2015 - 2019 The SEI Initiative on Sustainable Sanitation (SISS) To strengthen knowledge on how sanitation can contribute to the broader sustainable development agenda, and how sustainable sanitation provision can be achieved at scale
The Initiative envisions sanitation as an integral piece of the sustainable development puzzle, highlighting the multiple benefits it can provide in areas from health to food security, resilient livelihoods, business growth, renewable energy, and environmental sustainability. In the search for improved and upscalable implementation models, the Initiative examines not just “hardware” issues but includes enabling institutional conditions and governance frameworks, and ways to change users’ […]
2014 - 2018 South African Sanitation Technology Demonstration Programme (SASTEP) – Reinvented Toilet Technology Demonstration and Roadmap to Commercialization Testing the latest in cutting-edge sanitation solutions in order to assess and evaluate for feasibility of widespread use and commercialization in rural and peri-urban areas.
Testing the latest in cutting-edge sanitation solutions in order to assess and evaluate for feasibility of widespread use and commercialization. (BMGF-DST Partnership, focusing on BMGF grants previously funded under the RTTC scheme) The Department of Science and Technology (DST) South Africa and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) recently announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) – “Partnership in the Demonstration of Sanitation Solutions in Rural […]
2014 - 2018 SFD (Shit Flow Diagram) Promotion Initiative To continue development of an easy-to-understand advocacy, decision and monitoring tool - Shit Flow Diagrams
The “SFD Promotion Initiative” is developing and promoting standardised tools for excreta flow analysis to inform urban sanitation programming. These tools build on the service delivery assessment and faecal waste flow diagrams (or Shit Flow Diagrams, SFDs) developed by the World Bank – Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). SFD is a visualisation tool that shows how excreta is or is not contained along the sanitation […]
2014 - 2019 Strengthening and broadening community-led total sanitation (CLTS) at scale Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free). The CLTS Knowledge Hub is committed to supporting CLTS to go to scale.
The CLTS Knowledge Hub is committed to supporting CLTS to go to scale with quality and in a sustainable manner, and to accelerate its spread. It seeks to do so in collaboration with practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others working in the development, sanitation and related communities, in Governments, international agencies, NGOs, research institutes, and other organisations.
2011 - 2016 Fecal Sludge Omni-Ingestor (FSOI) suite of technologies for fecal sludge emptying and transport The Fecal Sludge Omni-Ingestor (FSOI) suite of technologies includes pumping, debris extraction, heavies extraction, sludge thickening, and disinfection sub-systems
The FSOI Project is developing a number of devices to improve On-site Sanitation. FSOI Mechanical Pump will pump waste 50-100 meters, much further than vacuum trucks, enabling it to access 92-97% of the vaults in unplanned settlements in Africa. The pump is also capable of pumping waste from wet and dry vaults*, (0-40% TS) permitting mechanical emptying of nearly all sludge types. The pump is a […]
2014 - 2018 Determining the effectiveness and mode of operation of Community Lead Total Sanitation (CLTS): The DEMO-CLTS study The study’s overall goal is to improve the behavioral change strategies used to eliminate open defecation.
This study will reveal the effectiveness and mode of operation of the community-led total sanitation (CLTS) intervention to decrease the incidence of open defecation (OD). In particular, it will determine which elements of CLTS are highly efficient in decreasing OD, which elements have no effect, which hinder the decrease of OD, and which are the most efficient in supporting communities in the attainment of OD-free […]
2015 - 2016 Production and market demonstration of fecal sludge by-products at scale This project will support the implementation of efficient fecal sludge management systems, the production of by-products made from fecal sludge, and the demonstration of the market viability of these by-products.
This project will support the implementation of efficient fecal sludge management systems, the production of by-products made from fecal sludge, and the demonstration of the market viability of these by-products. The project will also allow Sanergy to build an enabling environment in terms of policy and advocacy. Sanergy began working in Nairobi in November 2011. We design and manufacture low-cost, high-quality sanitation facilities. Developed by our […]
2009 SOIL Research Projects To provide public, shared, and private household UDDTs, and collects the waste for processing into agricultural-grade compost. Research activities focus on private-sector solutions to providing sanitation services.
Since building Haiti’s first ecological sanitation (EcoSan) toilet in 2006 and Haiti’s first urban waste treatment facility in 2009, SOIL has gone on to become one of the largest sanitation providers in Haiti. SOIL provides public, shared, and private household UDDTs, and collects the waste for processing into agricultural-grade compost. Current research activities are focused on demonstrating the potential for a private-sector solution to […]
2005 WRC Research Projects South African Water Research Commission (WRC) supports sustainable development through reseach funding, knowledge creation and dissemination
WRC does not carry out research itself but administers research funds at a national level. WRC provides the country with applied knowledge and water-related innovation, by continuously translating needs into research ideas and, in turn, transferring research results and disseminating knowledge and new technology-based products and processes to end-users. One of WRC's five key strategic areas is entitled "Water Use and Waste Management" and […]
2005 Research Projects at School of Engineering of UKZN The University’s Pollution Research Group has expanded its activities into municipal water and wastewater management. Engineers, biologists, political scientists and community medical professionals form the multi-disciplinary team.
