2012 - 2016 Evaluating the impact of the community based Environmental Health Promotion Program in Rwanda To generate evidence of the effectiveness and scalability of Community Health Clubs on health and behavioral outcomes.
2010 - 2015 Scaling the use of community chlorine dispensers To pilot different business models and partnerships in developing countries in order to scale up the use of chlorine dispensers which provide longer protection for safe water.
The BMGF grant that ran from 2010 to 2014 was used for the research to develop community chlorine dispensers for safe water. It was carried out by Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). A review of the evidence that came out of this (and other people’s) research is available here: http://www.evidenceaction.org/blog-full/chlorineevidence Evidence Action took over Dispensers for Safe Water explicitly to take it to scale. Evidence Action spun […]
2009 - 2015 Advancing the implementation of the Water and Sanitation Program Global Strategy To develop and disseminate best practices in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector by supporting the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).
Achieving the vision of the SDGs requires a bold new approach that integrates the varied disciplines within the water sector under the common goal of achieving a water-secure world for all. The World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which consists of world-renowned technical expertise, sector knowledge, and extensive in-country presence, has the potential to serve as an implementing arm of the SDGs. WSP’s integration into the Water GP brings a tremendous opportunity to leverage the […]
2010 - 2014 Support for scaling up rural sanitation To support the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in scaling up sanitation for the rural poor.
Achieving the vision of the SDGs requires a bold new approach that integrates the varied disciplines within the water sector under the common goal of achieving a water-secure world for all. The World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which consists of world-renowned technical expertise, sector knowledge, and extensive in-country presence, has the potential to serve as an implementing arm of the SDGs. WSP’s integration into the Water GP brings a tremendous opportunity to leverage the […]
2010 - 2015 Bolstering demand for improved sanitation when adoption decisions across households are inter-linked To provide clear actionable evidence for policymakers on how to increase the adoption of improved sanitary practices and technologies.
The purpose of the project is to provide clear actionable evidence for policymakers on how to increase the adoption of improved sanitary practices and technologies. Documents available for download in the library: 1 - Encouraging Sanitation Investment in the Developing World: A Cluster-Randomized Trial, Supplementary Materials by Raymond Guiteras (University of Maryland), James Levinsohn (Yale University), Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) - April 10, 2015 The Latrine Promotion Program […]
2011 - 2016 USAID development innovations ventures WSH collaboration To support a collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the identification, testing, and sustained uptake of evidence-based approaches to delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services to the poor
Development Innovation Ventures: DIV holds a year-round grant competition for innovative ideas, pilots and tests them using cutting-edge analytical methods, and scales solutions that demonstrate widespread impact and cost-effectiveness. DIV’s tiered-funding model, inspired by the venture capital experience, invests comparatively small amounts in relatively unproven concepts, and continues to support only those that prove they work. Visit the DIV portfolio to see the evidence-gathering and scale-up activities […]
2011 - 2015 Testing modified Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) for scalability The projects wants to improve the cost-effectiveness and scalability of the CLTS approach in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and worldwide.
Plan USA and its research partner, The Water Institute at UNC, are implementing a rigorous, research-based project with the overall goal of advancing global sanitation efforts by improving the cost-effectiveness and scalability of the CLTS approach. This goal will be pursued by collecting, evaluating, and disseminating practical lessons learned about overcoming common challenges to implementing CLTS at scale, based on applied research from pilot interventions […]
2010 - 2017 Assessing the effectiveness of improved sanitation on diarrhoea and helminth infection: A cluster-randomized, controlled field trial In Orissa, India To provide rigorous evidence on the health impacts of demand-led efforts to end open defecation in India.
The main research question for the study was to assess the effectiveness of a rural household sanitation intervention to prevent diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition. The primary outcomes of the study included 7-day prevalence of reported diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years and the secondary binary health outcomes (all age diarrhoea prevalence, helminths). Secondary health outcomes included Health of age z scores […]
2012 - 2018 Supporting SuSanA and the broader WASH Community of Practice through the SuSanA on-line platform To improve the effectiveness of the SuSanA platform as a knowledge management resource that promotes increased collaboration and information-sharing
Central to the project are three studies, connected to the three outcomes described below in the Objectives, the results of which will inform decisions about improved planning and implementation of SuSanA. The first study looked at how online user experiences can be enhanced for SuSanA’s online knowledge-management resource ( www.susana.org ) and already lively discussion forum ( www.forum.susana.org ). Through competitive bidding this project was […]
2011 - 2015 Expanding women’s access to safe, affordable sanitary pads from renewable resources ZanaAfrica Group seeks to shape the feminine hygiene industry in East Africa to unlock the market for 1 million women and girls by 2020, delivering aspirational sanitary pads coupled with responsive reproductive health education.
The BMG grants enabled us to do product development to figure out lower cost pad alternatives, to understand the needs of women and girls through testing various pad configurations, and develop strategies to solve the challenges of access to pads and health information (cost and availability) The funding additionally, enabled us to build a strong focused team on the ground which has been instrumental in achieving […]
2011 - 2015 Conversion of human waste into biochar using pyrolysis at a community-scale facility in Kenya To design, build, and test a self-contained system that can pyrolyze (decompose organic material at high temperatures without oxygen) human solid waste into a type of biological charcoal (biochar) that captures and stores carbon.
