Truth is…

We organize it. The sponsors make it possible.

The innovators come for the capital, the financiers for opportunities and the enablers for solutions. They leave with unexpected connections and  discoveries since 2018 and come back the next time.Innovate4WASH is a get together of Africa’s innovation community for water, sanitation and hygiene.

Without You, We Cannot Do It.

What Your Sponsorship Supports

Your support allows us to organize the Innnovate4WASH marketplace forum and thereby it…

♦  Enables the community of existing innovators, enablers and financiers in East Africa’s WASH sector to come together,

♦  Increases the chance to discover innovative solutions for WASH, available finance, potential clients, or supporters, and get access to the people behind them,

♦  Surfaces opportunities and how to exploit them for business, synergies, and partnerships,

♦  Supporting initiatives dedicated to helping solve in global WASH challenges.

♦  Supports a portfolio of impactful interventions for East Africa’s WASH sector.

♦  Increasing WASH advocacy in Africa.

What is the Innovate4Wash marketplace forum

Innovate4WASH is a three-day marketplace forum gathering Kenyan and international innovators in the water & sanitation sector – the first time in Nairobi 2018, and then in Kisumu 2019, again in Kisumu at the beginning of 2022 and Malindi end of 2022.

Every participant is invited to make a 7 minutes pitch presentation. One thought provoking panel discussion will be organized to help unpack our traction on our achievement on SDG 6. The participants come across the 3 range of East Africa’s innovation community for WASH. We ensure we create ample chances to meet and talk for networking purposes.

Where we need to go deep, we organize special sessions beyond the pitch to co-design ways forward.

♦  We focus on pitches because good commercial solutions for WASH exist. Pitches put them out there. One Innovate4WASH guiding principle is “take action”.

♦  We invite a diversity of people across the sector. Another Innovate4WASH guiding principle is to “be welcoming and inclusive” because different perspectives make innovation beyond mere incremental improvements possible.

♦  Every participant pitches. So, everyone contributes to the shared experience.

♦  A stage and space to meet is great. Yet sometimes not enough. In facilitated smaller special sessions we take it a step further and design together how to move forward. It is part of ‘taking action’.

♦  We also create limited exhibition space for participants to showcase their innovations and encourage partnerships and collaborations.