As a result of a Memorandum of Agreement signed between the eThekwini Municipality’s Water and Sanitation Unit and UKZN, the University’s Pollution Research Group (PRG) has expanded its activities into municipal water and wastewater management. These activities form the focus of a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, biologists, political scientists and community medical professionals, and have included participation in two European Union research projects related to […]
2005 Research Projects of CEDAT The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology (CEDAT) in Uganda is involved in inter-disciplinary sanitation technology research including treatment systems, societal aspects, gender issues, social marketing, sustainable sanitation.
Several colleges are involved in teaching, research and consultancy in topics relating to sustainable sanitation, mainly the College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology. Staff and students are often involved in inter-disciplinary research in the areas of sanitation technology including treatment systems, societal aspects including gender issues, social marketing, as well as financial and economic aspects of sustainable sanitation. Project examples (lead researcher is Charles […]
2005 CWSS Research Projects The Community Water Supply and Sanitation Unit (CWSS Unit) is a South African based multidisciplinary research unit and hub of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) water and sanitation network.
The Community Water Supply and Sanitation Unit (CWSS Unit) is a South African based multidisciplinary research unit offering a range of development and collaboration opportunities to staff and students within a framework of commissioned projects based on sector, community and client needs. The CWSS Unit is the hub of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) water and sanitation network for: - the identification and establishment […]
2005 Research projects of IWMI Research focuses on the key water challenges poor agricultural communities face - issues that affect food production, people’s livelihoods and health, as well as the integrity of the environmental services.
WMI’s research focuses on the key water challenges poor agricultural communities face - issues that affect food production, people’s livelihoods and health, as well as the integrity of the environmental services on which they depend. Research thus examines the “water-food-environment nexus”, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and balancing efficiency and productivity objectives with equity and sustainability concerns. The issue pages on the website of IWMI describe some […]
2005 IWC Research Projects The International WaterCentre leads whole-of-water cycle, transdisciplinary and collaborative research activities, which address current and emerging water issues to influence water management and policy, education and leadership.
The International WaterCentre leads whole-of-water cycle, transdisciplinary and collaborative research activities, which address current and emerging water issues to influence water management and policy, education and leadership. Their research is designed to be empirical, problem based and to generate useful new knowledge. Research themes include: - Water, sanitation and hygiene - Integrated water management - Healthy river basins - Sustainable urban communities
2005 CEPT University Research Projects To focus on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. This includes water and sanitation projects, a current major project being the Performance Assessment System (PAS) Project.
CEPT University focuses on understanding, designing, planning, constructing and managing human habitats. CEPT University also undertakes advocacy and advisory projects to further the goal of making habitats more livable. This includes water and sanitation projects, a current major project being the Performance Assessment System (PAS) Project. PAS, an action research project in Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, develops better information on water and sanitation […]
2005 WEDC Research Projects The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) focuses its research on solutions for people in low- and middle-income countries in the fields of water, sanitation, vulnerability, emergency and conflict
WEDC focuses its research on solutions for people in low- and middle-income countries, helping to provide evidence-based answers to important questions – not only about what needs to be done to improve basic infrastructure and essential services – but also how to go about it. Knowledge is central to progress. It's not just the generation of new knowledge through research, but using existing knowledge to […]
2005 WASTE's sanitation projects To empower people in over 20 countries to improve their environment and livelihood.
WASTE provides meaningful and effective support to transform waste into business opportunity, as an entry point to reach our vision, which is for people in urbanised areas to live dignified lives in balance with their environment. This is accomplished by mobilising networks, ideas, knowledge, and money. Our consultancy and research projects focus on financing, sanitation and waste management. For example WASTE is involved in the […]
2007 UNESCO-IHE Research Projects The research aims at increasing access to safe, sufficient and affordable water for people. It is trans-disciplinary, holistic and applied, and is positioned mainly within an urban and peri-urban context.
The research carried out by UNESCO-IHE aims at increasing access to safe, sufficient and affordable water for people. It is trans-disciplinary, holistic and applied, and is positioned mainly within an urban and peri-urban context, including centralised and decentralised approaches, advanced and low-cost technologies, and engineered and natural systems. Beside technical, technological and engineering aspects of WASH, UNESCO-IHE also addresses its societal, economic and institutional aspects. […]
2005 Research Projects of ttz Bremerhaven ttz focuses its research activities mainly on decentralised processes which comprise the use of biofilters, constructed wetlands, or membrane technologies.
In the field of wastewater treatment and reutilisation, ttz focuses its research activities mainly on decentralised processes, e.g. through the use of biofilters, constructed wetlands, or membrane technologies. In cooperation with enterprises, associations and research partners around the globe, ttz develops, realises and introduces innovative ideas from these areas to the market in order to contribute to the growing demand for a sustainable use of […]
2005 TUHH Research Projects The Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection at the University TUHH conducts reseach in the fields of Terra Preta sanitation, oxidation processes eliminating recalcitrant organics, bioconversion and emission control.
The Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection at the University TUHH has been conducting research in wastewater treatment and sanitation since the early 1990s, and is currently working in the following areas: Resources Oriented Sanitation Systems (including Terra Preta Sanitation), Urban Environmental Management, Oxidation Processes Eliminating Recalcitrant Organics, Bioconversion and Emission Control
