WORKSHOP 8
The Lingering Failure of Sanitation – Why?
Major action-oriented milestones for sanitation are many: the first United Nations water conference at Mar Del Plata in 1977 established
a goal of “Water and Sanitation for All”; the 1980s were declared the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade; and the
UN Millen-nium Development Goal (MDG) targets seek to halve the proportion of people lacking access to improved sanitation by 2015.
Yet, with approximately 2.6 billion people still lacking improved sanitation, the results have clearly been poor. A critical review and renewed efforts on health and hygiene issues are urgently needed.
How can we utilise field experiences from past commitments in efforts
to design and implement approaches for sanitation that will improve
the situation in the future? For instance, how can flexibility be included
in the approach to meet changing conditions?
The workshop will provide a platform for participants to
discuss strengths and weaknesses in existing sanitation approaches. It will identify causes for frequent failures in planning, decision making, implementation, management and operation. Emphasis will be given to the role of rapidly changing urban, human and political contexts that impact sanitation. Case study abstracts that illustrate how sanitation projects and programmes have been planned and imple-mented during recent decades, and to what extent and why they have functioned or failed, are invited.
Submit Abstract
The line is closed. If you have questions regarding the abstract submission, please email: jakob.ericsson@siwi.org
Thank you.
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