Activities Field partner Type Commercial Website http://www.ecotact.org/

Location Menelik Road, Off Ngong Road P.O.Box 24045 00100 GPO Nairobi Nairobi Kenya

Contact Email office@ecotact.org Phone +254 20 2459130 Mobile +254 772751581

Driven by the local need to improve urban environment through investment in environmentally responsive projects, Ecotact is a Social Enterprise incorporated in Kenya in 2006 with the sole objective of developing innovative social investments in environmental sanitation and management in Africa and beyond. Ecotact Limited is founded by David Kuria a Kenyan Ashoka Fellow who is also the CEO and the winner of The Schwab Foundation’s Africa Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award for 2009: the first person to get such an award in sub-Saharan Africa and a 2008 winner of Global Water Challenge.

The enterprise is developing different flagship social initiatives that include the innovative IKOtoilet - thinking beyond a toilet, an idea that has been awarded the Ashoka Fellow on Public Innovation for 2007; IKOvillage for social housing models that optimizes ecological sanitation to its full potential, the municipal waste management initiative that explore investing in women waste pickers into viable and vibrant economic ventures through social incubation framework and documenting the Best Practices for Environmental Conservation for the Nairobi River Basin Programme on behalf of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Mission:
Ecotact strives to develop innovative answers to the growing environmental sanitation cry in Africa and globally.

Vision:
Ecotact envisions a world where everyone count: a world that offers social equity, with appropriate responses to growing environmental and social challenges, and where each individual can make a difference.

GWC's Changemakers: EcoTact