Applications Invited for Toilet Board Coalition’s Accelerator Program

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About the Organization:

Established in 2015, The Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) is a business-led membership organisation driving private sector engagement in SDG6.2. We facilitate large-small company partnerships, public-private collaboration and run a business accelerator for SGBs (small & growing businesses) to contribute to universal access to sustainable sanitation products & services. Over half the world currently does not have access to safe sanitation, meaning they have a dirty unsafe toilet or no toilet at all, their waste is left exposed and untreated, and disease can run rampant.

Toilet Board Coalition’s Accelerator Program

Since 2016 the Toilet Board Coalition’s accelerator program has been supporting entrepreneurs with bespoke mentorship, partnership and the visibility to scale their sanitation economy businesses.

More than toilets alone, we look for commercially viable businesses across the sanitation economies – including innovative sanitary-ware infrastructure, products & service providers; toilet resource collection, treatment and transformation, and digital applications for sanitation and preventative healthcare.

Benefits:

• 12 months in-kind business support - Hands-on mentoring tailored to your needs and the challenges facing your business
• Access to capital - upon graduation from the Accelerator (capital from TBC members and TBC investor network based on investment readiness)
• Partnership brokering & brand building - through affiliation with TBC member corporate, NGO and institutional brands
• Membership to the Toilet Board Coalition - ongoing engagement and investment opportunities with the Coalition following graduation
• Access to global and local mentors - business experts from leading multinational companies - sales, marketing, supply-chain, financial planning, etc and technical experts from leading companies and stakeholders - research & development, engineering, IT, mobile, etc
• A business intelligence toolkit - consumer insights study; social & environmental audit; and financial analysis

Who It Is For:

The accelerator is seeking to work with businesses that meet the following criteria:

• Emerging & Frontier Markets - Target market includes populations most at risk in Asia, Africa & Latin America.
• Scalable - The business is positioned to deliver sanitation at scale and is connected to the full value chain of sanitation service delivery
• Innovative/ Replicable - Product offering that is aspirational for its target market and provides an improved solution to the market and/or product offering that is proven and replicable
• Market Based ​ - Commercially viable businesses, at every point in the sanitation value chain, delivering sanitation to those without access, profitably

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