The overall goal of the intervention is to analyse, pilot test and implement globally and at large scale recovery and safe reuse models of resources generated from liquid and solid waste streams in order to promote food security, public health, environmental protection and livelihood opportunities in poor urban and peri-urban areas in developing countries. This translates to the following two key objectives: (1) increase the scale and viability of productive reuse of water, nutrients, organic matter and energy from domestic and agro-industrial waste streams through the analysis, promotion and implementation of economically viable business models; (2) promote and ensure public health in the context of rapidly expanding use of wastewater, excreta and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture and protect vulnerable groups from specific health risks associated with this pattern of agricultural development.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner Foreign academic and research organisation Private sector United Nations Organization (UNO) Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research Swiss Private Sector World Health Organization
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    3’250’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    3’182’086
Project phases	Phase 2 01.05.2015 - 31.12.2020   (Completed) Phase 1 01.12.2011 - 30.06.2015   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY HEALTH
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Agricultural water resources Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development Infectious disease control
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Mandate without fiduciary fund Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F08146