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Organization: Excloosive Limited
Field of Work - Sanitation
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2004
Project URL: http://www.excloosive.net
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - EXCOOSIVE is the pioneer in provision of mobile and portable sanitation stations, including toilets and hand wash units to both rural and urban residents in East Africa to improve hygiene at personal and community levels through hygienic disposal of
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - EXCLOOSIVE has revolutionalised the management of personal hygiene in improving public health, maintaining human dignity and preserving the environment through the use of mobile and portable sanitation facilities. The company has managed this business for the last four years and from experience the demand for its products and services has been on the rise.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - EXCLOOOSIVE products and services are delivered to its customers as per the orders and requests. The use its products and services ranges from one day to several days depending on the nature of the event or activity. The management meets to review orders and assign duties to the operations team who liaise with the clients for logistical arrangement. Once the sanitation units are delivered to clients, attendants make sure supplies and cleanliness are maintained at all time. EXCLOOSIVE uses specialized tanks made of 5 mm. thick steel that have been designed to make vacuum and toilet maintenance operation easy and convenient. The combination of a waste tank with a fresh water compartment underneath the waste tank is linked to a pump with 150 bar water pressure, which enables the operator to pump toilets and fresh wash after. Manual washing, i.e. with no water pressure is also available. Both systems feature a transparent polyethylene fresh water tank constructed to allow quick level checking. The tankers are specially manufactured and thoroughly tested. They are treated to resist rust corrosion and then lacquered in white colour. The vacuum tank is mounted on a pickup truck and can move from one point to another point servicing units depending on the need
How do you plan to expand your innovation? - The management will set up an entrepreneurship project, in which business people based will take up management functions of the units, on either lease or outright purchase arrangements. Excloosive will identify a national NGO to partner with in delivering the sanitation solutions to the people. The NGO will handle the aspects of community mobilization and training on good sanitation practices and entrepreneurship.This approach will reduce the role of management to research on new and innovative products and services, training and maintaining standards, while the day-to-day running of the toilet units will be done by the entrepreneurs. This strategy will involve development and marketing of proposals to UNHABITAT, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) - Global Sanitation Fund, World Sanitation Fund Forum, Foundations, Corporate Organizations and Donors and other development partners supporting sanitation programmes. The other expansion strategy will focus on the regional market. Initially, the company will venture into Ugandan and Tanzanian capital cities and later on to Rwanda and Burundi. Through this strategy, EXCLOOSIVE proposes to roll out its full range of products and services in Uganda and Tanzania before the end of 2008. For each country, the company will procure two (2) ETU Deluxe Units, two (2) ETU Standard Units and ten (10) ETU Topsan Units. Registration procedures for EXCLOOSIVE Uganda Limited have been completed while those for EXCLOOSIVE Tanzania Limited are in progress.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - What type of partnerships to do need? Through the public private partnerships with local authorities which are expected to rise from the current two (2) (Nairobi and Mombasa Cities) by end of 2007 to cover the remaining six (6) provincial towns and majority of the district headquarters by end of 2011. In Mombasa City, EXCLOOSIVE and the Council have signed a five (5) year contract for rehabilitation and management of public toilets. The proceeds from this initiative are shared between EXCLOOSIVE and the Council on an 80:20 basis; 80% for EXCLOOSIVE and 20% for the council. The experience from this public private sectors partnership in delivery of sanitation services will be replicated to other deserving cities and towns in the region. The company will organize exhibitions in all the provincial towns to showcase its products and services to the general public. The partnerships are created through negotiations with officials of the local councils with the support of the parent ministry.
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - The efforts of EXCLOOSIVE Limited have led to a cleaner environment in Kenya thereby contributing to a reduction in disease incidences among the infants and
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - To date the company has provided its products and services to 149 clients with participants running into hundreds of thousands. The company plans to grow that client base by 300% by end of 2011.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - The beneficiaries are the children and especially the under fives who suffer from diseases and infections brought about by poor sanitation conditions in their environment. The general public that suffer humiliation for and especially women and girls due to lack of privacy where there are no proper sanitation facilities.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - The company has already made a niche in the industry. The main activities will be sustained through investing some of the profits into expansion programmes. At the community level, individual entrepreneurs will be encouraged to lease or buy sanitation units that they will run as business entities complete with business plans. This way, the sanitation stations will easily be spread/rolled out to the very needy who reside in urban slum and rural market places.
Provide information on your finances and organization: - Current Annual budget (2007 fiscal year)?
Annual budget for the past 1-2 years (2006 and 2005)? Annual revenue generated? What are your current sources and/or streams of revenue? Do you currently have sources of earned income (examples?); If not, why? Current Annual budget (2007 fiscal year) KS. 12,963,000 ($185,186) @ KS. 70 per $ Year Annual Budget KS Annual Revenue All revenue is from the products and services provided to the clients. There are three (3) main products and services that EXCLOOSIVE Limited is providing to the target market. These are: The Executive Trailer Unit, the Porto Loo and the Hand Wash Unit. What is the potential demand for your innovation? - How do you estimate this demand?
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers): Very high given that outdoor events are in the increase ranging from sports to garden wedding ceremonies. Urban slums have limited or no space for construction of public toilets. Public functions are normally held in places where sanitation facilities are limited or completely lacking. Therefore demand will indeed continue to rise now and in future. What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - Political instability could lead to loss of income and slowing down the planned expansion.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - EXCLOOSIVE was started in 2004 as a subsidiary of Level One. Level one is a company that deals with production of films and commercial documentaries. During the course of their work, crew members while out there in the jungles or highways shooting films, found themselves in dire need for toilet facilities. That is how the idea of acquiring portable and mobile toilets was born at Level One.
However, other people in the industry got to know of the facilities, and soon the demand for mobile sanitation stations started rising by the day. By 2005, EXCLOOSIVE was registered as limited company with the vision of providing safe, clean and comfortable portable and mobile sanitation facilities, initially for private events and later on for large public events. The company celebrates its fourth year of service in April this year while appreciating an attractive fleet of twelve (12) double-sided Mobile Trailer Units, sixty (60) Single Portable Units and six (6) Hand Wash Stations. The company has also acquired a Truck, a Vacuum Exhauster and three (3) Pick Ups to increase efficiency and effectiveness at operational level. This rapid accumulation of assets, coupled with impressive sales turnover in the last four years, is a clear indication of service satisfaction from the company clientele, many of whom are return-clients. Within this time, the company has expanded its operations through servicing existing clients and acquiring new ones as a result of its good reputation. The company has cut a niche for itself in the industry through the provision of sanitation products and services to government departments, Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - Moses Nderitu, Managing Director
Has the overall responsibility of coordinating all departments steering the company to prosperity guided by its vision and mission. Moses is a television production expert with over 12 years experience in all aspects of production and with field experience across all the countries in the greater Eastern African Region. He is the founder of both Level one productions and EXCLOOSIVE Ltd. Over the years, Moses has developed a sharp sense of emergent business opportunities in niche sectors. In the past, he has had interest in ICT businesses, real estate among others. Moses is a practicing Rotarian, and is a mentor for the Kenya Youth Business Trust. He enjoys golf, traveling Contact Information:
diana sang
Administration Manager Excloosive Limited (sanitations firm) Discussions about this entry
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wow! looks pretey good, sounds good too