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Introduction:
LCS would like to be part of a network for
promotion of Low Cost Sanitation. SBI in Swaziland and Sweden are natural partners with
LCS, since SBI has been doing all the development work for LCS. Development
Workshop (DW) in Angola have used the SanPlat system since 1991 and will be LCS agents for
the SanPlat system in Angola. More companies are welcome!
SBI Consulting
Company Profile:
SBI Consulting draws on low cost sanitation experiences from over 20 years of some 20 different countries in Africa and Asia .
SBI Consulting (Sweden) and SBI Consulting (Swaziland)
SBI is actually two companies with the same staff and the same functions. The reason why they are two companies is purely administrative. SBI Sweden (SBI Consulting International AB) was formed in 1989 as a normal consultancy firm with two people employed Bjorn and Paula Brandberg. When they moved to Swaziland in 1994, they found that it was nearly to impossible to move the company. The easiest was to start the new company of SBI Consulting and Supplies, Swaziland PTY Ltd. Since both SBIs are employing the same people, doing the same type of job, and since SBI Swaziland never has supplied anything, they are both trading as SBI Consulting.
Key qualifications
The key person in SBI Consulting is Bjorn Brandberg, an architect, building engineer and sanitation management adviser. He has specialised in development, planning and management of low-cost sanitation programmes with focus on programme management, environmental protection, latrine construction, community participation and behavioural change in low-income urban and rural areas for development and emergency programmes.
B Brandberg has 30 years of professional experience. Since 1989 he has been an independent consultant working for and in co-operation with major international organisations and consultancy firms including World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, UNCHS, UNHCR, UNOPS, Sida, DFID, NORAD, Carl Bro International, COWIconsult, KrügerConsult, WELL etc in 20 different countries in Africa and Asia. He has 10 years experience as programme manager in low-cost sanitation programmes, of which 6 as national coordinator of the latrine building programme in Mozambique and 4 years co-ordinating the low-cost sanitation programme in Malawi.
B Brandberg is a member of the WHO Collaborative Council working-group for Sanitation Promotion and RedRRegistered Engineers for Disaster Relief. He is also the principal developer of the SanPlat System for lowest cost environmental sanitation, the author of the handbook Latrine Building and initiator of the internet based information exchange group on control of cholera. He is also an adviser on technology and financial sustainability to the Lighthouse Foundation, a National NGO in Swaziland working with rehabilitation of street children and abusers of drugs and alcohol.
For further information, explore Björn's CV by clicking here.
If you want a downloaded version of the CV in Word, click here.
DW in Angola
Company Profile:
Development Workshop(DW) in Angola is a branch of Development
Workshop which is an international non-profit organisation. Since 1991 they have had
a close cooperation both with LCS, who has supplied the moulds for them, and SBI
Consulting, who has shared their accumulated experience.
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