at household scale based on sub-critical wet oxidation that will safely and affordably treat human waste. Phase 2: to deliver a working demonstration of the integration of sub-critical wet oxidation into an effective non-sewered toilet that can be used in the developing world
2015 - 2016 CIES - Electrode development To develop a semi-automated production line for semi-conductor coated metal-base anodes and cathodes
To develop a semi-automated production line for semiconductor-coated metal-base anodes and cathodes in order to make electrode sets available at reasonable prices to companies that are developing prototype toilets..
2015 - 2019 Evidence, solutions, advocacy, and collaboration for India’s sanitation sector To provide support for high-quality research and policy analysis on sanitation in India that can help reduce open defecation and improve children’s health by promoting latrine use.
In follow up to the SQUAT Report / Switching Study Grant (India and other countries). This grant is focused on statistical research on costs for human welfare of widespread open defecation in India; to conduct careful qualitative and quantitative fieldwork documenting important policy challenges posed by behaviors, beliefs, and preferences about sanitation. These findings will be increasingly important in helping the sector move from recognizing the urgency of reducing open defecation in India to searching for […]
2015 - 2018 Global Water Pathogen Project Publishing a state-of-the-art reference work on water-related disease risks and intervention measures to replace Sanitation and Disease Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management by Feachem et al, 1983
Short description of the project: This Global Water Pathogen Project (GWPP) is aimed at developing a knowledge resource to guide future goals for achieving safe water. It aims at helping to reduce mortality linked to water pathogens (in particular viruses, bacteria, protists and helminths) and the lack of safe drinking water and basic sanitation through creating, publishing and disseminating the state-of-the-art replacement of the current […]
2015 - 2017 Add-on to Orissa trial to study Gram Vikas model To provide rigorous evidence of the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and mechanism of action of the Gram Vikas sanitation program to end open defecation and yield positive health outcomes in rural India.
Project udpate in November 2017: Tom Clasen’s special report presented the findings of the Gram Vikas evaluation of a combined household-level piped water and sanitation intervention in rural Odisha, India. The evaluation measured impact on diarrheal diseases, respiratory infection, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and undernutrition. This was a matched cohort study, looking at interventions that were already in place. While the results show substantial increases in sanitation access and use and access to improved […]
2015 - 2018 ONAS support for field testing of Janicki Omni-Processor Field testing in Dakar, Senegal, for the Omni-Processor as an innovative fecal sludge processing and recovery technology.
Since arriving in Dakar, the OP has processed an estimated 700 tons of fecal sludge. When operated at capacity, it can now process fecal waste at a rate of approximately 4,000 tons per year which means it can treat the waste of 50,000-100,000 people from the adjacent community. We have also successfully generated clean drinking water onsite. Because of the entrenched perceptions from previous technology […]
2015 - 2018 Small-scale sanitation scaling up (4S) The project seeks to provide sound empirical evidence for future small-scale sanitation sector investments in South Asia
Eawag/Sandec is partnering with the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai) and BORDA, Germany to carry out the first systematic assessment of small-scale sanitation systems in South Asia funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The main goal of the project is to provide evidence-based policy recommendations for improved system design, operation and maintenance (O&M) and monitoring to inform strategic financial decision making and […]
2015 - 2019 Private and Social Toilets (PRISTO) A public-private partnership intended to promote improved sanitation. This will be achieved by facilitating the marketing, production, sale and installation of Biofil Toilet Systems in urban poor households in Accra, Ghana.
PRISTO is a public-private partnership intended to promote improved health by reducing disease caused by contact with human waste. This will be achieved by facilitating the marketing, production, sale and installation of Biofil Toilet Systems in urban poor households in Accra, Ghana. Ga Central and Ashaimen municipalities were selected because of their pre-existing promotional activities for Biofil Toilet Systems.
