Share research - Urban Sanitation

Opportunities for progress - experiences from sanitation scenario planning in small towns, Tanzania

shareadmin — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:39:19 +0000

This learning document explores what WaterAid have learnt from sanitation scenario planning in Babati, Tanzania - where their Cities of Tomorrow project was conducted.

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Building partnership for participatory sanitation and hygiene planning: Lessons and experience from Tanzania

shareadmin — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:35:42 +0000

This meeting paper was written by Beale et al. for the 41st WEDC International Conference in Kenya in 2018. It gives an overview of the SHARE project, Cities of Tomorrow, which details townwide sanitation planning for the rapidly urbanising Tanzanian town, Babati. The Cities of Tomorrow research project is using participatory approaches to work with stakeholders in Babati to build the evidence needed to help develop and inform a townwide sanitation and hygiene plan and to feed into the development of the Babati spatial master plan. This paper describes some of the lessons learned through the development of the partnership between government, academic and non-governmental institutions working together on this project.

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San-Dem community dissemination brief

shareadmin — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:15:31 +0000

This leaflet was shared with research participants and interested members of the community at a local event to disseminate the findings of the San-Dem project which was carried out in Bauleni compound in Lusaka, Zambia.

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Policy brief: Changing urban sanitation infrastructure through behaviour change interventions in Lusaka, Zambia

shareadmin — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:00:15 +0000

This policy brief details how CIDRZ's San-Dem project used behaviour centred design (BCD) to improve sanitation quality in an informal urban settlement in Lusaka, Zambia. The brief gives recommendations on next steps for scaling up the San-Dem project nationally and globally.

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What Proportion Counts? Disaggregating Access to Safely Managed Sanitation in an Emerging Town in Tanzania

shareadmin — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:42:20 +0000

This paper by Komakech et al. was published in 2019 in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The paper discusses the inconsistency in sanitation data generated by urban authorities and proposes a simple approach for collecting reliable and verifiable information on access to safely managed sanitation. The work is based on a study conducted in Babati Town Council in Tanzania. Using a smartphone-based survey tool, city health officers were trained to map 17,383 housing units in the town. A housing unit may comprise of two or more households. The findings show that 5% practice open defecation, while 82% of the housing units have some form of sanitation. Despite the extensive coverage, only 31% of the fecal sludge generated is safely contained, while 64% is not. This study demonstrates the possibility of using simple survey tools to collect reliable data for monitoring progress towards safely managed sanitation in the towns of global South.

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The use of research in participatory planning of sanitation and hygiene: lessons from Babati, Tanzania

shareadmin — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:32:47 +0000

This policy brief captures learnings from the use of research in participatory sanitation planning, using Babati town in Tanzania as an example. The document was written by WaterAid and the authors are: Priya Sippy, Joseph Banzi, Abel Dugange, Om Prasad Gautam, Mbaye Mbeguere and Kyla Smith.

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Water-Handling Patterns and Associated Microbial Profiles in relation to Hygiene in Babati Town, Tanzania

shareadmin — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:34:51 +0000

This paper was published by Tesha et al. (2019) in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health. The paper explores water-handling patterns and associated microbial profiles related to hygiene in Babati, Tanzania. This is a crucial area of research due to the rapidly urbanising centres in Tanzania. This often means that water supply infrastructure lags behind, affecting water availability and accessibility. Three water-handling chains/patterns were determined and the study found that people in Babati tended to rely on these chains equally. The most contaminated water was the untreated-source-straight-to-households chain. This research may inform the development of polices in the areas of household hygiene education, drinking water treatment, and water supply planning in urbanized towns in Tanzania and other developing countries.

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Urban sanitation and hygiene Story of Change - January 2019 update

shareadmin — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 12:44:20 +0000

Stories of Change investigate how inputs have contributed to achieving specific outcomes through pathways of expected or unexpected change. This Story of Change, updated in January 2019, focuses on SHARE’s contribution to research and policy and practice change related to urban sanitation and hygiene.

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Understanding demand for higher quality sanitation in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia through stated and revealed preference analysis

shareadmin — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:05:37 +0000

In this paper, published in Social Science & Medicine, Tidwell et al. (2019) discuss the role of consumer demand in increasing peri-urban sanitation quality for tenants using shared sanitation. The authors analysed data on existing housing markets using the Hedonistic Pricing Method (HPM) to capture the percentage of rent attributable to sanitation quality. They also conducted discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to obtain willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for specific sanitation components and explored the implications this had on investment return for landlords making sanitation improvements. The study found that 18% of rental prices were attributed to sanitation and the tenants were willing to pay $2.20 more rent per month for flushing toilets on plots with running water and $3.39 more per month for solid toilet doors. Solid doors and flushing toilets had higher rent increase to cost ratios than other ways landlords commonly invested in their plots. Interventions leveraging landlords' profit motives could lead to significant improvements in peri-urban sanitation quality, reduced diarrheal disease transmission, and increased well-being without subsidies or infrastructure investments by government or NGOs.

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Using a theory-driven creative process to design a peri-urban on-site sanitation quality improvement intervention

shareadmin — Fri, 31 May 2019 15:02:54 +0000

Tidwell et al.’s (2019) paper, published in BMC Public Health, discusses the authors’ experiences of using the Behaviour Centered Design (BCD) framework to design a sanitation quality improvement behaviour change intervention for a peri-urban site in Lusaka, Zambia. The intervention aimed to encourage landlords to improve their toilets by making them more accessible, desirable, hygienic and sustainable. Use of the BCD model resulted in a theory-driven, creative and multi-faceted intervention. This work advances applied behavioural science, will be able to be adapted to improve on-site sanitation in other settings and will contribute to the iterative development of the BCD model.

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