Our FINISH Mondial programme team recntly hosted a webinar on Rethinking Sanitation through Circularity in Africa, bringing together sector experts and practitioners to explore how circular economy approaches can transform sanitation systems into opportunities for resource recovery, entrepreneurship, and sustainable service delivery. The discussion featured valuable insights and practical experiences from a diverse array of stakeholders,…
Piloting accessible sanitation technologies One of the main reasons for lack of sanitation coverage is unaffordability (especially for peri-urban and rural populations in low- and middle-income countries). Lack of innovation on reducing the cost of sanitation is a challenge WASTE has been tackling for decades helping to drive down costs. Why? We strive to make…
The idea underlying the Complementary Local Urban Environmental Services (CLUES) tool is that some cities have reasonably functioning solid waste management services and less functioning faecal sludge management services or vice versa. CLUES asks the questions: what can waste chains learn from one another in any city and what can we learn comparing these on…
In partnership with the Rural Development Organization (RDO) Trust WASTE developed a model for producing high-quality co-compost from wastewater and faecal sludge for the cultivation of exotic vegetables by women farmers in the district of Nilgiris, India. To enable target consumers to buy the co-compost, WASTE implemented its Diamond Model to provide tools for private financing and…