Sanima has been awarded the prestigious Kunan Grand Prize 2024, the highest recognition for social and environmental entrepreneurship in Peru. This achievement underscores the positive impact of the Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) service, an innovative and safe sanitation alternative, benefiting over 1,600 households in urban human settlements still lacking public water and sewerage network. The service ... Read more
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Over the last 20 years, cities in Peru have grown by 50% above the Latin American average. This growth has been 93% informal (social housing supply represents only 1% of the total) and has been characterized by the settlement of people in peripheral areas without urban planning: without property titles, basic services, or infrastructure (Espinoza ... Read more
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To discuss the critical situation of water and sanitation provision and to present innovative alternative solutions, the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) organized the multisectoral panel “The Water and Sanitation Crisis in Human Settlements of Lima, Peru” on April 25. The panel included Max Carbajal, General Director of ... Read more
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In a joint initiative reflecting the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru’s (PUCP) commitment to equity in access to basic services and sustainable development, the Specific Collaboration Agreement between the Faculty of Science and Engineering at PUCP and Sanima was formalized on April 18, 2024. This agreement focuses on generating innovations to strengthen and enhance the ... Read more
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As an expert organization in sanitation, Sanima was invited to a workshop to discuss and provide feedback on the contents of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) “Human Settlements in Lima: Corruption, Integrity, and Access to Water and Sanitation” organized by the Water Integrity Network (WIN) and Urbes-Lab. This MOOC offers a valuable opportunity to ... Read more
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As part of the final phase of the “Scaling Off-Grid Sanitation Solutions” project, Sanima conducted an exchange visit with the organizations SOIL and Fresh Life, which are also members of the Container Based Sanitation Alliance (CBSA) and implement Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) in Haiti and Kenya, respectively. The meeting, held in Nairobi, Kenya, included the participation ... Read more
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Sanima renewed its commitment with Separett, its main partner to address the sanitation provision challenge in Lima, Peru. In June of this year, Sanima conducted a visit to the Separett production plant located in Värnamo, Sweden. The purpose of this visit was to provide Separett with updated information on the sanitation provision situation in Lima, ... Read more
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Sanima’s experience providing Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) service was shared in PUCP’s “Safe and Sustainable Housing and Sanitation” session. Sanima was invited to share its expertise in the area of sustainable sanitation alongside key leaders and agency representatives in “Management Dialogues for a Sustainable Peru,” an event on August 24, 2023, organized by the Pontifical Catholic ... Read more
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This event aimed to engage diverse organizations in tackling the pressing challenges of water and sanitation provision in Peru. Held on September 7 and 8, the forum facilitated presentations, analyses, and discussions on the global and national landscapes of water and sanitation services. It also addressed the progress, hurdles, and strategies concerning the achievement of ... Read more
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Sanima was invited to attend as one of the Container-Based Sanitation Alliance (CSBA) representatives at this global gathering. The current global landscape poses significant challenges in narrowing the gap in sanitation service provision. The consequences of climate change, coupled with growing water insecurity and population growth, make it urgent to explore new solution alternatives to ... Read more
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The research findings of “Scaling Off-Grid Solutions for Sanitation” will be presented to residents of Pamplona Alta, Lima, Peru. As a leading expert in the field, Sanima has been supporting the research initiative “Scaling Off-Grid Solutions for Sanitation” which aims to understand the challenges, demands, and issues related to water and sanitation access in Peru, ... Read more
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We had the opportunity to collaborate with the El Comercio group in an initiative to install 15 dry toilets with our service in common pots in San Juan de Miraflores, thus guaranteeing health and well-being to the community
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Our founder, Isabel Medem and CEO, Arturo Llaxacondor share their thoughts on sustainability and how at midst of the pandemic, where the challenges of different realities in Peru are accentuated, it is even clearer how urgent it is to prioritize all kinds of initiatives that contribute to sustainability as a multifaceted concept of our society.
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In 2020 we were part of a research with five other organizations to compare the economic efficiency of our model compared to other sanitation alternatives
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We had the chance to give a famous Ted Talk, about how our CBS (container-based sanitation) solution works as attendees of the 2016 Ted xTukuy event
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LIMA – After overcoming the obstacles of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic,the ninth anniversary of our operations has arrived. Nine years have gone by since we first installed 10 dry, off-grid toilets in homes in southern Lima as part of an initial pilot under the name of x-runner. Over the years, x-runner has grown ... Read more
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2012: Founded by Isabel and Jessica, Sanima (formerly x-runner) started as a small project with 10 families from the Intihuatana human settlement, in Villa El Salvador, Lima. 2013: Our first big allies were Grand Challenges Canada, NeSst and Swiss Re Foundation. With their support we went from a project to a social venture with daily ... Read more
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