What Potential is there for Container Based Sanitation and the Social Enterprise in Urban Emergencies?

Traditional alternatives have included: lined pit latrines, raised latrines and urine diverting dry toilets (UDDTs). These alternatives might be suitable in addressing the unfavourable ground conditions, but are not necessarily able to address the constraints encountered in the urban environment. For this reason agencies have started to take a closer look at some of the newer container based sanitation (CBS) approaches being developed by social enterprises (SEs), research institutions and the private sector.In order to assess the possible suitability of the newer CBS technologies, what is needed is a direct comparison of traditional sanitation approaches and CBS in the same, or very similar, setting. Unfortunately many of the new sanitation technologies (CBS and others) are still in relatively early phases of development and have not been piloted in these settings so direct comparison is difficult. Indeed many of the social enterprises, some of which have been operating in relatively stable environments for several years, have still failed to reach significant scale or approach profitability

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.1 Santa Cruz, Bolivia - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.10 Palu, Indonesia - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.11 Dumaguete, Philippines - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.12 Manila, Philippines - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.2 Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.3 Managua, Nicaragua - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.4 Maputo, Mozambique - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.5 Dakar, Senegal - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.6 Kampala, Uganda - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.7 Dhaka, Bangladesh - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.8 Delhi, India - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

A Review of Fecal Sludge Management in 12 Cities - Annex A.9 Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Unpublished Report (Final Draft)

Achieving sustained environmental health improvements in Freetown through fecal sludge management enterprises - Various documents on results from rese...

This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Mirco Keller is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Further information is also available on the SuSanA discussion forum, see link below.Goal(s):The overall goal of the Project is to decrease in the quantity of untreated faecal sludge being released into the environment of Freetown.Objectives:Three outcomes have been set to achieve the above mentioned goal:1. Strengthened regulatory environment and improved public infrastructure for FSM2. Strengthened private sector entities in collection and transport of faecal sludge3. Increased community awareness, acceptance and use of appropriate FSMImplementation partners: Freetown City Council (FCC); Private Sector; WSUP (Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor) Advisory, Local consultancy firms+++++++++++Documents available for download below:1 - Presentation about this project at FSM3 Conference in Hanoi (January 2015)