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FSM2 Conference in Durban, South Africa - Conference materials

The Second International Faecal Sludge Management Conference was held in Durban from the 29th to the 31st of October 2012. 320 delegates from around the world shared ideas and discussed challenges and opportunities in on-site sanitation.Below you find the Conference Report and the list of papers in alphabetical order by main author last name.The available FSM2 conference presentations in PDF can be downloaded at https://www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/trainings-conference-and-events-materials/conferences/2012/53-fsm2-durban-south-africa-october-2012.Videos from the presentations are also available in the conference page.

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FSM2 Conference in Durban, South Africa - Conference materials

The Second International Faecal Sludge Management Conference was held in Durban from the 29th to the 31st of October 2012. 320 delegates from around the world shared ideas and discussed challenges and opportunities in on-site sanitation.Below you find the Conference Report and the list of papers in alphabetical order by main author last name.The available FSM2 conference presentations in PDF can be downloaded at https://www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/trainings-conference-and-events-materials/conferences/2012/53-fsm2-durban-south-africa-october-2012.Videos from the presentations are also available in the conference page.

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FSM2 Conference in Durban, South Africa - Conference materials

The Second International Faecal Sludge Management Conference was held in Durban from the 29th to the 31st of October 2012. 320 delegates from around the world shared ideas and discussed challenges and opportunities in on-site sanitation.Below you find the Conference Report and the list of papers in alphabetical order by main author last name.The available FSM2 conference presentations in PDF can be downloaded at https://www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/trainings-conference-and-events-materials/conferences/2012/53-fsm2-durban-south-africa-october-2012.Videos from the presentations are also available in the conference page.

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Gap Analysis in Emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

The emergency Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (WASH) gap analysis project was funded by The Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF), a program managed by Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA) in partnership with the Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), and is a component of a larger initiative to identify and support innovations in emergency WASH.The project was commissioned to identify the major challenges that require innovative solutions in humanitarian WASH. It is a targeted effort to identify different stakeholder perspectives of the gaps and spaces for innovation in emergency WASH, rather than a systematic review of the evidence around WASH programming. A total of 909 people were consulted across around 40 countries, involving individual practitioners and approximately 45 different organizations, spanning donors, the UN system and international and national NGOs Data was collected during a six month consultation period and draws on six complementary research components:- A review of relevant literature produced over the last five years- Structured focus group discussions with eight beneficiary groups in six countries- Facilitated workshop discussion with WASH practitioners working at the country and sub-national level in 12 countries- An on-line survey of humanitarian WASH practitioners- Two facilitated sessions with Global WASH Cluster (GWC) meetings- Consultation with five major donor organisations supporting humanitarian WASH programming and policy Across all six components of the analysis, sanitation issues were identified as the major area with gaps and potential for innovation. The second major gap identified by four groups was hygiene issues; the country and sub country WASH sector groups and the beneficiary groups selected water as the second priority and hygiene third. The specific issues raised have been consolidated into 57 different categories. These were then ranked according to the number of times they were mentioned in the feedback and the priority they were given in the workshops. The most significant gaps identified in emergency WASH were:1. Latrines in locations where no pits are possible (urban, high watertable/flooding)2. Community participation and empowerment of vulnerable groups, including monitoring and evaluation from the outset3. Latrine emptying and desludging4. Hygiene promotion and the importance of understanding context, including socioanthropology issues5. Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and sanitation marketing6. Urban alternatives for excreta disposal7. Exit strategies and sustainability issues from the outset8. Final sewage disposal options after desludging and treatment9. Further development of non-toilet options/ early response/mobile10. Hand washing hardware and Promotion and sustainability (including soap) and non-soap options11. Water Treatment, particularly bulk and point of use household filters, including cost and sustainability issues12. The need for low-tech WASH solutions acceptable and sustainable by localsFrom this list it is clear that excreta disposal issues such as latrines in areas where pits cannot be dug, desludging latrines, no-toilet options and the final treatment or disposal of the sewage are the areas in which people have identified gaps in emergency responses. Unsurprisingly, given current patterns in urban migration and the nature of recent emergency responses, urban sanitation in particular was identified as a major gap. The other major issue highlighted was weak community participation and the critical importance of designing appropriate hygiene Promotion activities for each context. Sustainability also emerged as an important issue for all WASH activities, as did the emergencydevelopment continuum, the importance of better preparation and resilience and the need for exit strategies and environmental considerations.As to be expected, there were many other issues highlighted by various groups which were beyond the scope of this project but were nonetheless worthy of note. A major issue, for example, was coordination with local state actors and NGOs, coordination within the GWC and coordination between GWC and other Clusters. Additionally respondents mentioned funding issues, training, and preparation/prepositioning.The next phase of this project will be to facilitate a structured innovation process to identify the strategies, methodologies and technologies that can be used to address the gaps which are not already being dealt with by other initiatives.

