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Enhancing Capacity for Adaptation to, and Mitigation of, Climate Change in Kibera, Nairobi

Closed
Combination
Water and sanitation
Call 1
Kenya
Time consumed
 
Start: 30-Sep-10 End: 30-Jul-12
Lead Nordic partner
Solvatten AB
Country of Lead Nordic partner
Sweden
Local partner(s)
Institute of Environment and Water (IEW), Revitalization of Indigenous Initiatives for Community Development (RINCOD)
NCF grant size
301,290
Total project cost
360,051
Methods
Training
Country of implementation:
Kenya
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Description

The project aims to secure access to safe water supply for about 13,000 residents of Kibera in a changing climate, and to build capacity for reduction of household greenhouse emissions for 2500 households. Kibera is the largest urban slum in Africa with an estimated population of about 800,000, and similar to other slums the poor households have insufficient water supply. Floods and drought are the...
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Objective

Increased households' adaptive capacity to cope the impacts of climate change on water quality, secure access to safe drinking water and warm water for 2500 households in Kibera, through use of an innovative, sustainable technology, reduction of households' daily energy consumption, increased understanding amongst the target population of the advantages and disadvantages of solar water treatments versus other methods of treating water and reduced incidence...
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Results

Solvatten AB and IEW have distributed the Solvatten® technology, which purifies water by harnessing energy from the sun, to 1,292 households in Kibera, Nairobi and later to 1,300 households in Meru, Mutomo and Mwingi areas as the project scope was expanded, and thereby helped secure nearly 13,000 people access to safe water.

Solvatten® is an innovative, but simple technology, which utilises solar radiation (UV and heat)...
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Relevant links
The inventor of Solvatten has been awarded 'Polhempriset' engineering price in Sweden (in Swedish), Solvatten AB, The Institute of Environment and Water

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