Development and production

Peter Bysted and Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen have managed to build up a network of experts who will be of help in launching the project, individuals who are working in the fields of law, manufacturing, medicine and public health. Similarly, throughout the initial stages of the project, there has been close contact with relief organizations in order to ensure that these primary purchasers' needs are also being taken into account.

It is being considered to place the development, the operation and the sale of the Child-Friendly Latrine under the auspices of a foundation, so that the business model can be developed in synch with the possibilities that present themselves. Whatever surplus profit the foundation might acquire can be used for emergency relief and emergency relief innovation.

"This is going to be a non-profit venture on our part, all the way from the get-go. Our contribution, then, involves nothing beyond that we want to succeed, that we want to have this all work out, in reality, with the end result that millions of people's basic needs will be met in a markedly better, more hygienic and thus lifesaving way," says Peter Bysted.

The actual manufacture of the latrines will come to transpire through licensing agreements, set up to ensure quality - and will unfold through a contract framework based on principles of open-calculation with clear requirements regarding transparency. In this way, there will be an assurance that nobody is tipping the scales or amassing large profits for him/herself along the chain of commerce.