Call for cases, inputs and experiences AfricaSan III:

Providing sanitation services in dense low income settlements in coastal and waterfront areas is a challenge for municipal planners and service providers and requires creative and innovative ideas, approaches and actions in various sectors.

The challenges include appropriate technical solutions as well as approaches and methods to stimulate demand and link household, private and public actors to ensure ongoing service delivery.

The urgency for tailored and integrated solutions is driven by the imperative to provide safe sanitation and highlighted by environmental concerns due to domestic and industrial pollution (see for example www.gpa.unep.org).

Through structured lesson sharing exchange at AfricaSan III and a follow up in-depth learning and sharing exchange between East and Southern Africa, facilitated by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and WIN-SA supported by AusAID Southern Africa, it is hoped that knowledge will be strengthened on cost-effective, technically, socio-economically and environmentally innovative and replicable approaches to sanitation and waste management in densely populated low income communities in coastal and waterfront areas in East and Southern Africa.

If you have experiences, research, cases to share, please contact Alana Potter (potter@irc.nl).