Download or read book Analytical Framework and Management Strategy for Large scale Sustainable Sanitation written by Thoralf Schlüter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Methodological Framework for Evaluating the Environmental Performance of Large scale Sanitation Systems in Developing Countries written by Pedro Cruz-Diloné and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is 2014 and approximately 40% of the world population still has no access to adequate sanitary toilets. For these 2.6 billion people the problem is not only finding a safe and dignified place to defecate, but also trying to combat deadly diseases associated with the exposure to pathogens in feces left on the ground or near waterways. Improving sanitation is not only favorable to health, but also promotes dignity, economic benefits and environmental conservation. Although there have been numerous efforts to improve sanitation systems in the developing world, adoption rates and long term use are relatively low due to poor understanding of the multiple requirements for sustaining such systems such as environmental conditions and cultural habits. Quantifying and comparing the costs and benefits of these systems to the environment is one step in better informing decision makers in large-scale development projects, and thus facilitating the selection of sustainable sanitation systems. The research conducted puts forth a method to assess and hierarchically classify large-scale systems based on their environmental performance and context. The proposed method provides structured steps of environmental assessment and multiple-criteria decision analysis to compare and contextually evaluate the environmental implications of large-scale systems. A case study on specific sanitation systems in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti was reviewed to demonstrate and evaluate the framework. The study compared the use of urine-diversion toilets coupled with a collection system that diverts waste to a compost facility versus flush toilets connected to sewer systems with either endpoint to waste stabilization ponds or discharged into the environment without treatment. Overall, the results from this study show that the alternative involving diverting waste to a compost facility was preferred to the other alternatives for large-scale sanitation systems for Cap-Haïtien, Haiti; although there are specific conditions where it might not be. Various scenarios and analysis were developed to help provide some perspective into the results and conclusions of the methodology and the modeled case study."--Abstract.

Download or read book A Mixed Methodology for the Assessment and Planning of Public Systems for Drinking Water and Sanitation Service written by Angela Huston and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Safe drinking water and sanitation are basic needs for human health and livelihood. Sub-Saharan Africa has low, but improving, rates of access to these services, but the infrastructure in use are often rudimentary and provide only marginal control of contaminants. The challenge of achieving universal water and sanitation service delivery in sub-Saharan Africa was investigated from a public service system perspective. A framework for defining and measuring the support systems needed to maintain infrastructure was developed and applied in six countries with the aim to foster greater alignment of implementing actors and improve practice.In the first phase of the research, interviews and field visits to promising and failed sanitation interventions in East Africa revealed the importance of both local participation and government buy-in to achieve sustainability and to be able to scale up innovations. Fragmentation of knowledge and an incomplete understanding of the problem by many actors suggested the need for a more shared understanding of how services can be provided and improved. In the second phase of the research, a conceptual and analytical framework was developed based on a review of the literature, case studies in east and west Africa, and expert consultation. The framework defined the water and sanitation system according to nine sub-systems: institutions, policy and legislation, finance, planning, regulation, monitoring, water resource management, learning and adaption, and infrastructure. These were determined to be a logical way to divide the overall system into manageable parts, based on iterative problem analyses with local and national actors. It is posited that these functionalities must be present in the national framework and understood and implemented at decentralised levels.In the third phase, the framework was applied using mixed methods participatory action-research to assess drinking water service delivery in Uganda using the case of Kabarole District. The research was carried out with a nationally registered NGO (IRC) and a learning alliance of stakeholders working in support of the Government of Uganda's objective to provide universal access to basic water by 2030, and to extend piped water to all households by 2040. Qualitative policy assessments, a review of statements from national level officials and the results from a quantitative analysis of the drinking water services in Kabarole in 2017 and 2019 were used to identify emerging trends in service delivery. Service delivery models present in Kabarole were self-supply, community management, and two different variants of a public utility model. Uganda has undergone policy reforms in recent years and is in the early stages of a transition to professionalized utility water supply systems. The research investigated the social learning of stakeholders in the learning alliance. The multi-level perspective for socio-technical systems transitions was used to analyse bottom-up and top-down innovation in Uganda. A participatory scenario development process made use of GIS maps, interviews, workshops and focus group meetings to identify the most important and uncertain factors that may influence progress toward the 2030 targets. The most likely scenario was identified, and several strategies were developed to adapt to anticipated changes while pursuing the goal of universal services. The final phase of research was a critical reflection on the WASH systems framework and assessment methodology. A public systems approach to analysis and planning was found to be useful for structuring collaborative work in a complex environment. The use of nine subsystems to define the larger system helped to reduce the complexity and aid in analysis. Participatory assessment of these subsystems was effective in helping local, national, and international actors to establish a more common understanding of the problem and to develop future visions for public service delivery"--

