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Making  a  SPLASH!    Newsletter  19  –  December  2012        News  from  SPLASH  and  the  SPLASH  Sanitation  Research  Programme  

1. SPLASH  Sanitation  Research  Programme  project  updates  2. A  further  reminder  about  SPLASH  online  resources  

Season’s  Greetings!  In  this  December  newsletter,  we  would  like  to  once  again  thank  you  for  your  continued  interest  in  and  support  for  the  SPLASH  project,  which  continues  in  the  form  of  the  SPLASH  Sanitation  Research  Programme.  We  would  like  to  wish  you  all  the  very  best  for  this  festive  season,  and  a  very  happy  new  year.  We  look  forward  to  a  productive  year  ahead  in  2013!    1.  SPLASH  Sanitation  Research  Programme  project  updates  This  newsletter  highlights  three  of  the  five  SPLASH  Sanitation  Research  Projects,  U-‐ACT,  CLASS-‐A  and  3K-‐San.  For  further  information  about  all  the  projects  please  go  to    http://splash-‐era.net/san_res.php      U-‐ACT:  Urban  Affordable  Clean  Toilets      Since  the  last  SPLASH  newsletter  in  September,  the  U-‐ACT  project  has  finalized  the  construction  of  156  VIP  latrines,  which  directly  benefit  at  least  1,500  poor  slum  dwellers  in  Kampala.    In  addition,  we  are  happy  to  announce  our  second  Policy  Brief  “When  is  shared  sanitation  improved  sanitation?”  which  analyses  the  relationship  between  toilet  user  numbers  and  hygienic  conditions.  The  Policy  Brief  draws  some  interesting  lessons  for  the  on-‐going  debate  on  shared  toilet  facilities  in  crowded  urban  contexts.  You  can  download  the  paper  here:  http://splash-‐era.net/downloads/SRP_U-‐ACT_Policy_Brief2.pdf      Additionally,  the  PhD  student  in  Sociology  from  Makerere  University  has  started  his  third  research  exchange  visit  at  ETH  Zurich  in  early  November  and  will  stay  until  the  end  of  December.  For  more  information  and  U-‐ACT  project  documents,  please  visit  http://www.nadel.ethz.ch/forschung/u-‐act  or  

contact  Isabel  Günther  isabel.guenther@nadel.ethz.ch    

U-‐ACT  VIP  latrine  next  to  household’s  old  latrine  Photo:  Alexandra  C.  Horst  

   CLASS-‐A:  Sustainable  and  resilient  sanitation  service  chains  in  Maputo  province,  Mozambique  –  action  research  and  piloting  for  benefit  of  the  urban  poor  An  update  on  progress  to  date  begins  with  the  development  of  the  Rapid  Participatory  Sanitation  Systems  Assessment  (RPSSA)  methodology  by  the  University  College  London  and  other  research  partners  which  forms  the  basis  for  environmental  health  risk  assessment  to  be  carried  out  by  local  stakeholders  and  city  level  actors.  The  proposed  framework  was  presented  at  a  side  event  at  the  Conference  on  Water  and  Health  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina  at  the  end  of  October  2012  on  the  Application  of  Environmental  Health  Risk  Assessment  for  Sanitation  Safety  Planning.    The  workshop  

highlighted  that  there  is  potential  to  use  a  rapid,  participatory  process  for  macro-‐level  city  sanitation  planning,  whereas  a  more  detailed  assessment  is  required  for  design  and  monitoring  of  sanitation  improvements  for  specific  areas  within  cities.      In  addition,  a  training  module  based  on  the  RPSSA  methodology  was  trialled  at  a  pre-‐conference  workshop  on  Managing  Sources  of  Faecal  contamination  of  Water  Supply  Systems  through  Sanitation  Safety  Planning  at  the  IWA  Water  Safety  Planning  conference  in  Kampala  in  November  2012.    The  event,  which  was  supported  by  the  involvement  of  Dr  Katrina  Charles  from  the  University  of  Surrey  (from  the  3K-‐San  research  project  also  funded  by  SPLASH)  and  Professor  Huw  Taylor  from  the  University  of  Brighton,  provided  participants  with  the  opportunity  to  learn  how  risk  assessment  as  applied  to  sanitation  systems  can  be  used  to  quantify  and  understand  risks  associated  with  faecal  pollution  in  the  sanitation  chain  and  how  this  can  be  used  to  identify  communities  that  are  highest  risk.        The  risk  assessment  framework  is  currently  being  piloted  in  Maxaquene-‐A  ,  an  area  where  Water  and  Sanitation  for  the  Urban  Poor  (WSUP)  are  working,  and  subsequently  planned  for  application  in  other  neighbourhoods  of  Maputo  in  the  first  quarter  of  2013.    Class-‐A  has  collated  data  from  various  sources  about  sanitation  in  Maxaquene-‐A  and  have  prepared  a  report  that  documents  their  findings.    

