Twenty PhD Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations, named “Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia”.
UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands, and the following partners: Makerere University in Uganda, KNUST in Ghana, AIT in Thailand, 2iE in Burkina Faso, ITB in Indonesia, UCT in South Africa, UFMG in Brazil, and Univalle in Colombia were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grant will be used to finance a 5-year capacity building and research project to stimulate local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
To support the research component of the project 20 PhD positions for junior researchers are funded by the project at 8 host institutions.
The five research themes are:
- Smart sanitation provision for slums & informal settlements
- Emergency sanitation following natural & anthropological disasters
- Resource‐oriented decentralized sanitation
- Low‐cost wastewater collection & treatment
- Faecal sludge management
Deadline for application: 15 December 2011
For more information and application instructions go to the UNESCO-IHE web site
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