1. Products & Solutions
- Market-based WASH products
- DEWATS: decentralised wastewater treatment
- Resource recovery, and the engineering design behind them
We don't start from scratch
Three constructed wetlands treating neighbourhood wastewater in Adama and Shashemene, and Toilet-in-a-Box made by local enterprises across two regions of Ethiopia.
Good solutions fail when one piece is missing
Communities rarely lack interest. They lack a complete product and a local market that can deliver it. We learned this building household sanitation, and it holds for water, waste and beyond.
What usually happens
- Partial products. A slab without the rest of the toilet, or a design without a local supplier.
- The family as its own contractor. Materials, transport and labour all arranged separately, so costs rise and work stalls.
- Projects end, markets vanish. Molds, skills and suppliers scatter when the funding stops.
- Built for yesterday's climate. Pits and tanks that flood, collapse in heavy rain or run dry, and release methane.
What we build instead
- A complete, standard product that local artisans can produce and install reliably.
- A local supply chain of producers, trained artisans and lenders, where each earns a fair margin.
- Capacity that stays. The market keeps working after any single programme ends.
- Designed for today's climate. Solutions that keep working through floods, drought and heat, with lower emissions.
What we do
Three things, always together, so a good design never stays a prototype.
2. Building the Ecosystem
- Molds, production standards and enterprise incubation
- Artisan training, demand creation and finance links
- Programme scoping and technical partnership
3. Climate-Smart Design
- Adaptation: solutions that keep working through floods, drought and heat
- Mitigation: lower emissions along the sanitation chain
- Climate risk assessments and climate-smart design
Our approach
Four steps learned in the field: understand the real bottleneck, engineer the missing product for local conditions and a changing climate, grow the local supply around it, then scale carefully.
Diagnose
Field scoping with households, suppliers, lenders and government, including climate hazards, to find the missing product and the broken steps.
Design and prototype
Engineer for field realities and climate hazards, build prototypes, and test them with artisans and real users.
Build the ecosystem
Equip and train local enterprises and artisans, and connect demand with finance.
Roll out and monitor
Start small, then scale by region, with photo-based quality tracking at every site.
Recognised nationally
Our team's market-based delivery model was honoured by both government and civil society in Ethiopia.
Featured model
Ethiopian Innovation Centre
Selected as the leading example of market-based sanitation and shown to ministers, sector leaders and national planners.
Second place nationally
CCRDA National Development Award
Runner-up among development projects nationwide, awarded by the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Associations.
Results from the field
2
Products proven and ready to scale
3
Constructed wetlands built
15+
Local enterprises and artisans trained
2
National recognitions
Who we work with
NGOs and donors
A technical partner that brings proven, climate-smart products and supply chains into your programmes.
Municipalities and utilities
Design, feasibility and climate risk assessments for decentralised wastewater and faecal sludge systems.
Local enterprises
Molds, production standards, training and a product that sells.
Private sector and investors
Commercially viable products with measurable social impact.
Don't reinvent the wheel. Build on what already works.
Tell us about your programme, city or enterprise and we'll show you how proven, climate-smart products and local ecosystems can fit.