Module 2: Tools and approaches: challenges for the provision of sanitation
This module introduces participants to practical tools that can be applied to analyse and address challenges they face in their work environment. Participants will be exposed to state of the art experience with regard to benchmarking, participatory approaches, and strategic planning for sanitation delivery in cities.
Unit 1: Prospects for resource recovery through waste water reuse
This session provides an introduction to debates on water resource allocation and river basic closure. The Linkages between freshwater and wastewater will be discussed by examining scope for wastewater reuse.
Materials for this unit can only be accessed by joining the online course https://www.un-ihe.org/online-course-governance-decentralized-sanitation
Unit 2: Financing decentralized sanitation: Structure of Costs & Tariffs
This unit discusses the challenges for financing santiation services in periurban areas and presents different financing options
Unit 3: Design of Strategies to Improve Sanitation in Slums
This unit discusses different strategies to improve sanitation in periurban and unplanned areas, looking at why planning is important and what are the main constraints and conditions to achieve successful planning. It describes the main planning approaches developed by international organizations and provides general guidelines for sanitation planning.
Unit 4: Participatory mapping as a tool for service provision in low-income urban settings
This unit introduces the concept of participatory mapping and discusses the relevance and applications of this methodology for improving sanitation services in periurban areas. It describes different methods of participatory mapping and presents examples through real case studies.
Unit 5: Community Led Total Sanitation. A critical perspective
This unit pays a critical look at CLTS approach. It analyzes the latest shift in sanitation approaches and looks at the new envisioned roles for society, state, and market on those. The emergence and dominance of CLTS approach is analyzed through global politics and the choices values, and politics behind the spread of this grassroots approach are discussed.
Unit 6: Partnerships with small-scale operators
This unit presents what and who are the small scale operators in sanitation and what thir roles are in periurban areas. The implications of partnering with small scale operators in the provision of sanitation services are discussed and the considerations to take into account when entering in a partnership analyzed.
Unit 7: Pro-poor Benchmarking of WatSan Services
Mr. Marteen Blokland, MSc
This unit introduces the concept of benchmarking in water and sanitation and discusses the reasons for using this methodology to improve services provisioning to the poor. It provides the tools to apply a pro-poor benchmarking strategy in the field including data collection as well as assessment of results.