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Network Industries written by Matthias Finger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation. With vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries, the time has come for a critical over-arching assessment of this entire industry in order to provide a platform of understanding to aid future research and practice. This comprehensive resource provides an orientation for academics, policy makers and managers as to the main economic, regulatory and commercial challenges in the network industries. The book is split into sections covering market, policy, regulation, management perspectives, whilst all of the key network industries are covered, including energy, transport, water and telecommunications. Overseen by world-class Editors and experts in the field, this inter-disciplinary resource is essential reading for students and researchers in international business, industrial economics and the industries.

Download or read book City Wide Sanitation The Urban Sustainability Challenge written by Christoph Lüthi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Download or read book Sustainable Sanitation in Cities a Framework to Action written by Christoph L. Thi and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The demands of sustainable development require us to rethink the current approach towards the way in which we dispose of waste. Considerable progress is being made in the areas of solid waste recycling and renewable energy production but the sustainable management of human waste is an area that is still in its infancy. However, the need for sustainable sanitation is becoming critical due to the need to safeguard our fresh water sources from contamination, recycle valuable nutrients contained in excreta for food production, and conserve energy.In this book, the authors seek to define what sustainable sanitation means in the urban context and how this can be achieved within the constraints and complexities of the urban environment. The authors redefine the relationship between sanitary engineering and urban planning and thus contribute to the ongoing debate on urban sustainability. The book is dedicated to innovative approaches to sanitation and illustrates what putting sustainable sanitation into action means in practice.

Download or read book Sustainable sanitation how can we improve sanitation systems in the global south written by Shikun Cheng and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Requirements Analysis of Developing Communities Sanitation Management written by Aldy K Mardikanto and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is 2.6 billion of world s citizens lack basic sanitation (WHO-UNICEF, 2006). The target of Millennium Development Goals to halve the number by 2015 faces tough challenges and requires a robust framework as a strategy to improve the condition. Often the technologies are incorrectly chosen; they can not meet community s capacities and consequently can not provide sustainable access to water and sanitation. The research presented in this thesis approaches the problem from technology point of view, under the Capacity Factor Analysis framework developed by Louis, et al. and analyzes the requirements of technology options in sanitation services management which include black water and municipal solid waste management to develop the benchmark in technology assessment. The assessment rates technology options and yield Technology Requirement Level of each technology options which will be used in choosing the appropriate technology based on the community capacity level. As part of the framework, this thesis is intended to help decision makers choosing the appropriate technology for developing community. A case study in Cimahi, Indonesia is presented as the framework s application.

Download or read book Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge written by Bas van Vliet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE project (working on sustainable urban infrastructures in cities of the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa), the DESAR project (research and pilot projects in Decentralized Sanitation and Reuse, the Netherlands), and among others within NETSSAF (large scale implementation of sanitation in Africa), and EcoSan networks. The major milestone for this book to emerge was however the IWA Sanitation Challenge Conference of May 2008 in Wageningen, the Netherlands where all the authors of this book presented their papers. The conference was organized by a consortium of sanitation specialists at Wageningen University’s Environmental Policy Group (the editors) and the s- department of Environmental Technology, LeAF (Lettinga Associates Foundation) and Wetsus (Center of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology in the Netherlands). It was a unique event as it enabled a truly multi-disciplinary approach in discussing Sanitation Challenges in North and South with social and political scientists, natural scientists, environmental engineers and practitioners in one s- entific conference. This volume presents a selection of the social scientific insights and research results presented at the Sanitation Challenge Conference: the concepts, decisi- making support tools and the perspectives from farmers and consumers towards sanitation innovation.

