Days 2 and 3 of the workshop "Towards sustainable total sanitation"

Published on: 14/11/2013

Day 2 and 3 were organised around the concept of a service. Following the introduction of what a sanitation service should encompass, remaining presentations focused on two broad themes; institutionalization and financing.

 

1. One session shared feedback from the institutionalization of CLTS in Liberia and two experiences from Nigeria on local inter-administration collaboration and the scaling up of the Local Government Area (LGA) wide approach.
2. Financial issues such as the operationalisation of Public Treasury accounts in Burkina Faso, micro-financing for sanitation facilities in Benin and excreta valorisation in an Ecosan initiative were presented and discussed among the participants.

These experiences shared allowed the launch of a collective reflective effort to come up with concrete actions to implement sustainable sanitation services. The set-up of such services does not rely only on finances and institutions, but also on social and technical aspects. To pursue the dialogue on these themes, team exercises were set up in the form of a World Café. The solutions identified, developed and validated will be shared with a wider audience through the publication of a booklet by the end of 2013.