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- Dharma LifeDharma Life is building a network of female change leaders who drive behaviour change and provide access to socially impactful products to rural households.Raise Living StandardsMayaMaya provides a mobile-based digital wellbeing assistant that eliminates barriers – particularly for women – to accessing health advice from experts.Digital HealthBhumijoBhumijo provides access to clean, inclusive and technology-enabled toilets – in markets and other public spaces – through a subscription or pay-per-use model.TRANSFORM Survive & ThriveFolia WaterFolia Water’s nanosilver-infused Folia filter paper is the world’s first water filter for pennies, not dollars.TRANSFORM Survive & ThriveKashaDesigned by women, for women, this confidential and convenient digital and last mile distribution platform sells health and household goods.Digital HealthSpring HealthSpring Health provides affordable, safe drinking water to underserved households, using innovative purifying methods, distributed via its rural network.TRANSFORM Survive & ThriveSaraplastSaraplast provides safe and hygienic public toilets to women and girls by converting old buses into beautiful, static public toilets.TRANSFORM Survive & ThriveDrinkwellDrinkwell provides affordable, safe drinking water to people living without piped water, using water ATM machines and pay-as-you-go, prepayment cards.TRANSFORM Survive & ThriveShobar Jonno Pani (SJP)Almost 20 percent of Bangladeshis do not have access to a source of clean, safe drinking water and 44 percent do not have access to a functioning sanitation system. This results in poor health conditions and environmental degradation, with water contaminated by waste. Shobar Jonno Pani (SJP), or Water for All, was created in 2010 by French NGO, Eau et Vie. It works to ensure permanent access to reliable, treated water services in deprived urban neighbourhoods, by providing piped water directly to homes at an affordable price. SJP has an agreement with communities and local authorities to build and distribute their water networks, as well as build a billing and payment network. It also provides behaviour change and community support, such as awareness about the importance of drinking clean water and builds fire hydrants into the water network, training a squad of female firefighters from the local community to use them. TRANSFORM funded the testing of a new service selling biofil toilets, using earthworms to treat waste, similar to a garden composter. The project helped SJP to scale the business in Dhaka and put in place a customer-facing value proposition, a brand logo and materials to publicise the business. A video was also created. Through TRANSFORM, the Unilever team also shared behaviour change experience to help SJP develop campaigns on menstrual health management and handwashing, adapting Lifebuoy materials for a low-income context for the first time. This included interactive elements via posters, puzzles and story books, immediately increasing understanding among school children and women. During the pandemic, training for staff to use personal protective equipment and maintain services safely was also included.Water, Sanitation and HygieneMESHMESH is the first online community for young entrepreneurs in the informal economy, helping them to boost skills and earnings.Future of WorkAerosanAerosan supplies innovative public toilets and handwashing facilities – harvesting rainwater to flush toilets and turning waste into biogas fuel.Water, Sanitation and HygieneHappyTapHappyTap advocates for a new normal in hand hygiene – putting handwashing within reach in low-income settings.Water, Sanitation and HygieneLoowattLoowatt has created a waterless flush toilet system for low-income communities without access to sewers.Water, Sanitation and HygieneMalindi Water and Sewerage Company (MAWASCO)MAWASCO offers a service to empty pit latrines in low-income communities.Water, Sanitation and HygienePit ViduraPit Vidura offers safe and affordable pit latrine emptying services, employing previously marginalised waste workers.Water, Sanitation and HygieneFresh Life by The Sanergy CollaborativeFresh Life – founding partner of The Sanergy Collaborative – builds cost-effective and eco-friendly sanitation products and services delivered in cities.Water, Sanitation and HygieneSouthern Water and Sanitation Company (SWSC)Southern Water and Sanitation Company (SWSC) is a public water and sanitation utility company, providing clean drinking water and sanitation services.Water, Sanitation and HygieneSunlight Water Centers by TechnoServeSunlight Water Centers combine a borehole and retail kiosk to create a sustainable business model to build and maintain boreholes.Water, Sanitation and HygieneSWEEP by WSUPSWEEP was created by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) to give low-income households access to affordable septic tank emptying services.Water, Sanitation and