Download or read book Sustainability Management Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries written by Mohd Fadhil Md Din and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries emphasizes the research of sustainability management and strategies in developing countries providing information to the public, researchers, planners, and stakeholders dealing with sustainability management and strategies, particularly for developing and emerging economic countries.

Download or read book Handbook Of Sustainability Management written by Christian N Madu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is about the effective management of nonrenewable and nonreplenishable natural resources. These resources are limited and critical to maintaining ecological balance. A collective effort is required to balance our socio-economic needs with environmental needs. This could be achieved by re-evaluating policies and actions as to how they affect the environment. Sustainability requires changes in traditional practices of doing things and refocusing ourselves to the needs of the earth. This handbook explores the role of sustainability in achieving social development, environmental protection, and economic development. These three areas constitute what is referred to as the triple bottom line (TBL). Sustainability management may help organizations and their global supply networks to re-evaluate their policies, processes, programs, and projects in terms of triple bottom line. Sustainability helps to facilitate planning, implementing, reviewing, and improving an organization's actions and operations to meet ecological goals.

Download or read book When Technology Fails written by Alicia (Lia) Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to a close, 783 million people still lack access to improved water (Onda et al., 2012). An estimated 30 - 40% of development efforts to improve access to water still fail (are broken and/or unused) (Lockwood et al., 2010), which is similar to rates found 40 years ago (Imboden, 1977). While there have been increasing efforts to address this issue - especially the financial and technical aspects, a review of recent sustainability frameworks in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector reveal that there is a need for better understanding how to plan for and address the social aspects of sustainability in delivering rural water services. The purpose is to explore different strategies used by leaders in the WASH sector to deliver socially sustainable safe drinking water in low income countries. The goal is to provide insights based on specific examples and participant experiences on ways to increase the social sustainability of services: a) in the bigger picture of international aid effectiveness, and b) with a specific focus on creating effective motivation infrastructure. Twenty-two key informants were purposively selected and interviewed for an average of one hour and fifteen minutes, during which they were asked to describe in detail their organization's approach to sustainability along with a specific example of an effort that failed and one that succeeded. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using qualitative analysis and ©NVivo10 software. Results: Eight main themes emerged which were consistent across what participants believed worked and did not work and found worked and did not work. Socially sustainable efforts create effective incentives, build local capacity, respect local stakeholders priorities and preferences, learn before, after and throughout the process, prevent failure and protect investment, ensure on-going monitoring and maintenance, identify and avoid assumptions, and focus on what people want rather than need. Given the variability of local context and culture, it is not helpful and may not be possible to create a fixed list of actions that accomplish the themes listed above. However, learning from themes that emerged provides valuable insights into how we might more consistently include mechanisms that improve sustainability by recognizing the importance of social versus technical challenges. Examining how these themes align with the bigger picture of development, we find that 85% of the themes fit into one of the five categories of commitments made in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness (2005); but a lack of consistent, wide-scale monitoring in the WASH sector makes it difficult to tell to what extent each of these international commitments have been met. Looking at how these themes align with a specific focus - motivation as described in Maslow's Theory of Motivation (1943), we find that strategies participants believe to be effective align more with higher level needs such as self-actualization (n=105), self-esteem (n=88), and safety and security (n=110) compared to physiological (n=8). More rigorous, collaborative research is needed to better document the definitions, combinations, and contexts in which strategies work and do not work. There is no magic bullet that will guarantee sustainability 100% of the time, but a more accurate understanding of social challenges and barriers like human motivation provide us with better tools from which to make evidenced based decisions in addressing a missing area of sustainability.

