Waste Management

According to WHO, poor waste disposal practices are responsible for a significant proportion of the world's infectious disease burden. In many areas, municipal sewage is often mixed with industrial waste and in some regions very little wastewater receives treatment before it is discharged into the environment. Resources available in this sub-theme include assessment reports of wastewater treatment plants, national strategies for sewage disposal, among other resources that support sustainable waste management.

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Waste Management Resources

Improving Sanitation, Building Skills in Household Latrine Construction

Published: 
June 1, 2012
Relief InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
This success story is from the Ghana WASH, USAID-funded, project. It focuses on how the project built local capacity and demand for household latrines.Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

Sofala Province Integrated Health, Water and Sanitation Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
Final report by Africare on a project (7/93-9/96) to reduce water-borne and other diarrheal diseases in selected peri-urban and rural populations in Beira and Chibabava District, Sofala Province, Mozambique. In 5/94, the WASH project, which had spearheaded the original project design, redirected...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Sustainability Assessment for the Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The sustainability of the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project, scheduled for completion 9/92, is assessed. The project has successfully constructed wells and demonstration latrines; provided training to village health committees, government extension workers, and pump repair workers; and...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Domestic Water Supply and Sanitation in Irrigation Projects

Published: 
May 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Serving some 880,000 ha along the Blue Nile in Sudan, the Gezira-Managil Irrigation Scheme has led to dramatic increases in occurrences of malaria, schistosomiasis, diarrhea, and other water-related diseases. This study uses Gezira-Managil as a case in point to draw the attention of project...Read more
Regional focus: 
SudanSub-Saharan Africa

Latrine Construction Workshop for Health Workers in El Rahad, North Kordofan, Republic of Sudan

Published: 
April 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
At the request of the USAID Mission in Sudan, the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project sent a two-person team to North Kordofan from January to February 1986 to assist the Regional Ministry of Health and Rural Health Support Project (RHSP) in conducting two workshops for ministry staff...Read more
Regional focus: 
SudanSub-Saharan Africa

Central African Republic Identification and Formulation of Water Supply and Sanitation Projects

Published: 
December 1, 1985
U.S. Agency for International Development
The findings of this report identify that the Government of the Central African Republic should: negotiate new NGO subprojects as turnkey subprojects to be implemented under governmental guidelines, execute the most urgent subprojects as soon as possible, continue to define priority action zones,...Read more
Regional focus: 
Central African RepublicSub-Saharan Africa

Gedaref Water Supply and Solid Waste Disposal Feasibility Study - Sudan

Published: 
January 1, 1983
U.S. Agency for International Development
Water supply problems in the Gedaref area of Sudan were found to be complex and serious due to the water source situation and the extensive nature of its service area. One high lift water pump transmitted treated river water to over Z00,000 people through a single transmission line of 68.4...Read more
Regional focus: 
SudanSub-Saharan Africa

Environmental Sanitation and Protection Project

Published: 
January 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
Evaluates project to test options for improving environmental sanitation in Botswana. Evaluation covers the period 1/80-12/81 and is based on document review, onsite interviews with project functionaries and beneficiaries, and field visits. The project has not progressed as planned. Due to poor...Read more
Regional focus: 
BotswanaSub-Saharan Africa

Downstream of the Toilet: Transforming Poo into Profit

U.S. Agency for International Development
This briefing note provides a look into the private-sector service delivery model that WASHplus and the International NGO Practica designed and piloted in Ambositra, Madagascar to sustainably manage fecal sludge generated in the city using low-cost decentralized technologies.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Frontiers of CLTS Issue 3: Disability - Making CLTS Fully Inclusive

Published: 
July 25, 2014
WaterAidWEDC - Loughborough University
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) aims at total sanitation. For that it has to be inclusive. There are ethical reasons for this, but the bottom line is that while any open defecation continues, all are affected. This issue of Frontiers of CLTS focuses on people with disabilities and particular...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

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