📋 Tender Overview
Equitable access to safe water and sanitation facilities and services is by far not achieved and a stronger push on multiple levels will be necessary over the next decade to reach SDG 6. This includes developing and using innovative technologies, based on applied research, to foster affordable and sustainable solutions for increased access to safe water and adequate sanitation. To this aim, the SDC continues its fruitful collaboration with the Swiss Research Institute Eawag.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Water
Water sanitation
Water supply
01.08.2022 - 31.12.2026
CHF 3’288’000
The project in brief
Background Although access to safe drinking water and sanitation has been recognised as a Human Right since 2010, 2 billion people still lacked safely managed drinking water, and an estimated 4 billion people still do not have safely managed sanitation. Data shows sharp geographic, sociocultural and economic disparities in access leading to health threats, especially with the poor, marginalized and vulnerable groups. A lot therefore remains to be done.
Objectives A water secure world, where people have the knowledge and capacity to live healthy lives with safely managed services (safe water, solid waste management and sanitation) and the means to recover and utilise resources.
Target groups · residents of urban/peri-urban areas/selected small towns in Sub-Saharan
Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America · national and local utilities and authorities, specialized NGO’s and universities
in these regions · for capacity development/knowledge dissemination: practitioners, students,
academics, development partners and authorities world-wide, with special foci
on Central Asia and MENA region (products in Arabic and Russian foreseen)
Medium-term outcomes Outcome 1: Improved and equitable access to safely managed water Outcome 2: Improved and equitable access to safely managed environmental sanitation, considering circular economy principles Outcome 3: Integrated, inclusive planning for safely managed water and waste services is available and applied in small towns of Sub-Saharan Africa Outcome 4: Knowledge and expertise/training content is used and applied in practice by students and development practitioners
Results Expected results: · Recommendations on optimal degree of treatment decentralization for
rural/small-town piped water supply available · Solutions for dynamic operation of faecal sludge treatment · A validated integrated planning approach for safely managed water and
waste services in small towns for national/regional uptake · Improved uptake and application of developed knowledge (knowledge
brokerage)
Results from previous phases: Main results of the first phase include the production and dissemination of key water and sanitation sector publications and repositories such as the
