1. Planning and Implementation of Sustainable Sanitation in Peri/Semi-Urban Settings A Need for Development of Existing Tools?

2. About CREPA and advocacy works
Regional Centre for low cost Water Supply and Sanitation

3. Ecosan_EU project facing urban realities
Planning for Ecological Sanitation program for low income countries : Ouagadougou project
Dr Amah KLUTSE

4. CREPA Guinée Conakry Bénin Mali Burundi Mauritanie Burkina Faso Niger
Guinée Bissau
Guinée Conakry
Rwanda
Mali
Mauritanie
Togo
Tchad
Sénégal
Niger
Bénin
Burundi
Burkina Faso
Cameroun
Centrafrique
Côte d’Ivoire
Gabon
Congo

5. CREPA ECOSAN Program mostly in rural municipalities/villages

6. ECOSAN in urban setting = big challenge

7. Ecosan Project in peri-urban and urban area
Establish an effective chain for collection, transport, treatment and reuse

8. First big urban ECOSAN project in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
4 sectors targeted

9. Ecosan EU project : Joint initiative for urban area
Target groups: Households, Farmers, Artisans, Associations, private sectors, in 4 areas in Ouagadougou (sector 17, 19, 27, 30)
Partenaires techniques: CREPA, GTZ, ONEA.
Involvement of the municipalities in the implementation phase.
Duration: 3 years (2006 – 2009)
Co-financed by: EU, CREPA and GTZ
Budget: euros

10. Objectives and main activities
Ecosan_UE project
Objectives and main activities
people understand ECOSAN
Provide toilets facilities to the households and some public sites (1000 toilets);
Put in place appropriate system that allows excreta collection /transport and safe reuse
Support and promote the involvement of the local private sector in furnishing the infrastructure and if necessary the logistic services required by the system.
Carry out awareness and lobby work to create an enabling environment for ecological sanitation and to ensure its inclusion in legislation ;

11. The project in action What so far?… Challenges
Provide toilets facilities to the households;
Put in place appropriate system that allows excreta collection /transport and safe reuse
How to ensure that we are doing sustainable sanitation…
not only to provide toilets but a whole sanitation system that ends up with the reuse…
System which respond to the priorities and the need of the target group…
Challenges

12. The project in action What so far?… Challenges
How to involve local communities to take over the services provision: authorities are busy to do politic?
Which PPP options are adequate to better involve local private sector?
How to create business in sanitation?
Challenges
Support and promote the involvement of the local private sector in furnishing the infrastructure and if necessary the logistic services required by the system.

13. The project in action What so far?… Challenges
Carry out awareness and lobby work to create an enabling environment for ecological sanitation and to ensure its inclusion in legislation ;
How to make people (authorities and population) know what we are talking about?
How to bring them to our school, in our world?
How to involve them in discussion about this forgotten sanitation issue?
How to help politician making right decisions about the issue?
Challenges

14. The project in action
The process …

15. Implementation approach
Projet ecosan_UE
Implementation approach
Involve targets groups and authorities …
HCES approach

16. Coordination du Projet
Actions de mise en œuvre du projet.
Compte Rendu
Equipe de Projet
CREPA / GTZ / ONEA
Coordination du Projet
Bailleur de fonds
Compte rendu
Commission Européenne
Membres
DG CREPA
Représentant GTZ
DG ONEA
Mairie ville de Ouagadougou
AMBF
DG de l’Urbanisme
DG des Services d’Hygiène
DG de l’Agriculture
D. Assainissement et Prévention des pollution et nuisances.
DGAEP
DG de la Production Végétale
DGRE/DAEPA
Résultats du projet
Grandes orientations/ Prise en compte des résultats du projet dans les stratégies nationales.
Comité de pilotage
Actions du projet
Comité d’Orientation
Comités Directeurs (CD)
Feedback
Actions d’accompagnement suivi et alliances d’apprentissage.
CD1 R1
CD2 R2
CD3 R3
CD4 R4
Maries d’arrondissements
Repésentants des associations
Services déconcentrés au niveau local
Pouvoirs locaux
Hommes relais (R)
Maries d’arrondiss.
Collaboration
Mise en œuvre des Actions
Bénéficiaires des actions (Ménages, Maraîchers, Artisans, PME)
Collaboration dans la mise œuvre des actions
Associations/Groupements des Femmes, Maraîchers, Artisans, PME,…
Appui à la mise en œuvre des actions
Interaction et feedback
Influence de la population

