The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has
announced a new funding
opportunity under its Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program which works with
partners wot develop sustainable sanitation services that work for everyone.
Under this new funding, the Foundation is seeking Letters of Inquiry (LOI) for
the third round of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.
The
Reinvent the Toilet Challenge is designed to prototype a means of dealing
effectively and cost-efficiently with human waste for the 2.5 billion people on
earth who currently lack access to safe and affordable sanitation.
Successful
applicants will participate in the next phase of the Reinvent the Toilet
Challenge by designing, prototyping and testing entirely stand-alone,
self-contained, practical sanitation modules which intake bodily wastes or
fecal sludge collected from pit latrines and septic tanks and swiftly dispose
of them without any incoming water piping, outgoing sewer piping or electric or
gas utility services. These modules must intake all outputs of the serviced
population – ultimately at single-residence scales (smaller-scale individual
family toilet solutions) or group of households (larger-scale neighborhood
fecal sludge processor solutions)– with minimal module footprints and assured
biosafety. The anticipated capital and operational cost for the final products
(commercial units) is expected to be less than $0.05/user/day, both for the
family and neighborhood solutions. The design should anticipate the effects and
fate of complementary sanitary products entering the system such as paper,
cloth, sand, and other personal hygiene products and chemicals.
This
RFP will use a mandatory two-step application process. The first step requires
the submission of a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) in the form of a 5 page concept
note, detailed in the RFLOI Overview and Guidelines. After evaluation of all
LOIs received, the foundation will contact those applicants who are eligible
and have projects of further interest to complete step two—the submission of a
full proposal. If
invited to submit a full proposal, instructions on the preparation of the
proposal will be provided at the time of invitation.
The
deadline to submit applications is 8 November 2012. For more information, visit
this link.
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