Bara Wahbeh, the CEO of the Jordan-based sanitation enterprise AKYAS is the winner of this year’s Sarphati Sanitation Challenge. In this interview with Aqua for All, he talks about his award-winning toilet system for communities without access to sewage systems, the taboos around sanitation and the challenges and rewards of being a sanitation innovator. Read the interview.
Find out what we are up to at World Water Week: https://mailchi.mp/e653e4bb96dc/world-water-week-for-wash-entrepreneurs
Many of our members have already been active in the region for several years and we have recently launched our first joint initiatives. Find out more in the lines below. YWS and cewas support 18 pilot projects in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire Two west-African editions of the Young Water Fellowship (YWF), a programme providing training...
SWEP to untap potential of innovative WASH entrepreneurs in the region Collaborating to create strong WASH entrepreneurship ecosystems has been at the heart of what we have been doing with the SWEP from our early days in 2017 until now. Since being joined by several new members, this mission of ours has gained even greater...
Avant de lancer sa propre entreprise sociale, Oklin Kone a travaillé durant plusieurs années pour une ONG active dans le domaine de la santé au niveau mondial. Profondément touché par les conditions sanitaires qu’il a rencontrées dans le nord de son pays, la Côte d’Ivoire, Oklin a décidé de passer à l’action en montant son...
Video (subtitles in French): Episode 5: Measuring Impact as a WASH Business Episode 4: Finding and keeping great staff for your WASH Business Episode 3: Raising investment for your WASH Businesses Episode 2: Partnering with the public sector Episode 1: Raising Grants for WASH Businesses
Muthi Nhlema has spent most of his working life in Malawi’s development sector. Bothered by the lack of urgency around certain practices and outcomes in the field and the cases of “cosmetic charity” he witnessed, he created his own social business BASEflow in 2017. He wanted it to be the organisation that is brave enough...
Creative solutions for challenging times! In the second part of our panorama of innovative water and sanitation business solutions, we asked Flowless and NAWASSCOAL to tell us more about their experience with COVID-19 and how they adapted their business over the past few months. Read more. Flowless – Smart Water Quality and Flow Management (Palestine) Flowless is a...
Creative solutions for challenging times In the past few months, many of the entrepreneurs in our network have been giving everything to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, using their creativity, adaptability and flexibility to come up with new business models and new ways to help their battered communities. Have a look at our panorama of innovative...
The current COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on the economy like probably no crisis before it. Across the world and across all sectors, businesses are hit by the consequences of prolonged lockdowns and a halting global economy. WASH businesses are no exception. Aside from entrepreneurs who are involved in disinfectant production and for whom...