17. The project in action
Components of local project teams…

18. First year: preparatory activities
Contact with local authorities and administrative in charge of sanitation ( individual meetings or at community level,)
Information to the population , demand formulation (presentation of the project, the process, and expectations)
Dialogue meeting (with decision makers, etc)

19. First year: preparatory activities
Baseline study (+ validation in sectors)
Strategic ECOSAN plan for the four sectors (+ validation in sector)
Criteria for choice of the beneficiaries and conditions to have acces to facilities

20. The project in action Train the local star to reach the targets groups
Identify local star (singers, awareness raising actors,…) and train them to convey the messages to the population and project target groups…

21. The project in action
Public awareness putting local authorities in front..
Use the local formal ways of communication to inform the population about the sanitation problems and about the project approach and its planning processes …

22. The project in action
Informing authorities and attributing them roles…
Meetings with relevant authorities at their offices and at the municipal council, were the successful to convince them about the new sanitation approach and the project planning processes…

23. The project in action
Developing capacities – empowering actors…

24. The project in action
Organize an official launchevent for strong commitment
Strong speeches from authorities at the Top can ensure the targets groups at the Bottom.

25. The project in action
Bringing authorities and targets groups together for dialogue project piloting committee...

26. The project in action
Collect reliable base line data for sustainable actions…

27. The project in action
Validation and identification of priorities…

28. The project in action
Participatory ECOSAN strategic plan development…

29. Second year: implement the system

30. Construction of infrastructures
Capacity building of stakeholders
Mobilization of beneficiaries contribution
Construction and quality assurance

31. Training of local masons
Etats des lieux des activités

32. Etats des lieux des activités

33. Demand for infrastructures
Motivation:
Permanent
Cheaper ( $ compared to $ for VIP/pour flush promoted by ONEA)
Less problems during rainy period with pits filling up
For urban farmers, also reuse appeals
Problem: POOR people very little money (especially with price-hikes)

34. Double vault toilet
(cement bricks or adobe for superstructure)

35. Single vault toilet inside house or in garden

36. Cheaper model 1:
Double vault toilet
(all in adobe bricks)

37. Cheaper model 2:
Single vault toilet adobe superstructure

38. Single vault toilet
Storage of faeces bag on site

39. Capacity building of private enterprises
training of local contractor to construct the public Ecosan toilets and the site of sanitatization
Séance des présentations
Visite guidée

40. The project in action
Inauguration of 1st ecosan toilets in Ouagadougou...

41. Now around 350 household toilets (since december 2007)
Public toilets (loop closed on site):
Demo-toilets in the garden of the three city halls
Toilets in Ouaga prison
Toiltes in Ouaga forest reserve
Toilets in one school/sector under way

42. The project in action
Collection/treatment/delivery…

43. The project in action
High decentralization of the services provision to allow local private sector promotion…

44. The project in action
Targets groups choices/ which materials…

45. Training of farmers and vegetable sellers

46. MACO, Kit de matériel agricole remis
Support and capacity building to farmers
MACO, Kit de matériel agricole remis

47. Participative assessment : case of courgette in sector 17 :

48. Participatory assessment : case of “choux” and onion in sector 19

49. Participatory assessment : case of tomato and cucumber in sector 30

50. Participatory assessment : case of melon in sector 30

51. Compaoré L. Frédéric, sector 30

52. Planning in the project
Many stakeholders from different institutions involved….
First year: Translate the project document to concrete activities - project coordinator planned and brought together multi skilled teams for each activity to be carried out (retreats important to plan baseline study and then strategic plan)
Second year: Participative planning (1 week retreat) with all stakeholders and formation of 7 task-teams

53. Planning in the project
Teams second year
Social aspects/interactions with households
Technical
Private sector/CBO
Agro
Risk
Communication
Institution/coordination

54. Planning confronts reality…
Price hike…
Project parallell wih ONEA on-site program (confrontation between different facilitators)
Dealing with hidden interests of local authorities…

55. Some hot points to deal with year three….
Partnership between municipality and the private sector…
Economic sustainability of the collection/treatment system?
Continuous sensitization … but who will support the cost after the project?
Institutional set-up for sustainability
Role of the politicians (municipalities leaders, team leaders, etc, …..
Legal framework
Subsidies issues/integration of ECOSAN into ONEA’s sanitation program

56. Thanks for your attention