In the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge (RTTC), researchers from all over the world are challenged to come up with a radical new technology for treating human waste, and eventually making it accessible for the whole world. Just treatment is not enough though; the solution has to be affordable, and has to produce valuable elements from the waste - either energy, clean water, nutrients, or all. […]
2013 - 2015 SanMark-CITY: Intelligent Design in Urban Sanitation Marketing - Fostering Adaptation and Evolution of Innovative Technologies for Urban On-Site Sanitation in Bangladesh To explore the critical gap in introducing, adapting and sustaining affordable on-site sanitation technologies on a large scale and to adapt and develop commercialization channels for 4 improved on-site sanitation technologies.
Drawing on its growing thought leadership in combining sanitation technology, ICCO Cooperation along with two other implementing partners i.e. International Development Enterprises (iDE) and Dushtha Shasthya Kendra (DSK) proposes to “adapt and evolve” four promising SanTechs similar to those developed through the Gates Foundation’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenges (RTTC) and Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) to the realities and market systems of urban Bangladesh through the […]
2008 - 2016 Performance assessment systems (PAS) for urban water supply and sanitation To develop and test, through implementation in two states in India, a performance assessment system (PAS) for urban water supply and sanitation. Working hypothesis: A well performing and sustainable PAS will make service delivery more efficient.
The Performance Assessment System (PAS) Project has developed appropriate methods and tools to measure, monitor and improve delivery of water and sanitation in urban India. The Project has three major components of performance measurement, monitoring and improvement. It covers all urban local bodies (ULBs) in Gujarat and Maharashtra. The project team has worked with the state and local governments to institutionalize the performance assessment system […]
2013 - 2017 Demonstration of pro-poor market-based solutions for fecal sludge management in urban centers of Southern Bangladesh To demonstrate financially viable and sustainable Fecal sludge management solutions for cities and towns in Bangladesh
The project has developed and tested city-wide sanitation service delivery models for the two main types of urban centers in Bangladesh (city corporations and municipality) and thereby directly improving environmental health and well-being of the population, as well as demonstrating to sector stakeholders: • How to integrate FSM business models that contributes to achieving city wide service delivery faster • which roles the private sector […]
2012 - 2016 Sanitation Research Fund of BMGF/WRC (SRFA): Knowledge-based Solutions for Onsite Dry Sanitation Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa Characterisation of pit contents and developing innovative techniques for pit desludging and subsequent sludge management in low income urban areas.
The SRFA Project was established through a USD 2.5 Million grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The project aims to stimulate local competency and capacity in the sanitation sector in the Eastern and Southern African Regions, and to provide solutions based on good scientific evidence related to up-scaling dry sanitation technologies. Ten research contracts will be issued, on a competitive basis, to […]
2013 - 2015 Strengthening the Operation and Maintenance Sector for Servicing Decentralized Urban Sanitation Infrastructure in Karnataka, India To support improved O&M services for decentralized urban sanitation infrastructure in one city in Karnataka.
The project seeks to develop government and private sector capacity to address the absence of professional, and an enabling environment to provide professional O&M services for urban sanitation infrastructure,especially for decentralised and onsite wastewater treatment systems.
2013 - 2015 WASH United's fun, game and sport-based activities to raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene Raising the awareness for sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda among the general public and among poor and marginalized people through the use of power of sports superstars, interactive games and positive communication
Under the grant, WASH United has implemented the following activities in the target countries of Uganda, Ethiopia, Lesotho and Kenya: i) Public awareness campaigns ii) Media work and iii) WASH in Schools (except Ethiopia). In India, where we had originally only planned a small test campaign on cricket grew, our idea for a travelling WASH carnival caught the imagination of the entire sector. In the end, […]
2011 - 2016 Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in Sub‐Saharan Africa and South‐East Asia Postgraduate research projects in the fields of smart sanitation provision for slums, emergency sanitation, resource oriented decentralized sanitation, low cost wastewater collection and treatment, faecal sludge management
In 2011, UNESCO-IHE and the BMGF joined efforts in combining research and capacity building on sanitation in a multi-million dollar project reaching out to Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced this grant at the AfricaSan conference in Rwanda launching its Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene strategy. The goal is to provide a large impulse in postgraduate sanitation education and […]
2010 - 2015 Catalyzing sanitation businesses (market‐based approach to sanitation businesses in developing countries) Sanitation as a Business (SAAB) is intended to explore different methodologies for catalyzing and facilitating sanitation businesses targeting low-income markets of developing countries.
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Water For People is implementing Sanitation as a Business (SAAB), a market‐based approach to sanitation intended to explore different methodologies for catalyzing and facilitating sanitation businesses in developing countries. It is a 4-year project ending July 2014 under which Water For People is working through Business Development Service (BDS) firms. BDS are for‐profit, private sector firms, […]
2011 - 2012 Using waste to move waste (using urine to flush waste) Designing a device that would utilize urine to flush waste through a pour-flush (PF) toilet thus reducing or eliminating the need for scarce flush water during the dry season in developing countries
The project involved designing a device that would utilize urine to flush waste through a pour-flush (PF) toilet thus reducing or eliminating the need for scarce flush water during the dry season in developing countries. The project team hypothesized such a device would reduce the burden of fetching water from long distances during the dry-season and thus reduce the tendency for rural villagers to return […]
