News & Publications
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We are honored to have won the Innovation Award at the UNC Water & Health Conference Innovation Showcase!
In addition, we have started a series of posts capturing our key learnings from the intensive one-week conference, which brought together insights from WASH practitioners, scholars and many domain experts. Enjoy!
[2024]
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Among many esteemed colleagues, implementers and advisors in emergency WASH space, AKYAS has presented our latest innovations and our learning at #EEHF 2024 at Sandec-Eawag, Zurich, Switzerland. One of our learning being the evolution from a typical urine-diverting dry toilet to a “liquids-divertin” toilet pan, and then to a back-end “EDU” Effluent Diversion Unit that overcomes social acceptance challenges.
Read more here in our #1 post about our top picks from different speakers at EEHF and #2 post about our presentation and feedback from experts![2024]
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Read more about a market-related diagnosis that was curated by BRAC and have a snapshot of the AKYAS system from the second half of 2023 - before our latest upgrades from the market assessment process!
Download the report by our partner here.
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With the support of Aqua for All, AKYAS is implementing our initiative with a market-based sanitation approach. Our partner, BRAC, is supporting the project from Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar.
[2023]
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It has been a delight for AKYAS to work with Mutinta N Munkombwe from Cranfield University, UK, on her MSc thesis on households’ willingness to pay for access to safe sanitation services in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The study was built on the survey by AKYAS.
We congratulate Mutinta for her amazing analytical work!
Reach out to us if you’d like to learn more about the study![2023]
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Download our report “An alternative on-site faecal sludge management solution - Analysis from the piloting of AKYAS, a new container-based sanitation product”
Read more here
[2023]
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AKYAS is one of the top 10 finalists of the Bayer Social Innovation Award in Water and Sanitation by Bayer Foundation!
[2022]
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“A Sani-entrepreneur’s Perspective: Advances in decentralised sanitation to move the needle on SDG 6.2”
Read more from here.
[Apr 2022]
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Bara, our co-founder, speaks in the podcast by the Global Infrastructure Hub on innovating for decentralised sanitation infrastructure.
Listen here
[2021]
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Co-founder Bara is interviewed on “Not from the Silicon Valley”. Listen to some of the personal stories of Bara’s from before where before “everything” started! Funny, intense, pulling at heartstrings - not for the most faint-hearted!
Listen to the 1-hour interview here.
[2021]
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AKYAS is thrilled to be the winner of the Sarphati Sanitation Challenge. We are proud to be participating the global challenge alongside 10 remarkable enterprises in sanitation, going through the training by Accenture together, and having further progressed into the top 5.
Grateful to be given a big push to continue on with our innovation and implementation work!
Read more about the challenge by Aqua for All and Worldwater.net here.
Watch a short footage of AKYAS on “TV” before the winner announcement (and we had no clue!)
[2021]
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The Young Social Entrepreneur organised by the Singapore International Foundation selected AKYAS as one of the winners and will further support AKYAS in our journey of impact.
Read more here.
[2021]
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AKYAS launches in Zaatari Refugee Camp with support from Oxfam in Jordan.
Read more from the news coverage from the Toilet Board Coalition here!
[2021]
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Read more from our Facebook page or Instagram for a series of visual posts!
[2020]
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The Expo 2020 Innovation Impact Grant enables AKYAS to continue with our innovation effort in creating solutions to address the sanitation crisis regionally in MENA and globally.
Grateful to be among global innovators who are on meaningful and impactful journeys.
Learn more here.
[2019]
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