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Mobile sanitation services for dense urban slums - Various documents on results from research grant.

This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Kory Russel is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Further information and a discussion is available on the SuSanA discussion Forum, see link below.Short description of the project:We aim to develop a low-cost sanitation service for the one billion (and growing) people living in urban slums. We seek to perfect the hardware and service model for this service in order to facilitate entrepreneurial franchises around the world. Our first pilot was in Shada, a community in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, in close collaboration with our friends at SOIL.We are developing a portable, low-cost household toilet and entrepreneurial service model to deliver a safe, dignified sanitation service in urban slums. We piloted a container-based system in Shada, a slum that has no sewers and no piped water supply. Our toilet is portable, with removable containers to collect and transport wastes safely from the community. Waste is being processed at SOILs human waste composting facilities, generating fertilizer to improve Haitis devastated soil resources. Our strategy is to enable local entrepreneurs to recover energy, nutrients, and material from the waste in order to subsidize the cost of the sanitation system, reduce user fees, earn a livelihood, improve the environment and boost agricultural productivity.Since our toilets are portable, users do not need to make a large up-front payment to use our service. They subscribe for a small monthly fee, and receive the toilet as part of the service. If they terminate the service or are evicted without the option of continuing service elsewhere, they can return the toilet at no penalty.Objectives / Activities / Key Components:1. Design a modern, portable, affordable, and stylish container-based toilet that will appeal to urban customers who otherwise aspire to a flush toilet.2. Develop business tools to foster the growth of sanitation service businesses around the toilets.3. Pilot both the toilet and service in a rigorous, research based trial .4. Integrate mobile waste tracking technology into the service to monitor performance, maximize efficiency, and minimize service costs.5. Convert all collected waste into useful and valuable end products.6. Produce rigorous research and business assessment tools to test and improve container-based systems ensuring that they can scale while protecting and satisfying their users.+++++++++++++Documents available for download:1 - Short presentation during webinar on 7 November 20132 - The Encyclopoodia - A compendium of toilets for the sake of inspiring great solutions to meet that need that no one wants to talk about3 - Presentation on assessing the effectiveness of container-based sanitation (CBS) in Cap Haitien, Haiti. FSM3 Conference in Hanoi, Jan. 2015 (by Sebastien Tilmans, Kory Russel, Sasha Kramer, Leah Page, Rachel Sklar, Jenna Davis)

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Mobile sanitation services for dense urban slums - Various documents on results from research grant.