Hugo  and  his  friends  play  near  to  a  drainage  for  waste  water  from  a  Xipamanine  hospital  Photo:  Patricilio  Mucavele  

 Based  on  this  experience,  IWA  is  in  discussion  with  WHO  about  the  integration  of  the  framework  into  the  formulation  of  the  Sanitation  Safety  Planning  

methodology  using  the  Maputo  experience  as  an  example  to  illustrate  the  methodology,  which  is  to  be  applied  in  five  cities  as  part  of  a  CGIAR  project  on  Resource  Recovery  and  Reuse  managed  by  the  International  Water  Management  Institute.    For  further  information  please  see    http://splash-‐era.net/san_res.php    or  contact  Jonathan  Parkinson  Jonathan.Parkinson@iwahq.org        3KSan:  Catalysing  self-‐sustaining  sanitation  chains  in  informal  settlements  In  October,  our  three  students  came  over  to  the  University  of  Surrey,  UK,  for  a  week  of  workshops.  The  week  focused  on  sharing  experiences  from  the  household  surveys,  which  had  just  been  completed;  mapping  of  the  roles  of  stakeholders  in  the  sanitation  supply  chain  in  each  of  the  three  cities;  and  discussing  the  communications  strategy.  Our  exchanges  helped  all  the  students  and  researchers  get  a  better  understanding  of  the  different  challenges  to  achieving  sustainable  sanitation:  the  space  limitations  in  some  settlements  in  Kampala,  the  range  of  waste  removal  services  ranging  from  almost  none  in  Kigali  to  a  cooperative  of  exhausters  with  trucks  in  Kampala,  the  different  attitudes  to  open  defecation  such  as  the  cultural  acceptance  of  it  in  Kisumu.    A  big  congratulations  to  Aime  and  Kenan  who  completed  their  confirmation  vivas  for  their  PhDs  –  and  thank  you  to  Dr.  Luiza  Campos  from  University  College  London  (a  research  partner  on  the  CLASS-‐A  project)  for  examining  the  students.    Aime  Tsinda  has  also  published  his  diagnostic  report  for  Kigali,  after  revising  it  based  on  the  feedback  from  stakeholders,  on  the  IPAR  website  (also  available  through  the  3KSan  website).  We  are  looking  forward  to  meeting  again  in  January  for  our  next  project  meeting.  For  more  information,  including  videos,  see  http://www.3ksan.org/.  For  further  information,  please  contact  Steve  Pedley  S.Pedley@surrey.ac.uk  

Kenan  Okurut,  Jane  Moraa  Adogo  and  Prof  Rosalind  Malcolm  listening  to  Aime  Tsinda  

2.  A  further  reminder  about  SPLASH  online  resources  Finally  a  quick  reminder  about  the  wide  range  of  resources  available  for  all  to  use  on  the  SPLASH  website.  There  is  now  an  easier  way  to  search  for  and  find  these  using  the  new  SPLASH  toolkit  at  http://www.splash-‐era.net/toolkit/.  This  brings  together  all  the  various  resources  produced  by  the  project.  These  have  been  categorised  in  a  number  of  ways  to  make  searching  easier,  that  is,  by  the  type  of  FORMAT  (e.g.  newsletter,  factsheet),  by  the  type  of  USER  you  are  (the  information  has  been  assessed  for  its  potential  usefulness  for  each  user  group),  by  CONTENT  areas,  and  lastly  you  can  search  for  information  with  relevance  to  a  particular  REGION.  Of  course  it  is  possible  to  combine  any  or  all  of  these  categories  while  searching.      Also  available  is  the  free  SPLASH  Research  Management  Course.  This  is  intended  as  resource  

material  for  use  by  universities  and  research  institutes  that  wish  to  run  courses  on  research  management  for  water  for  development.  However,  the  course  is  generic  in  its  approach  and  may  be  applicable  to  non-‐water  sectors,  too.  The  resource  materials  provide  an  entry  point  for  preparing  a  course  on  research  management.      The  course  material  units  are  available  to  anyone  interested  as  a  free  download  from  the  SPLASH  web  page:  http://www.splash-‐era.net/res-‐man_course.php    The  complete  course  book  is  available  at  http://www.splash-‐era.net/downloads/RM/Research_Management_book.pdf      Please  contact  course  instructors  Frank  Odhiambo  (f.o.odhiambo@lboro.ac.uk)  of  WEDC,  Loughborough  University  or  Peter  Furu  (pfu@life.ku.dk)  of  the  University  of  Copenhagen  (representing  the  Danish  Water  Forum)  for  more  information.

 

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