Unesco-IHE has twenty PhD positions available on pro-poor sanitation innovations

Twenty PhD Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations, named Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.

Unesco-IHE and 8
UNESCO-IHE, in Delft, the Netherlands, and the following partners: Makerere University in Uganda, KNUST in Ghana, AIT in Thailand, 2iE in Burkina Faso, ITB in Indonesia, UCT in South Africa, UFMG in Brasil, and Univalle in Colombia were awarded a 8 million USD grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Local innovation on sanitation
The grant will be used to finance a 5-year capacity building and research project to stimulate local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.

To support the research component of the project 20 PhD positions for junior researchers are funded by the project at 8 host institutions.

Deadline for application: 15 December 2011.

More information
Unesco-IHE, professor Damir Brdjanovic, PhD
Delft, the Netherlands
d.brdjanovic@unesco-ihe.org
www.unesco-ihe.org