World Toilet Organization
Today, WTO is a growing network of 235 organizations in 58 countries.
World Toilet Organization declared its founding day 19 November in 2001, as World Toilet day and this is now celebrated worldwide each year towards improving the state of toilets and sanitation globally.
In 2005, Jack founded the World Toilet College to provide high quality training in Toilet Design, Maintenance, Cleanliness and Ecological Sanitation Technologies. The college is a joint venture with the Singapore Polytechnic.
The same year 2005, he successfully lobbied for potty parity and changed the Singapore’s building codes to have more cubicles in ladies restrooms so they never have to queue up for the restrooms. US Congress passed a similar law in 2010.
In 2007, Jack became one of the key members to convene the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance composed of key players for sanitation. Members include UN-Habitat, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank, World Sanitation Financing Facility and several other international groups working together to improve sanitation for all. He heads its Asian Secretariat in Singapore.
The same year, he also became the first Singaporean elected to be an Ashoka Global Fellow.
Asian Development bank names him an ADB Water Champion.
In 2008, Jack was appointed a Council Member to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Water Security and the GAC for Social Entrepreneurship.
WTO has a commitment with President Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiatives to promote market-based sanitation in 2008 and another in 2011 to launch the BOP HUB, a global business platform for the poverty marketplace.
He has now developed a SaniShop franchise model to teach the poor how to produce and how to sell small affordable sanitation systems below U$40 per family with the support of Index Award, Rockefeller, Unilever and Singapore Economic Development Board.
In 2010, he joins the board of World Entrepreneurship Forum (under patronage of past French President Nicolas Sarkozy) and heads its Base of Pyramid Entrepreneurship (BOP) drive to bring trade to poverty sector as a sustainable way out of poverty.
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