The exhibits below represent work supported or co-led by Hashtag Percapita’s team members as part of institutional collaborations. The documents remain the property of the respective organizations and are shown here for reference to experience and thematic focus only.
Supporting in City Sanitation Plan development for 6 cities across Telangana & Andhra Pradesh - (Funded by GIZ).
- Client/Funder: GIZ, India
- Key Personnel: Debisha Sharma & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for Sanitation Investment Planning in:
- Telengana
- Khammam
- Karimnagar
- Sircilla
- Andhra Pradesh
- Nandyal
- Narsaraopet
- Amalapuram
- Telengana
Preparation of City Sanitation Plans for four Cities of Odisha - (Funded by National Institute of Urban Affairs)
- Client/Funder: National Institute of Urban Affairs
- Key Personnel: Debisha Sharma, Rishikesh Rath & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for Sanitation Investment Planning in Odisha for the cities of:
- Bhubaneswar,
- Cuttack,
- Puri,
- Baripada
Sanitation Action Plans and Technology Demonstrations for 31 Pourashavas of Bangladesh
- Client/Funder: Asian Development Bank
- Key Personnel: Balachandran Balakrishnan & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: BORDA & CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for Sanitation Investment Planning, Business Model Development and developing technology solutions across 31 Pourashavas of Bangladesh.
Wastewater Management Plan for Selected Clusters of Ambajogai, Maharashtra - (Funded by CWAS Team, CEPT University)
- Client/Funder: C-WAS (Center for Water & Sanitation), CEPT University
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar, Rajesh Shenoy & Shivaram K.N.V.
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for evaluating Wastewater Management Solutions (including cost comparison of centralized and decentralized solutions) in the town of Ambajogai in Maharashtra that included:
- A master plan showing tentative sewer alignment,
- Proposal for treatment concept and locating treatment modules
- Catalogue of proposed treatment modules along with an assessment against criteria for selection of proposed options
- Tentative costing for treatment systems
Technical Assistance to Rajesh Pai (World Bank technical advisory) for conceiving a Greywater Mgmt strategy for the state of Tamil Nadu
- Client/Funder: Asian Development Bank
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: BORDA & CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for Sanitation Investment Planning, Business Model Development and developing technology solutions across 31 Pourashavas of Bangladesh.
Technical Assistance to Infosys to conceive a Multi-criteria engineering decision analysis for Greywater & Blackwater Treatment at Infosys Noida Campus, India
- Client/Funder: Infosys
- Key Personnel: Ravi Kumar
- Implementing Partner: Institute of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management, Leibniz University
- Services Rendered: Development of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Greywater & Blackwater Treatment at Infosys Noida Campus, India
Linking sanitation & climate change: Evaluating GHG emissions and vulnerability: the case of Valsad, 2014
- Client/Funder: ICCO
- Key Personnel: Shivaram K.N.V. & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support to evaluate GHG Emissions and Vulnerability of Sanitation Infrastructure Interventions in the city of Valsad to link impacts to climate change
Planning & Design of Nature Based Treatment System for a Residential Township at Santa Maria, Columbia
- Client/Funder: Ambire Global
- Key Personnel: Ravi Kumar
- Implementing Partner: Individual Assignment
- Services Rendered: Technical Support for conceptualizing ‘Treatment Concept, Engineering Design and Infrastructure Development’ support at Santa Maria, Columbia
Technical Assistance to BORDA, Afghanistan (via CDD Society) for Sanitation Planning of Qalai Sultan Settlement in Kabul
- Client/Funder: BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Germany)
- Key Personnel: Debisha Sharma & Avinash Kumar Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support to assess the existing sanitation conditions in Qalai Sultan Jan and preparing a comprehensive sanitation improvement plan with context-specific recommendations
City Sanitation Plans for 6 cities in Afghanistan (cities of Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and Kunduz)
- Client/Funder: BORDA, AECOM (in association with USAID)
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar & Ajith Edathoot
- Implementing Partner: Individual Assignment with BORDA & AECOM
- Services Rendered: Worked on the sanitation planning component of the Afghanistan Urban Water & Sanitation (AUWS) Program, a $ 48 million grant funded by USAID. Served as the Sr. Urban Planner of the team consortium led by AECOM and supported (on the sanitation component) by BORDA. Our project scope was to develop Sanitation Plans for the cities of Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad, Mazar e Sharif, Kandahar and Kunduz.
Technical Assistance to BORDA, Afghanistan (via CDD Society) for Sanitation Planning of Qalai Sultan Settlement in Kabul
- Client/Funder: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Key Personnel: Shivaram K.N.V. & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Assistance to ADB (via CDD Society) for Sanitation Planning for Coastal Towns in Bangladesh under ADB-PPTA, contributing to infrastructure improvement project preparation with backing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
FSM Planning and Engineering Design for FSTP in Kabul
- Client/Funder: GIZ, Afghanistan
- Key Personnel: Ravi Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: The project involved conducting a feasibility study and developing a treatment concept for faecal sludge management in Kabul under the Water Sector Improvement Program commissioned by GIZ.
