Sustainable Sanitation for All by Petra Bongartz

Author:Petra Bongartz [Bongartz, Petra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780449289
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Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Published: 2016-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Why a phased approach?

The phased approach aims to protect the ODF process, but also introduces incentives to progress beyond ODF status to broader environmental sanitation outcomes. Additional sanitation finance is provided in the later stages, to accelerate progress and reward improved sanitation behaviour. However, it is conditioned on community commitment to sanitation and hygiene improvement as evidenced by verification of ODF status, and it is carefully targeted to those most in need of assistance to build and use durable and hygienic sanitation facilities.

Importantly, the ODF phase is achieved without the use of direct financial assistance,5 which means that effective demand creation and behaviour change are required, while making sure that local sanitation markets are not skewed or undermined by supply-driven project activities or large hardware subsidies.

In the second stage, the good sanitation behaviour associated with ODF status is rewarded by additional finance and support to assist the community to develop more durable and hygienic facilities, improve school and institutional sanitation facilities,6 and encourage routine handwashing with soap.

Poor and vulnerable households, who may be able to build simple toilets using local materials during the ODF phase (sometimes with assistance from other members of the community, particularly if they lack sufficient labour to dig pits and construct toilets), often lack the resources or market access required to upgrade their facilities and develop more durable and attractive toilets.

The provision of carefully targeted assistance to these households during the second phase, while encouraging household choice and ownership, increases the chances of the entire community upgrading to the more durable, hygienic, and user-friendly sanitation facilities that are likely to encourage sustainable use and maintenance (see Box 9.1).

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