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About Henk Holtslag
We disseminate so called SMARTechs, being Simple, Marketbased, Affordable, Repairable Technologies like manual well drilling, EMAS en Rope pumps, Tube groundwater recharge, household water filters etc.
An example is the rope pump, a simple hand pump: 130.000 installed worldwide. However a lesson learned is, "Simple is not easy". There were many failures due to construction errors and the wrong introduction of this pump. Also simple technologies need to be of good quality and need good management. That is why we started SMART Centres, WASH training centres in Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and starting in 5 other countries. These centres train the local private sector in technical and business skills.
We think that building local capacity in affordable WASH technologies and approaches is a very, if not the most cost-effective way to reach SDG6 in rural areas but also to reach related SDGs for poverty, food and employment.
Interested? Read the paper "SMART centres". See; www.smartcentregroup.com .
Looking forward to learn from and cooperate with like minded organisations and people.
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Devendra Kumar Jha
Senior Divisionla Engineer (SDE), MInistry of Water Supply , Department of Water Supply and Sewerage, Ministry of Water Supply (MOWS) , Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSSM) , Government of Nepal , Kathmandu
Adegbite Afeez Ayoade
Director, Academic Planning, Ogun State College of Health Technology, Ilese Ijebu
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Interested in a cost-effective way to reach SDG6 and water related SDGs in rural areas?
Read the paper SMART Centres.
These are WASH centres who train the local private sector in Simple, Marketbased, Affordable, Repairable Technologies. Options that can reach "the last mile" and stimulate self supply, people investing themselves. So contributing to SDG6 but also SDG1, SDG2 and SDG8.
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Track 4 Wed 27 May: Good practices in implementing SDGs - capacity gaps and needsRecent Conversations
Can vocational training institutes like WET Centres, SMART Centres be financially Self sustaining? Organisations like the World Bank expect water trainings institutes to become independent from donations but is that realistic?
Vocational skills like production, installation, repairing of WatSan technologies and infrastructure are essential to reach SDG6. Institutes like WET Centres, SMART Centres, EMAS centre build local WASH capacity in technical and business skills. To get funds from larger organisations like the World Bank, it is expected that they become financially self sustaining, meaning that they can operate without subsidies or donations.This maybe partly possible. For instance SMART Centres generate income by asking donors to fund scholarships to train welldrillers or do projects like 10 wells for a donor. They than subcontract drillers they have trained and so use these funds to do quality control. The entrepreneurs they train become 100% self sustaining. However like any vocational education, WASH trainings centres need structural funding from government or others to operate. The long term goal would be to get the specific skills and knowledge of these WASH trainings centres into the national vocational education. Would others agree? Henk Holtslag www.smartcentregroup.com
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