Private and Social Toilets (PRISTO)

The overall objectives of the partnership are:

• Reduce transmission of disease caused by human contact with faecal material by increasing the percentage of the population in the targeted Assemblies that have access to a private digester-based toilets.
• Establish a cashless payment system that uses cell phone payments of small amounts once or twice each month.
• Install 1,600 Biofil Toilet Systems in low income areas selling in bulk orders of 100 for GHC 2000 improving the lives of 16,000 citizens in two municipalities.
• Install 400 toilets in public schools at no cost to municipalities to provide children with safe and hygienic toilets and hand-washing facilities improving health of 16,000 school children.
• Educate residents and school communities about the importance of hand-washing to disease prevention and the proper use and maintenance of Biofil Toilet Systems.
• Make investments in improving the Biofilcom manufacturing process to increase production capacity of Biofil Toilet Systems from 1,000 per year to 5,000 per year to increase the safety of labour conditions to improve the quality of the product and further standardisation of the product.
• Develop marketing strategies for Biofil Toilet Systems based on an internal assessment of PRISTOs effectiveness in promoting Biofil Toilet Systems in urban areas.