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Omni-Processoromni-Processor Mag BouesTrimestrial magazine of the ONAS FSM program N°03 July 2014 DakarDakar teststests thethe omni-processoromni-processor Social business and sanitation, A new tool Dr. Doulaye Koné, Project Manager at the Bill and •• ReceivingReceiving desludgingdesludging servicesservices Melinda Gates withwith aa phonephone callcall Foundation Now a reality in Dakar "We want to help make sanitation a market sector" summary Editorial Dossier Collective sanitation and management of fecal sludge in Dakar Access to adequate sanitation is a major component of poverty reduction Believing because sanitation is more than ever related to health, social services, the environment, in short to development. p 26 in innovation Following the scale-up of the call center and the first trends beginning to confirm a promising future with SMS text messages and calls with an P. 03 Editorial increasing conversion rate of 8% for text messages, ONAS and its fecal P. 04 News P. 04 tReinvent The Toilet Fair the Promotion of Innovation Sustainable access of the sludge management program have already started working, with their P. 06 tSecond Steering Committee of the PSMBV poor to adequate sanitation financial partner, on the experimentation of the first omni-processor: an P. 07 t Innovative Sanitation Technologies in Flooded Areas: Two Prototypes Selected innovative treatment system of fecal sludge. It is a revolution, but above P. 08 tSubmission of the first funding application files all, it is a big step towards the transformation of sanitation into a business P. 9 Project dynamic P. 9 tOrdering desludging services on the phone in Dakar, sector. now a reality This latest-generation machine with its reduced dimensions will be tested P. 11 tParticipatory Monitoring and Evaluation (SEP) and Decision Making P. 14 t The WSA agency in the PSMBV project in Dakar in late 2014. It will allow the production of by-products from P. 16 tPanafrican Agency for Water and Sanitation in Africa (WSA) sludge and even solid waste, such as approximately 1,000 megawatt hours of electricity per year, hot water and ash P. 17 Innovation P. 17 tSustainable access of the poor to adequate sanitation One of the main challenges of the that can be used as fertilizer for agriculture or in the manufacture of breeze blocks for construction. Innovation P. 18 tInnovative Sanitation Technologies (IST)in Dakar’s Suburbs : project “Improvement of sanitation for Firmly installed in a dynamic of innovation, the fecal sludge management program is preparing for an experiment A real need for populations living in flood-prone areas households living in flood-prone and P. 19 tReduction of electricity costs : A New Approach to behavioral flooded areas in Pikine and Guédiawaye in areas of Dakar that are inaccessible to conventional vacuum trucks, with the omni-Ingestor. This new truck is change (Dakar, Senegal),” is the implementa- another invention being finalized with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; it will enable, with P. 21t3"/"43FTFBSDI5FDIOPMPHZ tion of the sustainable business model adequate equipment, work in narrow streets and the on-site treatment of desludging products in order to separate P. 24t"EEJOHWBMVFUPTMVEHFGSPNXBTUFXBUFSPSEFTMVEHJOHT knownas “sustainable livelihoods busi- P. 26 Dossier liquid from solid. P. 26 t Collective sanitation and management of fecal sludge in Dakar ness (SLB).” p 17 P. 33 Focus Before the arrival of bio-digesters to the new dumping site in Keur Massar, for the transformation of fecal sludge P. 33 tInnovative technology for the value addition to fecal sludge into biogas and the production of fertilizers for soil amendment, the negative impact of the imbalance in the fecal P. 35 Interview P. 35 tDr. Doulaye Koné, Project Manager at the Bill and Melinda sludge value chain, characterized by difficulties in operating treatment plants, is already being solved. Gates Foundation Indeed, the delegation of the operation and management of the three existing plants in Dakar to the private sector, following a call for tender, has put an end to a series of management deficits. ONAS is now beginning to see the positive impact of this delegation, having received payment for the license and payment of a monthly fee of 286,539 FCFA, i.e. 3,438,468 FCFA a year, from the three existing plants in Dakar. Reinvent The Toilet Fair the These amounts should definitely increase with all the actions foreseen in the program to increase the quantities of Promotion of Innovation sludge emptied and to lower the cost of desludgings. The New Delhi fair, held in March 2014, was co-organized by the Depart- Add to this, last but not least, the introduction of new types of toilets in flood-prone areas and the renewal of the ment of Biotechnology - Government of India - and the Bill & Melinda desludgers’ fleet with the establishment of the guarantee fund of which initial funding is already available. Gates Foundation, with the support of the Indian Ministry of Urban Deve- lopment. p 4 News News Bassirou SOW Director of the publication : Alioune Badara DIOP General Coordinator : Dr. Mbaye MBEGUERE Expert IEC/ PSMBV Editor in chief : Bassirou SOW Innovative technology for the Participated in this issue: value addition to fecal sludge Abdoulaye FAYE, Ousmane SOW, Bill & Melinda Gates Founda- Moussa A. BA, tion has given ONAS the oppor- Dr. Astou FALL, Ousmane GUEYE, tunity to test the first prototype Moussa SECK, of the omni-processor in Dakar. Bassirou SOW In fact, this facility will be Abdoulaye FAYE, Focus installed in one of the fecal Mbaye Babacar DIAGNE, Moustapha LO, sludge treatment plants (FSTP) Dr. Becaye Sidi DIOP, at the end of the year to be Gaspard BADJI, operational in early 2015. Dr. Mbaye MBEGUERE, p 33 Cheikh SAMB, Dr. Doulaye KONE, 3 P. H. DODANE News Reinvent The Toilet Fair Dr. Mbaye Mbéguéré the Promotion of Innovation Une vue du Omni processor It is worth noting that in 2011 already, Through this program, the Bill and The next toilet fair is expected to be the “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” Melinda Gates Foundation are looking held in China. The organization of After the first fair in Seattle in 2011 The New Delhi fair, held in March bute to the growth of business from program of the Bill & Melinda Gates for the toilets of the future, a need these meetings is a very important where the first prize was awarded to 2014, was co-organized by the sanitation products. These include: 'PVOEBUJPO MBVODIFE B NBKPS DIBM “for public health and human dignity” initiative so that access to improved the California Institute of Techno- Department of Biotechnology – t 5IF 0NOJ *OHFTUPS EFWFMPQFE CZ lenge called “Reinvent the Toilet” to because lack of access to latrines is technologies remains permanently logy for a new toilet powered by solar Government of India – and the Bill & Janicki in the U.S. and capable of offer sustainable sanitation solutions “an economic and public health affordable for poor countries. energy and producing hydrogen and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the transforming sludge into energy and to the 2.5 billion people in the world burden in poor communities.” “Toilets electricity, researchers, politicians support of the Indian Ministry of enabling integrated waste manage- who do not have access to safe are very important for public health and experts in the fields of water and Urban Development. It was an oppor- ment (see article elsewhere), drinking water and improved and and, when you think about it, for Dr. Mbaye Mbéguéré sanitation in over 45 nations agreed tunity for researchers who received t5IF#JPmMUPJMFUTZTUFNEFWFMPQFECZ affordable sanitation. human dignity,” writes Bill Gates on PSMBV Coordinator to meet again in New Delhi, India to grants from the Foundation to present B(IBOBJBOmSNXIPTFPCKFDUJWFJTUP his website thegatesnotes.com. “The take stock of the progress made and their technological inventions that can make feces completely disintegrate, Grants were awarded to researchers flush toilets we have in our rich see the innovations underway. change sanitation systems in deve- with almost zero sludge production, from around the world – working on countries are (...) impossible to use for loping countries. We have selected a t5IF -PPXBUU XIJDI JT B TZTUFN UIBU the basic engineering processes – for 40% of the world population, because few inventions that align with the does not require water and is capable safe and sustainable management of people often do not have access to goals of treatment and value addition of producing energy and fertilizers. human waste, on the basis of innova- water, sewers, electricity or waste developed by ONAS, and that contri- tive approaches. treatment systems,” he says. 4 5 News Innovative Sanitation Technologies SecondSecond SteeringSteering CommitteeCommittee ofof thethe PSMBVPSMBV in Flooded Areas: Two Prototypes Selected Satisfaction and continued efforts The committee for the evaluation of areas include two major (technical context of the target population. examples of innovative sanitation and socio-economic) obstacles that The development of these criteria was The second meeting of the Steering Concerning value addition to sludge The committee has also asked the technologies eventually selected two must be taken into account. Indeed, it a major innovation in this project. Committee was an opportunity to through biogas, the committee noted coordinating unit of the program, in prototypes early May 2014. These is necessary to find technical solutions encourage and congratulate the that the reuse of the digestate, which case they are unable to know the exact prototypes could potentially be tested that can resist floods. From a socio- These criteria were used to develop implementation of the Fecal Sludge greatly increases crop yields, should be volume of a pit for a good pricing of in a flood-prone area in Dakar. This is economic point of view, affordable the terms of reference of the the result of a long process of five sanitation would help the low-income international competitive bidding, Management Program (PSMBV).
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