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Innovative SMART Centre Approach for SDG6 and Job Creation

Learn about the SMART Centre approach focusing on household water treatment, sustainable communal supply, and self-supply to reduce rural poverty and create jobs. Examples include manual drilling, pumps, and filters. Discover how this approach can scale up and make a positive impact on achieving SDG6.

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Innovative SMART Centre Approach for SDG6 and Job Creation

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  1. The SMART Centre approach An innovative way to reach SDG6 and create jobs by training local entrepreneurs Stockholm Water Week Henk Holtslag MetaMeta henkholtslag49@gmail.com 28-08-2016

  2. Goals • Reach “the last mile” • Increase sustainability communal supply • Scale up Self-supply • Reduce rural poverty, • Increase food security • Create jobs If you would get a large fund, in which 3 actions would you invest to reach these goals?

  3. The SMART Centre approach Simple, Market based, Affordable, RepairableTechnologies Combination of: • Innovativetechnologies (SMARTechs) • Training thelocal private sector • Focus on Household Water Treatment • Scaleup Self-supply

  4. Examples of SMARTechsManual drilling. Sludging, Jetting, EMAS, Baptist, Mzuzu. Cost/well of 40 m. > $150

  5. Pumps & storageEMAS, Rope, Solar pumps. Depths to 40 m. >$50Wire cement tanks, 3R, Tube recharge

  6. Irrigation, Household treatmentFilters 2 x more effective than Chlorine

  7. Self-supply water ladder worked in Europe, Can it work in Africa? Motor pump Electric pump Protected Unprotected

  8. How to scale up? Learnfrom past Simple is not easy Invest in 3T’s • Training • T……… • T………

  9. Effects SMART Centres Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique,. • 40% costreductionrural water supplyFrom $ 4000 to $1500 per system • Increasedfunctionality; 85% Communal 95% Self-supply • IncreasedSelf–supply5000 pumps soldto families. incomes, food • Profit basedsustainability, private sector • 45 SMEs, 150 new jobs directly 8000 new jobs indirectly www.smartcentregroup.com

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