This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Kory Russel is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Further information and a discussion is available on the SuSanA discussion Forum, see link below.Short description of the project:We aim to develop a low-cost sanitation service for the one billion (and growing) people living in urban slums. We seek to perfect the hardware and service model for this service in order to facilitate entrepreneurial franchises around the world. Our first pilot was in Shada, a community in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, in close collaboration with our friends at SOIL.We are developing a portable, low-cost household toilet and entrepreneurial service model to deliver a safe, dignified sanitation service in urban slums. We piloted a container-based system in Shada, a slum that has no sewers and no piped water supply. Our toilet is portable, with removable containers to collect and transport wastes safely from the community. Waste is being processed at SOILs human waste composting facilities, generating fertilizer to improve Haitis devastated soil resources. Our strategy is to enable local entrepreneurs to recover energy, nutrients, and material from the waste in order to subsidize the cost of the sanitation system, reduce user fees, earn a livelihood, improve the environment and boost agricultural productivity.Since our toilets are portable, users do not need to make a large up-front payment to use our service. They subscribe for a small monthly fee, and receive the toilet as part of the service. If they terminate the service or are evicted without the option of continuing service elsewhere, they can return the toilet at no penalty.Objectives / Activities / Key Components:1. Design a modern, portable, affordable, and stylish container-based toilet that will appeal to urban customers who otherwise aspire to a flush toilet.2. Develop business tools to foster the growth of sanitation service businesses around the toilets.3. Pilot both the toilet and service in a rigorous, research based trial .4. Integrate mobile waste tracking technology into the service to monitor performance, maximize efficiency, and minimize service costs.5. Convert all collected waste into useful and valuable end products.6. Produce rigorous research and business assessment tools to test and improve container-based systems ensuring that they can scale while protecting and satisfying their users.+++++++++++++Documents available for download:1 - Short presentation during webinar on 7 November 20132 - The Encyclopoodia - A compendium of toilets for the sake of inspiring great solutions to meet that need that no one wants to talk about3 - Presentation on assessing the effectiveness of container-based sanitation (CBS) in Cap Haitien, Haiti. FSM3 Conference in Hanoi, Jan. 2015 (by Sebastien Tilmans, Kory Russel, Sasha Kramer, Leah Page, Rachel Sklar, Jenna Davis)

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Mobile sanitation services for dense urban slums - Various documents on results from research grant.

This library entry contains background documents for a grant that Kory Russel is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.Further information and a discussion is available on the SuSanA discussion Forum, see link below.Short description of the project:We aim to develop a low-cost sanitation service for the one billion (and growing) people living in urban slums. We seek to perfect the hardware and service model for this service in order to facilitate entrepreneurial franchises around the world. Our first pilot was in Shada, a community in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, in close collaboration with our friends at SOIL.We are developing a portable, low-cost household toilet and entrepreneurial service model to deliver a safe, dignified sanitation service in urban slums. We piloted a container-based system in Shada, a slum that has no sewers and no piped water supply. Our toilet is portable, with removable containers to collect and transport wastes safely from the community. Waste is being processed at SOILs human waste composting facilities, generating fertilizer to improve Haitis devastated soil resources. Our strategy is to enable local entrepreneurs to recover energy, nutrients, and material from the waste in order to subsidize the cost of the sanitation system, reduce user fees, earn a livelihood, improve the environment and boost agricultural productivity.Since our toilets are portable, users do not need to make a large up-front payment to use our service. They subscribe for a small monthly fee, and receive the toilet as part of the service. If they terminate the service or are evicted without the option of continuing service elsewhere, they can return the toilet at no penalty.Objectives / Activities / Key Components:1. Design a modern, portable, affordable, and stylish container-based toilet that will appeal to urban customers who otherwise aspire to a flush toilet.2. Develop business tools to foster the growth of sanitation service businesses around the toilets.3. Pilot both the toilet and service in a rigorous, research based trial .4. Integrate mobile waste tracking technology into the service to monitor performance, maximize efficiency, and minimize service costs.5. Convert all collected waste into useful and valuable end products.6. Produce rigorous research and business assessment tools to test and improve container-based systems ensuring that they can scale while protecting and satisfying their users.+++++++++++++Documents available for download:1 - Short presentation during webinar on 7 November 20132 - The Encyclopoodia - A compendium of toilets for the sake of inspiring great solutions to meet that need that no one wants to talk about3 - Presentation on assessing the effectiveness of container-based sanitation (CBS) in Cap Haitien, Haiti. FSM3 Conference in Hanoi, Jan. 2015 (by Sebastien Tilmans, Kory Russel, Sasha Kramer, Leah Page, Rachel Sklar, Jenna Davis)