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SaniTap was incorporated in 2020 by Dutch and British entrepreneurs, after 30 years of collaborations. The organisation implements scalable initiatives that address climate change induced challenges to low-income populations in Africa.
SaniTap delivers consultancy and projects which focus primarily on
Safe Drinking Water (SDW) as well as
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) solutions
SaniTap was founded as an ‘Impact Business’. The founders believe in the power of applying business based approaches – innovation, R&D, commercialisation, efficient supply chains and economic efficiency to address global issues which are normally left to charities, NGOs and governmental bodies.
The founders build Impact Businesses that help lift people out of poverty, protect the environment and improve health.
The Founders of SaniTap are both innovative and award-winning social entrepreneurs. They seek to develop scalable solutions to the challenges caused by climate change in vulnerable communities. Between them they have over 60 years of experience, working with like-minded organisations and building novel business models to ensure sustainability.
We do what we do because we want to affect change. We want to see lives improved; the environment protected; health enhanced; and livelihoods created. And we want to see impact at scale.
Technology needs to be durable and proven to work under tough conditions.
Where we can, we leap-frog outdated solutions and introduce novel technologies.
We seek lasting impact through development of sustainable business models and community engagement
Our governance, operations, leadership and collaborations are to high ethical standards and values. We don’t tolerate anything less. We are open to scrutiny.
Adapting to climate change means taking action to prepare for and adjust to actual, or expected, future climate. We build this into our work and thinking. We develop best practice models
We need act now. Mitigation addresses the root causes of climate change. Our projects and initiatives aim to immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We believe in the equality of all humans.
Innovation in business models and financing is as important as the products and services we develop.
Achieving scale requires collaboration. This includes resources, finance, time, knowledge and information. Increased scale achieves greater impact. Collaboration underpins it all.
We enable communities’ climate resilience: building ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to expected climate change impacts.
We are proud of the quality and integrity of our products and services and also the way we work.
The Founders of SaniTap are both innovative and award-winning social entrepreneurs. They seek to develop scaleable solutions to the challenges caused by climate change on vulnerable communities. Between them they have over 60 years of experience, working with like-minded organisations and building novel business models to ensure sustainability.
FOUNDER
Andrew is a UK national, and a proven business leader, management consultant and award winning social entrepreneur. Andrew has launched a number of social enterprises throughout his career and primarily focuses on enterprises that help lift people out of poverty and protect the environment in Africa. Andrew is responsible for leading the UK based team of Business Builders and helping SaniTap provide high impact businesses addressing climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience internationally in order to maximize impact through lives saved.
FOUNDER
A Dutch national based in Kenya, Adriaan is co-founder of several award-winning social enterprises including BushProof, renowned for it’s innovative WASH technologies. He has delivered the benefits of improved drinking water and sanitation to over 1.4 million people. Prior to becoming a social entrepreneur, Adriaan worked for 10 years as an aid professional in top management positions – often running large WASH programs – and is skilled in managing EU and USAID-funded international aid programs.
SaniTap is an Impact Venture. To us, this means that we exclusively engage in business activities that deliver tangible social and/or environmental impact – yet also deliver healthy financial returns. The latter is important, not to maximise shareholder revenue, but because only profitable ventures are scaleable or replicable – and that’s what will further multiply our impact. In this way, ‘value’ is maximised – across all stakeholders.
Other descriptions are helpful – such as ‘Triple-Bottom-Line business’ (Social, Environmental and Financial measures of success) and ‘Triple-P business’ (Profit, People, Planet) and they all convey similar ideas and the intended trajectory of an enterprise.
We prefer using the term Impact Venture or Impact Business. We use commercial, business approaches, our objectives and values mark us out as far more than just a business: it’s the impact that drives us.
From this follows that we carefully measure and report on the social and environmental performance of our activities – to ensure transparency and accountability, but also to provide the data and insights to continually improve the way we operate.
As an Impact Venture we work with investors and philanthropists alike and look to deploy a wide range of financing models. Depending on the application, this could include results-based-financing, refundable grants, TA, equity or commercial loans (i.e. experimental innovation is best financed by grants; but scaling up validated profitable business models by commercial funding).
