I had the honor to sit with these three Beautiful Toilet pioneers a couple weeks ago, as they hatched this idea for collaboration. I would point out a couple additional factors I find compelling:
* Each of the 3 has been very successful in increasing the actual use of clean toilets and sanitation in schools, poor communities, and urban areas in their country. This Changemakers entry doesn't list impact yet, because they are just launching this pan-Africa collaboration of entrepreneurs, but past impact in their individual work in each country is impressive.
* One impressive element is that each of the three has implemented local economic models which result in the combination of local jobs and clean use and maintenance. They have each succeeded at the challenging "B" behavioral issues in the ACBD model they describe in this entry. None of this is done through charity, it is done through sustainable local enterprises that are succeeding in three different countries.
* Not just their ideas, but their practical experience and successes, combine a fascinating array of issues of toilet Architecture/design (to match local preferences, cost effectiveness, recyclable plastics, design that helps remove social stigmas), rapid construction and deployment, behavioral support that works, keen knowledge of waste disposal issues and opportunities, and insights for wrapping in clean water for sanitation to all these elements of their work.
The prospect of three successful pioneers collaborating to take their work to a new scale across African countries is particularly exciting to me.
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I had the honor to sit with these three Beautiful Toilet pioneers a couple weeks ago, as they hatched this idea for collaboration. I would point out a couple additional factors I find compelling:
* Each of the 3 has been very successful in increasing the actual use of clean toilets and sanitation in schools, poor communities, and urban areas in their country. This Changemakers entry doesn't list impact yet, because they are just launching this pan-Africa collaboration of entrepreneurs, but past impact in their individual work in each country is impressive.
* One impressive element is that each of the three has implemented local economic models which result in the combination of local jobs and clean use and maintenance. They have each succeeded at the challenging "B" behavioral issues in the ACBD model they describe in this entry. None of this is done through charity, it is done through sustainable local enterprises that are succeeding in three different countries.
* Not just their ideas, but their practical experience and successes, combine a fascinating array of issues of toilet Architecture/design (to match local preferences, cost effectiveness, recyclable plastics, design that helps remove social stigmas), rapid construction and deployment, behavioral support that works, keen knowledge of waste disposal issues and opportunities, and insights for wrapping in clean water for sanitation to all these elements of their work.
The prospect of three successful pioneers collaborating to take their work to a new scale across African countries is particularly exciting to me.
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