Big wins for WASTE's Take-a-Stake Fund & FINISH Mondial programmes

The WASTE team is hard at work, celebrating World Toilet Day and preparing for 2021 with renewed energy, funding and support for two of its dynamic programmes. We are proud to announce that the WASTE-founded programme, FINISH Mondial, has secured €20 million in funding for its next phase (2021-25). The 6-country programme is working towards the inclusive scale of local circular sanitation economies. Simultaneously, WASTE has also been granted €5 million to set up a new Impact Investment Fund, the Take-a-Stake Fund, for small and growing businesses in the water, sanitation and waste sectors in developing countries and emerging markets.

Beyond toilets: Celebrating World Toilet Day by showcasing our integrated approach to sanitation & waste management

The following 5-part WASH waste blog series details the challenges & opportunities for waste management and the intersection of faecal & solid waste. This series aims to demonstrate opportunities for integrating FSM & SWM to improve how our world operates and create financial value from these value chains with a holistic approach to the circular sanitation economy. WASTE advisers Priska Prasetya, Sophie van den Berg, Verele de Vreede & Lauren Pope (eds.) present this collaboration with Kim Worsham (FLUSH), Cuthbert A. Onikute (DalO Systems formerly Dechets a l’Or), and Eline Bakker (Consultant) in honour of World Toilet Day.

We Have A (Waste) Problem

Across the world today, 4.5 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation and in low-income countries, only 50% of waste is collected. Lack of source segregation affects waste treatment plants’ operational efficiencies, costs, as well as the quality and quantity of products like co-compost and recyclable waste streams.

Source Separation Is Waste’s Achilles Heel

Delve into the importance of waste segregation to facilitate linking the two sectors in part 2. Case studies show good examples of how full community participation is not only possible, but crucial for success.

Circular (Waste) Economy Business Models

Blog 3 highlights opportunities to integrate solid waste and faecal sludge management to create effective business models and the importance of government policies in the sector.

Business Models in Practice

Read more about just how the day-to-day operations of an integrated waste management system really works in this fourth installment.

Increasing Integrated
Waste Impact

WASTE’s tool development in practice, via its Collaborative Local Urban Environmental Services (CLUES) City Assessment, is showcased in this final blog.

WASTE's track record and partners have been highlighted in the newly launched Netherlands WASH Timeline. The timeline is part of a series on prominent international cooperation topics, created by the NICC. You can now take a virtual journey through Dutch contribution to development and the WASH sector.