SMART – Centre

Eugenia Kimaro

Head of department and SKAT Project Coordinator 
Simple, Market based, Affordable, and Repairable Technologies – SMART Department in SHIPO is responsible for training local entrepreneurs in WASH sector and also involved in designing and structure on community development projects. An additional responsibility in this department is to scale up the access to water and sanitation by means of building supply chains of innovative, cost-effective and market-based technologies and products.

Leire Diez

SMART CENTER Coordinator and Resource Mobilization Coordinator
Coordinating Njombe Beyond project, whose main objective is to reduce the plastic wasted in Njombe town and to raise awareness in the local community about the problems and opportunities around plastic. We are recycling plastic using simple technology like the one from Precious Plastic. We follow the SMART Centre approach: training local entrepreneurs so that they can start their business at different areas of the value chain.