Sanitation Action Plan for the Town of Pichampur to plan for Faecal Sludge and Septage Management: Baseline & Endline Assessment (Two Assignments)
- Client/Funder: WaterAID (in association with UNICEF)
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar & Ravi Kumar
- Implementing Partner: Two Individual Assignments across ‘two years’ with WaterAID
- Services Rendered: The project involved developing a Sanitation Action Plan for Pichampur focused on planning faecal sludge and septage management systems.
Linking sanitation & climate change: Evaluating GHG emissions and vulnerability: the case of Valsad, 2014
- Client/Funder: ICCO/li>
- Key Personnel: Shivaram K.N.V. & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical Support to evaluate GHG Emissions and Vulnerability of Sanitation Infrastructure Interventions in the city of Valsad to link impacts to climate change
Development of Course Handbooks for Madurai Kamaraj University (under the provisions of a USAID program) for two academic courses rolled out by the WASH-Institute (published in 2021):
- Client/Funder: Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Institute, Delhi
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: WASH-I, Delhi (in association with USAID & Madurai Kamaraj University)
- Services Rendered: Developed and edited a student handbook - for the team at WASH Institute (under the provisions of a USAID program) - alongside curating content for following two academic courses that are planned to be rolled out by the Institute:
- One-Year PG Diploma in Water and Wastewater Management
- One-Year PG Diploma in Non-Sewered Sanitation
An Assessment of the Water & Sanitation Sector: An expert paper on approaches to achieving Sustainable Development Goal-6
- Client/Funder: Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Germany
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar & Ajith Edathoot
- Implementing Partner: BORDA
- Services Rendered: Technical support to BORDA team in Bremen, Germany to develop an Expert Paper alongside BORDA team to guide a not for profit client on the future of the 'Water & Sanitation Sector'.
Scoping & Feasibility Assessment for FSM Scoping Interventions in Chittoor District
- Client/Funder: WaterAID
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: Vivir Consultancy
- Services Rendered: Conceived a first of its kind technical assistance to WaterAID to undertake a scoping assessment for implementing an FSM plan in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh across Palamner and Gangavaram Mandals.
Solid Waste Management Study on Devanahalli
- Client/Funder: CDD Society
- Key Personnel: Rishikesh Rath, Debisha Sharma & Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Technical support to Devanahalli Municipality to undertake a comprehensive baseline assessment of waste generation practices, including an assessment of the collection and treatment methods to conceptualize a Detailed Project Report with technology solutions for Devanahalli to improve their SWM practices.
Inclusive Heritage based City Development Program in India
- Client/Funder: World Bank
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CEPT Research & Development Foundation
- Services Rendered: Technical Assistance: Technical Support to Prof. Saswat Bandyopadhyay and the technical team of World Bank (under Ms. Stefania Abakerli) to map heritage assets and socio-economic profiling and capture results and lessons learned over the course of the program implementation.
Assessment of Resource Recovery and its Business Potential at Sewage Treatment Plants in Pune
- Client/Funder: Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Germany (in association with Toilet Board Coalition)
- Key Personnel: Susmita Sinha, Avinash Kumar & Kanakesh K.Devangan
- Implementing Partner: BORDA
- Services Rendered: This study undertook a detailed assessment of the sewage treatment facilities in Pune selected for assessment of resource recovery and reuse. An assessment of the enabling environment associated with getting the end products from these STPs to the market was done in this study based on the business potential of these products.
Body of Knowledge – City Sanitation Planning
- Client/Funder: Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA), Germany
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: CDD Society
- Services Rendered: Provided technical inputs regarding the approaches and methods to undertake sanitation planning in diverse settings. The lessons captured within this report capture field experiences garnered in developing City Sanitation Plans (CSPs) across India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh through experiences garnered in from the sanitation planning practice led through the course of projects implemented by CDD Society.
Resource Book on Solid & Liquid Waste Management Solutions for cleaning the River Ganga
- Client/Funder:GIWA (Global Interfaith WASH Alliance)
- Key Personnel: Avinash Kumar
- Implementing Partner: GIWA
- Services Rendered: Technical support to develop a catalogue of solutions and case studies to guide sanitation interventions in the towns falling within the drainage basin of the Ganges
Book Chapter in the Book titled ‘Sustainable Urbanization in India’
- Client/Funder: IIT Bombay and Institute of Development Studies
- Authors: Avinash Kumar & Sajith Shaik
- Study Summary: This study reviews municipal solid waste management in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai to identify performance gaps and best practices across the service cycle.
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