EcoTact is dedicated to sustainable sanitation by focusing on architecture, behavioral change, cleanliness, and disposal technologies through the creation of the "Toilet Mall," or "IKOToilet." Combining pay-per-use sanitation services with additional businesses EcoTact attracts consumers, ensures local involvement and sustainability through a franchised management structure that promotes local entrepreneurship through the selling of biogas generated waste products to use as fertilizer compost.

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EcoTact toilet mall in Mathare slums of Nairobi

In Nairobi, EcoTact's short-term goal is the construction of 50 facilities in impoverished areas serving about 40,000 people per day, 20 in schools serving 40,000 students, and 20 in urban markets and bus stations serving 20,000 people daily. EcoTacts's long-term goal is to develop innovative social investments in environmental sanitation and management in Africa and beyond.

The toilet mall and IKOtoilet program is a private/public partnership between EcoTact (private), respective local authorities, and water and sanitation utilities (public). All are geared towards the provision of hygienic public utilities. The facilities have an ecological and green design which uses a waterless urinal, solar power to support the facility, rain harvest to cut down the water bill, and production of biogas from human waste and urine recovery for agricultural use.

The design of the IKOtoilet facilities includes water treatment and purification via UV rays to ensure the availability of safe drinking water to the public. To encourage the public to use the pay-per-use sanitation facilities and change perceptions towards toilets, the facility includes add-ons such as bathing facilities, baby changing rooms, snack shop and a shoe shine centre.

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