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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. Goals. Reach “the last mile” Increase sustainability communal supply
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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
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?
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
Examples of SMARTechsManual drilling. Sludging, Jetting, EMAS, Baptist, Mzuzu. Cost/well of 40 m. > $150
Pumps & storageEMAS, Rope, Solar pumps. Depths to 40 m. >$50Wire cement tanks, 3R, Tube recharge
Irrigation, Household treatmentFilters 2 x more effective than Chlorine
Self-supply water ladder worked in Europe, Can it work in Africa? Motor pump Electric pump Protected Unprotected
How to scale up? Learnfrom past Simple is not easy Invest in 3T’s • Training • T……… • T………
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