HygieneSanivationSanivation operates waste-to-resource treatment plants which combine human waste with agricultural waste to produce solid fuels to heat factories.Water, Sanitation and HygieneWaste4ChangeWaste4Change collects and recycles waste responsibly from companies and households.Waste-Free WorldIMAGINEIFIMAGINEIF npc is a purpose-developed sustainability innovation not-for-profit company turning unrecyclable plastic material into pavers and other building blocks used for landscaping.Waste-Free WorldSesa Recycling by GRIPESesa Recycling is collecting and recycling plastics to create new products.Waste-Free WorldHasiru Dala InnovationsHasiru Dala Innovations (HDI) is a for-purpose, Indian company providing waste-picker-powered circular economy solutions in keeping with its ethos of Inclusive Circularity™.Waste-Free WorldMr Green AfricaMr Green Africa creates sustainable social, environmental and economic impact through the collection, conversion and sale of post-consumer plastic waste.Waste-Free WorldRefill Bangladesh by BopincThe Refill Bangladesh project is designing and piloting a scalable refill distribution model to tackle plastic pollutionWaste-Free WorldAlnerRefill and Reuse Indonesia is a unique, scalable refill station project in low-income community channels such as convenience stores.Waste-Free WorldSampurn(e)arthSampurn(e)arth provides end-to-end decentralised waste-management solutions with a focus on delivering livelihood opportunities for informal wastepicker communities.Waste-Free WorldTaka Taka Ni MaliTaka Taka Ni Mali is a woman-led enterprise, promoting green jobs and a circular economy through waste management.Waste-Free WorldTaka Taka SolutionsTaka Taka Solutions recycles single-use plastic containers and flexible packaging in partnership with waste pickers and factories in Kenya.Waste-Free WorldWecyclersWecyclers is a rewards-for-recycling platform, incentivising people to exchange recyclable waste – collected via cargo bikes or “wecycles” – for essential goods.Waste-Free WorldTrashConAs a global technology company, TrashCon has developed patented solid waste sorting solutions that diverts over 90 percent of waste from landfills and converts it into value.Waste-Free WorldThe Social Factory by Oxfam South AfricaThe Social Factory is a community enterprise focussed on developing a new model for plastic recycling and social inclusion.Waste-Free WorldBaeruBaeru is a women-led climate action organisation helping to make India’s coastline resilient, through the mitigation and recovery of ocean plastic.Waste-Free WorldWITHOUT by AshayaAshaya makes the world’s first recycled sunglasses from packets of chips, while empowering waste pickers out of poverty.Waste-Free WorldRefillable Circular SolutionsRefillable is a zero single use packaging platform that provides doorstep delivery to customers.Waste-Free WorldSaltech Design LabsTransforming plastic waste into alternative materials for sustainable infrastructure development.Waste-Free WorldRecity NetworkRecity Network is a circular waste management company with the vision to keep plastic in the economy and outside the environment.Waste-Free WorlddoctHERsdoctHERs is a health-tech that reintegrates female healthcare providers into an agile, gender-inclusive workforce and promotes health equity using mobile health and intermediary-assisted telemedicine.Digital HealthJeeonJeeon provided a simple app that connects pharmacies to drugs, products, knowledge and tools to better serve their patients.Digital HealthBliss GroupMalaica provides a midwife-led programme that offers support, guidance and resources to help pregnant women navigate pregnancy with confidence and ease.Digital HealthNaijaCare by Every1MobileNaijaCare is a digital community created by Every1Mobile to improve the service offered by proprietary and patent medicine vendors (PPMVs).Digital Healthreach52reach52 is a healthtech social enterprise with the mission to redesign healthcare to reach 52 percent of the world without access.Digital HealthU Join / U Afya by Every1MobileU Join and U Afya were mobile-enabled platforms to provide shopkeepers with access to e-learning, and customers with product promotions and health information.Digital HealthIntegrated Community and Home Protection (ICHP) Myanmar by KopernikThe ICHP programme aimed to combat the prevalence of malaria and dengue fever in urban and rural Myanmar, using insecticide-treated screens and bed nets.Digital HealthBoostBoost is a B2B commerce platform powering Africa’s convenience economy by providing radically easy technology for suppliers to better serve retailers.Raise Living StandardsDuka+ by 4R DigitalThe Duka+ project removes pain-points for owners of small, informal and traditionally cash based shops known as dukas, creating efficiencies while driving growth.Future of WorkPowered by PeoplePowered by People is a wholesale marketplace, enabling sustainable small-batch makers worldwide by giving them access to global markets.Future of Work