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The One-Stop Shop

The place to go to get done what you need.
This would be a public toilette central to the busier areas in town. In between each of the sexes' areas would be a set of mini-recycling centers to gather objects/items that can be reused or recycled into more sustainable items. In the center of these would be a small 'general store' that carries economical, post-consumer recycled products as-well-as items of sanitation most in need for that area to increase availability for cleanliness and not just awareness.


These would be manned, thereby creating jobs as well and bringing some form of additional employment where the workers get to execute a retail and service oriented position. The human waste can be dealt with in such a manner as large-scale composting or collected for the creation of 'energy-pellets' and sold as well to be a help in agriculture.

Who could implement this?

  1. Local entrepreneur
  2. Multinational company
  3. Large NGO
  4. Government

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very high potential
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Sabra Marcroft

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January 16, 2011, 08:04PM
Attended multi-use centers such as this would help in providing a vital sense of safety for the people using them. Designing the "one stop shops" to be safer for small children, perhaps with some sort of childcare/supervision available for children whose parents are transacting recycling business or using the facilities, would make them more accessible to families. This could also be a good opportunity for family sanitation education.
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Johan Löfström

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January 06, 2011, 12:36PM
I wrote this in my evaluation:

Letting local construction company design and build it.

Making a local competition for a name of this concept.

Making a public tender announcement to let many small local business owners/contractors send in yearly offer for the right to lease it and pay rent.

And also making a monthly or yearly fee for international producers of cleaning products for the right to be on a shelf inside the shop. So that local competitors could be given equal size of shelf space cheaper or for free.
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Danny Alexander

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December 23, 2010, 09:42PM
Great idea, Brady! Building on the idea of a one-stop shop, we saw a need for consolidation in the sanitation construction process in Kumasi, and it'd be great to have a "One-Stop Shop" for home sanitation as well. For example, rather than going to a 5 different vendors and contractors for 5 different parts of the product/service (each of whom marks up their products), it'd be great to have one place that sold it all (tanks, seats, pipes, bricks, etc.).
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Svava Maria Atladottir

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December 23, 2010, 09:40PM
This would be especially nice especially as the supply chain is so disconnected for sanitation products in Ghana. Combining all the necessary purchases to one place and even linking them to the service would certainly make things easier for the consumer.
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Jocelyn Wyatt

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December 23, 2010, 04:14PM
This reminds me of Eco Toilet's model in Nairobi which has been quite effective. This seems to work especially well in public markets or other public areas.
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