Across three days of keynotes, panels, and technical sessions, the 2nd International Conference on Non-Sewered Sanitation kept returning to one core reframe: non-sewered sanitation (NSS) is no longer a debate about whether it’s legitimate — it’s now about how to make it affordable and scale it....
What does it take to expand safe sanitation to the most vulnerable communities? Before we can answer that question, we need to understand where people stand today — who has access, who doesn't, and what's getting in the way. For SOIL, this kind of baseline knowledge isn't just academic. It's the....
Providing safe sanitation doesn't end when a toilet container is collected from a household. What happens to the waste afterward matters just as much. For SOIL, the transformation of human waste into nutrient-rich compost is a core part of our model — one that turns a public health challenge into an....
SOIL recently collaborated with a group of statisticians from Statistics Without Borders (SWB) to develop a (drum roll please) data quality monitoring dashboard! The aim of this project? Bring critical program data that had previously been managed across multiple sources into one centralized system....
Last week, members of SOIL’s research team traveled to Boulder, Colorado to share recent findings with water and sanitation practitioners and researchers at the 2026 Colorado WASH Symposium (March 12-13). Miselie Fanor Pierre, SOIL’s Research Project Manager, and Rhodenischelah (Rhode) Limage....
We are beyond excited to welcome Maya Lubeck-Schricker back to the SOIL team—this time as our Director of Research and Innovation. Maya’s journey with SOIL began in 2020, right after she finished up her undergraduate degree in Community Health at Tufts University. While scoping out different post....
A special thanks to our friends at the UC Merced Agroecology Lab led by Dr. Rebecca Ryals and Julie Celestin for conducting this research in partnership with SOIL Haiti and furthering the sectoral knowledge base for ecological sanitation. Context Aerobic composting of human feces has been shown to....
A couple of weeks ago, SOIL’s research team met with our partners at Aquaya to explore what sanitation service demand looks like among Cap-Haitien residents who are: Not EkoLakay clients. Are actively seeking a sanitation solution for their household. Currently have a household toilet (such as a pit....
When the SOIL team received a message a few weeks ago from agronomy student Djimy Jean-Louis, complete with photos of some of the most beautiful eggplants we’d ever seen, we knew we had to learn more about how he grew such impressive crops. SOIL Research Associate Miselie Fanor Pierre reached out to....
“Haiti is a developing country, and faces constant, significant challenges, but you cannot take away the Haitian people’s aspiration for a better future.” - Winnie Felix-Jean SOIL Research Director At SOIL, we view sanitation as part of a larger framework of systems and partnerships that enable more....