Download or read book Wami basin a situation analysis written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Water security and sustainable development in an uncertain world written by Miguel R. Peña and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ethiopia Health Extension Program written by Huihui Wang and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a low-income country, Ethiopia has made impressive progress in improving health outcomes. This report examines how Ethiopia s Health Extension Program (HEP) has contributed to the country s move toward Univeral Health Coverage (UHC), and to shed light on how other countries may learn from Ethiopia s experiences of HEP when designing their own path to UHC. HEP is one of the government s UHC strategies introduced in a context of limited resources and low coverage of essential health services. The key aspects of the program include the capacity building and mobilization of more than 30, 000 Health Extension Workers (HEWs) targeting more than 12 million model families, and the mobilization of health development army ? to support the community-based health system. Using the HEP-UHC conceptual model and data from Demographic and Health Surveys, the study examines how the HEP has contributed to the country s move toward UHC. During the period that the HEP has been implemented, the country has experienced significant improvements in many dimensions: in terms of socioeconomic, psychological, behavioral, and biological dimensions of the beneficiaries; and in terms of the coverage of health care services. The study finds an accelerated rate of improvements among the rural, less-educated, and the poor population, which is leading to an overall reduction in equity gaps and improvements in the equity indicators including the concentration indices - that suggest a more equitable distribution of resources and health outcomes. The HEP in Ethiopia has demonstrated that an institutionalized community approach is effective in helping a country make progress toward UHC. The elements of success in the HEP include the emphasis on community mobilization which identifies community priorities, engages and empowers community members, and supports their ability to solve local problems. The other aspect of HEP is the emphasis on institutionalization of the activities, which addresses the sustainability of community programs through high level of political commitment, and effective coordination of national policies and leveraging of support from partners. These findings may offer useful lessons for other low income countries facing similar challenges in developing and implementing a sustainable UHC strategy.

Download or read book Sustainable Development Strategies written by Stephen Bass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national or local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development. Whilst the focus is on integrated strategies for sustainable development, the approaches and methods covered are equally relevant to poverty reduction, environmental and sectoral strategies, programme development and review. Agenda 21 called for all countries to develop sustainable development strategies. For such strategies to be effective there needs to be a real commitment. In every country, government at all levels, the private sector, and civil society, must work together in a true partnership, in transparent ways which enable genuine stakeholder participation. The necessary mechanisms and processes need to be coordinated to enable continuous learning and improvement. This resource book provides flexible, non-prescriptive guidance on how to develop, assess and implement national sustainable development strategies. It sets out principles and ideas on process and methods, and suggests how these can be used. It is based on an analysis of past and current practice, drawing directly from experience in both developed and developing countries. Following a discussion of the nature and challenges of sustainable development and the need for strategic responses to them, the heart of the book covers the main tasks in strategy processes. Individual chapters offer a rich range of guidance, ideas and case studies.

Download or read book Managing Water Resources in Large River Basins written by William Young and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management of water resources in large rivers basins typically differs in important ways from management in smaller basins. While in smaller basins the focus of water resources management may be on project implementation, irrigation and drainage management, water use efficiency and flood operations; in larger basins, because of the greater complexity and competing interests, there is often a greater need for long-term strategic river basin planning across sectors and jurisdictions, and considering social, environmental, and economic outcomes. This puts a focus on sustainable development, including consumptive water use and non-consumptive water uses, such as inland navigation and hydropower. It also requires the consideration of hard or technical issues—data, modeling, infrastructure—as well as soft issues of governance, including legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and political economy. Rapidly evolving technologies could play a significant role in managing large basins. This Special Issue of Water traverses these hard and soft aspects of managing water resources in large river basins through a series of diverse case studies from across the globe that demonstrate recent advances in both technical and governance innovations in river basin management.