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From the course by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies

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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies

438 ratings

Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Be up-to-date on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Get to know best practice examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you! This course provides you with an introduction to integrated sanitation planning, both on a citywide scale and for specific contexts such as informal settlements. You will become familiar with different sanitation planning frameworks as well as different systems and technologies relevant along the sanitation value chain. You will learn why systems’ thinking is crucial for urban environmental sanitation, and how to apply key terminology and important concepts. INSTRUCTION Eawag-Sandec and EPFL jointly offer this course with support from sanitation experts of the World Bank and WHO. LANGUAGES We simultaneously offer this course in English and French. The name of the French course is « Planification & Design des Systèmes et Technologies d’Assainissement ». MOOC SERIES This course is one of four in the series “Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development".

From the lesson

Introduction to sanitation planning & systems approach

To get started, you will get an overview of why sanitation is important for human health and environmental protection, especially in urban areas. Then, you will learn about what an Enabling Environment is and why it is important. Towards the end of the first week, you will get a taste of some state-of-the-art environmental sanitation planning approaches (Sanitation 21, CLUES, CLTS) that are currently being used in international development work.

1.1 Overview of the course5:23

1.2 City Sanitation Planning (Guest lecture)12:03

1.3a City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [1] (Guest lecture)7:49

1.3b City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [2] (Guest lecture)11:00

1.4 Local Level Sanitation Planning [1]8:01

1.5 Local Level Sanitation Planning [2]4:20

1.6 Local Level Sanitation Planning [3]10:54

1.7 Summary Week 13:22

Meet the Instructors

Christoph Lüthi
Dr.
Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development / Eawag

In this first week of the course, we've learned about some main challenges

in urban sanitation, and provided an introduction

to two distinct, but similar, planning frameworks.

Both approaches recognize the complex institutional realities

of urban areas, bringing together

the different stakeholders at different levels.

At the household domain, the importance

of households, individual households, for the choice of sanitation technology.

At the neighborhood level,

the importance of the different actors

involved in providing affordable sanitation services.

At the municipal or citywide domain, the different actors

providing citywide services.

And, finally, at the regional, or watershed domain,

the actors involved in dealing with issues that impact

environments beyond the city level.

In this week, we've talked about two urban sanitation planning frameworks:

Sanitation 21, introduced by Jonathan Parkinson,

and the CLUES community-led urban environmental sanitation

planning approach, developed by Eawag with UN-HABITAT and WSCC.

Sanitation 21 provides five planning stages.

First, defining the institutional commitment for service delivery.

Second, understanding the existing context and capacities.

The third stage assesses different strategies

for the system improvement and the costs that these imply.

The fourth stage then formulates the management arrangements

and cost recovery mechanisms.

Lastly, how to prepare for implementation, including institutional agreements

and planned dissemination.

We've pointed out the importance of financial comparison

of options in Sanitation 21,

and the financial data that is needed and that needs to be brought together

in terms of capital investment, operation and routine maintenance,

and capital maintenance to conduct a proper financial analysis

and life cycle assessment for the selection of affordable solutions.

CLUES, at the local level, has seven planning steps,

beginning with process ignition, and triggering of the community,

and ending with step seven: implementation of improved services.

We've also pointed out the importance of stakeholder participation

in the CLUES approach,

bringing together the different stakeholders

during the different steps of a planning process.

We've shown the importance of enabling environments:

the government support needed, the existing legal

and regulatory frameworks, the institutional arrangements

between different actors at different levels,

the skills and capacities needed, the financial arrangements,

including issues like microfinance tools and vehicles,

and, finally, the socio-cultural acceptance of different solutions sought.

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