Planning and Implementation of Sustainable Sanitation in Peri/Semi-Urban Settings A Need for Development of Existing Tools?

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Planning and Implementation of Sustainable
Sanitation in Peri/Semi-Urban SettingsA Need
for Development of Existing Tools?
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About CREPA and advocacy works
Regional Centre for low cost Water Supply and
Sanitation
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Planning for Ecological Sanitation program for
low income countries Ouagadougou project
Ecosan_EU project facing urban realities

• Dr Amah KLUTSE

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CREPA
Bénin
Burundi
Burkina Faso
Cameroun
Centrafrique
Côte dIvoire
Gabon
Congo
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CREPA ECOSAN Program mostly in rural
municipalities/villages
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ECOSAN in urban setting big challenge
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Ecosan Project in peri-urban and urban area

• Establish an effective chain for collection,
  transport, treatment and reuse

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First big urban ECOSAN project in Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso 4 sectors targeted
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Ecosan EU project Joint initiative for urban
area

• Target groups Households, Farmers, Artisans,
  Associations, private sectors, in 4 areas in
  Ouagadougou (sector 17, 19, 27, 30)
• Partenaires techniques CREPA, GTZ, ONEA.
• Involvement of the municipalities in the
  implementation phase.
• Duration 3 years (2006 2009)
• Co-financed by EU, CREPA and GTZ

• Budget 1.497.120 euros

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Ecosan_UE project
Objectives and main activities
300 000 people understand ECOSAN

• Provide toilets facilities to the households and
  some public sites (1000 toilets)
• Put in place appropriate system that allows
  excreta collection /transport and safe reuse

• Support and promote the involvement of the local
  private sector in furnishing the infrastructure
  and if necessary the logistic services required
  by the system.

• Carry out awareness and lobby work to create an
  enabling environment for ecological sanitation
  and to ensure its inclusion in legislation

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The project in action
What so far?

• Provide toilets facilities to the households
• Put in place appropriate system that allows
  excreta collection /transport and safe reuse

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The project in action
What so far?

• Support and promote the involvement of the local
  private sector in furnishing the infrastructure
  and if necessary the logistic services required
  by the system.

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The project in action
What so far?

• Carry out awareness and lobby work to create an
  enabling environment for ecological sanitation
  and to ensure its inclusion in legislation

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The project in action
The process
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Projet ecosan_UE
Implementation approach

• Involve targets groups and authorities
• HCES approach

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The project in action
Components of local project teams
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First year preparatory activities

• Contact with local authorities and administrative
  in charge of sanitation ( individual meetings or
  at community level,)
• Information to the population , demand
  formulation (presentation of the project, the
  process, and expectations)
• Dialogue meeting (with decision makers, etc)

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First year preparatory activities

• Baseline study ( validation in sectors)
• Strategic ECOSAN plan for the four sectors (
  validation in sector)
• Criteria for choice of the beneficiaries and
  conditions to have acces to facilities

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The project in action
Train the local star to reach the targets
groups
Identify local star (singers, awareness raising
actors,) and train them to convey the messages
to the population and project target groups
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The project in action
Public awareness putting local authorities in
front..
Use the local formal ways of communication to
inform the population about the sanitation
problems and about the project approach and its
planning processes
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The project in action
Informing authorities and attributing them roles
Meetings with relevant authorities at their
offices and at the municipal council, were the
successful to convince them about the new
sanitation approach and the project planning
processes
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The project in action
Developing capacities empowering actors
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The project in action
Organize an official launchevent for strong
commitment
Strong speeches from authorities at the Top can
ensure the targets groups at the Bottom.
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The project in action
Bringing authorities and targets groups together
for dialogue project piloting committee...
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The project in action
Collect reliable base line data for sustainable
actions
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The project in action
Validation and identification of priorities
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The project in action
Participatory ECOSAN strategic plan development
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Second year implement the system
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Construction of infrastructures

• Capacity building of stakeholders
• Mobilization of beneficiaries contribution
• Construction and quality assurance

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Training of local masons
Etats des lieux des activités
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Etats des lieux des activités
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Demand for infrastructures

• Motivation
• Permanent
• Cheaper (200-400 compared to 400-600 for
  VIP/pour flush promoted by ONEA)
• Less problems during rainy period with pits
  filling up
• For urban farmers, also reuse appeals
• Problem POOR people very little money
  (especially with price-hikes)

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Double vault toilet (cement bricks or adobe for
superstructure)
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Single vault toilet inside house or in garden
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Cheaper model 1
Double vault toilet (all in adobe bricks)
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Cheaper model 2 Single vault toilet adobe
superstructure
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Single vault toilet
Storage of faeces bag on site
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Capacity building of private enterprises

• training of local contractor to construct the
  public Ecosan toilets and the site of
  sanitatization

Séance des présentations
Visite guidée
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The project in action
Inauguration of 1st ecosan toilets in
Ouagadougou...
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• Now around 350 household toilets (since december
  2007)
• Public toilets (loop closed on site)
• Demo-toilets in the garden of the three city
  halls
• Toilets in Ouaga prison
• Toiltes in Ouaga forest reserve
• Toilets in one school/sector under way

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The project in action
Collection/treatment/delivery
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The project in action
High decentralization of the services provision
to allow local private sector promotion
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The project in action
Targets groups choices/ which materials
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Training of farmers and vegetable sellers

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Support and capacity building to farmers
MACO, Kit de matériel agricole remis
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Participative assessment case of courgette in
sector 17

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Participatory assessment case of choux and
onion in sector 19


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Participatory assessment case of tomato and
cucumber in sector 30






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Participatory assessment case of melon in
sector 30







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Compaoré L. Frédéric, sector 30
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Planning in the project
Many stakeholders from different institutions
involved. First year Translate the project
document to concrete activities - project
coordinator planned and brought together multi
skilled teams for each activity to be carried out
(retreats important to plan baseline study and
then strategic plan) Second year Participative
planning (1 week retreat) with all stakeholders
and formation of 7 task-teams
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Planning in the project

• Teams second year
• Social aspects/interactions with households
• Technical
• Private sector/CBO
• Agro
• Risk
• Communication
• Institution/coordination

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Planning confronts reality
Price hike Project parallell wih ONEA on-site
program (confrontation between different
facilitators) Dealing with hidden interests of
local authorities
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Some hot points to deal with year three.

• Partnership between municipality and the private
  sector
• Economic sustainability of the collection/treatmen
  t system?
• Continuous sensitization but who will support
  the cost after the project?
• Institutional set-up for sustainability
• Role of the politicians (municipalities leaders,
  team leaders, etc, ..
• Legal framework
• Subsidies issues/integration of ECOSAN into
  ONEAs sanitation program

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Thanks for your attention