Hygiene Central - Part of The London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineWater Graphic
Practitioners - Researchers - Students - Partners

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Home
Search
Sitemap
Contact
Login

News
People
Projects
Research Areas
Publications

Resources
Links

International Year of Sanitation 2008

You are at Sanitation Summary

Sustainable Sanitation

How To Use These Pages:


The safe disposal of human excreta is a basic human need and one of the most important improvements any government can make towards improving public health. At present more than 2.6 billion people worldwide lack access to improved sanitation, of which most live in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. This situation in the twenty-first century is scandalous.


The Challenges


There appears to be a set of recurrent problems within the sanitation sector that prevent substantive progress being made. These include:

In depth...


Time To Reflect


Before designing another latrine building project it may be worth considering:

• What exactly are you trying to achieve?

• Why do households want latrines?
• Who are building latrines at the moment?
• Why do some areas have such low latrine coverage?

In depth...


Rethinking Your Approach

If ‘business as usual’ is not the way forward, then what is? It may be time for a re-think:

• Rethinking the whole approach - An overview of Sanitation Marketing
• Rethinking Policy and Regulation
• Rethinking the use of Subsidies
• Rethinking partnership
• Rethinking the latrine design process
• Rethinking excreta management in urban areas
• Rethinking excreta management in rural areas
• The perceived need to be integrated with water supply

In depth...


 
Some Useful Ways To Conceptualise Changing Your Approach  


Sometimes a conceptual model of what you are trying achieve can help understanding and design.

In depth...

 
Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT
Tel:+ 44 207 927 2214 Fax:+ 44 207 636 7843

 
pauledwards.biz