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Our new Director Josien Sluijs & our Annual Report 2018 is out!
June 13, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Ms Josien Sluijs has been appointed as the new Director of Aqua for All as from the 1st of August 2019. She will take over the position of our present Director Sjef Ernes, who has decided to leave the organization as from July 2019. Ms Josien Sluijs has been…
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Our Annual Report 2018 is out!
June 12, 2019
We have learned over the years that projects (value), looking for money, is less effective than helping money that is looking for value. The challenge is to become more flexible and to find more space to move. For a long time we were under the impression that the financial world should get to…
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New Director Aqua for All
June 7, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Ms Josien Sluijs has been appointed as the new Director of Aqua for All as from the 1st of August 2019. She will take over the position of our present Director Sjef Ernes, who has decided to leave the organization per July 2019. Ms Josien Sluijs has…
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Festive Football for Water project launch in Homa Bay!
April 12, 2019
Since March 2018 the Dutch water utility company Dunea NV and Dutch organization Aqua for All started scoping opportunities to extend Dutch expertise in WASH management to Homa Bay County, Kenya. These scoping activities led to a series of projects with the objective to fast-track sustainable access to safely managed water and sanitation facilities in…
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World Water Day Event explores an agenda for opportunities
March 22, 2019
Breaking through existing power patterns, linking inclusion to climate and inequality, using local knowledge and bringing the human factor back to the floor. These were a few of the central messages during the World Water Day Event 2019, at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. The theme was ‘SDG6: an agenda for…
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CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS FOR THE TOILET ACCELERATOR!
February 28, 2019
If your work is in toilet innovation, sanitation service models, sanitary products, organic resource recovery, waste treatment, preventative and digital health, energy, cleaning services, feminine care, MHM, organic fertilisers, nutrient solutions… we want to hear from you! Since 2016 the Toilet Board Coalition’s specialised corporate Accelerator programme has been supporting entrepreneurs with bespoke mentorship, partnership…
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World Water Day event 2019: Leave no one behind
February 25, 2019
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is crystal clear: Water for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. Reaching the SDG6 targets means contributing to social development, economic stability, gender equality and environmental sustainability. SDG6 is a prerequisite to achieving the other SDGs and forms a real agenda for opportunities! Event ‘Leaving…
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Making ‘WASH everybody’s business works’!
February 25, 2019
Our Program Manager Hester Foppen is in Ethiopia for ‘Making WASH everybody’s business’, an approach developed by AMREF and Aqua for All. This weekend she met with these unemployed young men, living in a slum area in Addis Abababa, where they were given the opportunity to operate a public toilet. They have built five…
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Innovate4Water in Kisumu: local and international players explore opportunities for partnerships
February 21, 2019
More than 160 participants, representing (social) entrepreneurs, innovators, utilities, impact investors, financiers, local banks, NGOs etc. gathered at Innovate4Water in Kisumu (Kenya) on 6 and 7 February, to explore opportunities in the field of partnerships, financing and investments. The format of the event was a marketplace forum with short pitches and networking discussions. On 7…