The South African Sanitation Technology Enterprise Programme (SASTEP) is a national system of #innovation platform that seeks fast-track the adoption of innovative and emerging #sanitation technologies in South Africa through fostering local manufacturing and commercialization. The programme was created by the Water Research Commission (WRC) in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and the Bill and Melinda Foundation (BMGF) and with the support of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).
The programme is an operation vehicle of the WRC’s transformational vision SANiTi: Sanitation Transformation Initiative.
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