Sustainable Sanitation for Cities

1. Sustainable Sanitation for Cities http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org

2. a. panesar / c. luthi / t. schuetze gtz / eawag-sandec / tu delft 18/08/2008 2008.10.09 IUCN Barcelona Capacity Development Costs and Economics Renewable Energy, Groundwater Protection and Climate Change Sanitation systems, technology options, hygiene and health Food Security and Productive Sanitation Systems Working Group 6: Sustainable Sanitation for Cities

3. partners (in alphabetic order) AEE-Intec Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Austia) BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany BOKU Bodenkunde Universität, Wien, Austria EETP China Sweden Erdos Eco-Town Project EU-SWITCH represented through Unesco-IHE and WUR Eawag/Sandec Swiss Water Research Institute / Department of Water Supply and [lead] Sanitation in Developing Countries gtz [lead] Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Germany IRC International Reference Center, The Netherlands IRHA International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance ITAS Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Germany IWA International Water Association IWMI International Water Management Institute IWWA Indian Water Works Association RUAF Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security SEI Stockholm Environmental Institute SWH Swedish Water House, Stockholm TU-Delft Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands TUHH Technical University Hamburg Harburg UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlement Programme Univ. Essex University of Essex, UK WSP World Bank Water and Sanitation Programm WUR Wageningen University and Research Centre

4. partners (yet active in preparing fact sheet 1 & 2) AEE-Intec Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Austia) BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany BOKU Bodenkunde Universität, Wien, Austria EETP China Sweden Erdos Eco-Town Project EU-SWITCH represented through Unesco-IHE and WUR Eawag/Sandec Swiss Water Research Institute / Department of Water Supply and [lead] Sanitation in Developing Countries gtz [lead] Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Germany IRC International Reference Center, The Netherlands IRHA International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance ITAS Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Germany IWA International Water Association IWMI International Water Management Institute IWWA Indian Water Works Association RUAF Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Food Security SEI Stockholm Environmental Institute SWH Swedish Water House, Stockholm TU-Delft Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands TUHH Technical University Hamburg Harburg UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education UN-Habitat United Nations Human Settlement Programme Univ. Essex University of Essex, UK WSP World Bank Water and Sanitation Programm WUR Wageningen University and Research Centre

5. main outputs • Thematic paper: “Sustainable Sanitation for Cities” 12pp • Fact Sheet: “Planning for Sustainable Sanitation” 8pp • Case Study Collection (ongoing) • Publication: Research in Urbanism Series (in prep.)

6. thematic paper: ‘sustainable sanitation for cities’ 1 • Addresses key issues & scale of the urban sanitation problem • Target group: policy makers, agencies, governments • Narrative: complex but manageable

7. Non-tenured low-income settlem. (inner-city slums) Tenured or non-tenured peri-urban interface Planned urban development areas (low income) Non-residential buildings content: thematic paper • Specific urban contexts • The way forward for urban sanitation • Interface btw research, implementation & dissemination

8. - complexity of the urban context provides not only problems, but opportunities: • vibrant NGOs or business service providers; • economic and business opportunities; content: thematic paper

9. Urban agriculture Energy from waste Irrigation of crops Land application Forage from CW the way forward UDDToilets enable fruitful dialogue btw engineers, planners and developers to integrate sustainable sanitation in the urban planning & devpt. agenda.

10. the way forward • Demand creation : no special sanitation option should be imposed onto users. However, only if sufficient information on sustainable sanitation options is available for a given context can a truly informed choice be made… • Capacity development : more and better quality technical capacity is needed to up-scale smarter sanitation; • Understand and work towards more enabling environments

11. HCES Sanitation 21 fact sheet: ‘planning for sustainable sanitation 2 • Why past approaches have failed – supply-driven, top-down, complex and capital-intensive; • What are possible alternatives? SSA

12. some guiding principles for better planning • Understand power relationships • Ensure effective participation and build partnerships • Be realistic: unbundle interventions & improve step-by-step • Aim for safe and envir. sustainable closed-loop solutions • Understand the drivers of sanitation

13. case study sheets collection 3 • Case studies from around the world: • sustainable sanitation; • examples for good planning;

14. book publication: 2009 4 Research in Urbanism Series TU Delft ‘Sustainable Sanitation in Cities’ Main authors: Susana WG 6 Publication drawing together available knowledge from around the world using smart practice examples…

15. book publication: 2009 4

16. Developments since Stockholm (8/2007) http://www.sustainable-sanitation-alliance.org Next meeting : 24-25. Nov. 2008 at gtz, Eschborn