Literature Review: Small-Scale Private Sector and CBO Participation in Human Excreta Management in Latin America

Year of publication: 2004

The review, entitled Small-Scale Private Sector and CBO Participation in Human Excreta Management in Latin America: Are They Making a Difference? specifically examines the effective involvement of SSIPs and CBOs, in other words it sets out to answer the question ‘Are they making a difference regarding:

• Coverage – in construction, provision of material, selling parts,
• Management – as operators of facilities, cleaning services, suction truckers or in sludge disposal and treatment, and
• Productive use of human excreta and sludge – for agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture, small scale irrigation?

A search for case material in the existing literature available was undertaken in order to answer the question of whether they are making a difference. Initially, documents in Portuguese and Spanish were the main focus of attention. Gradually though, information in English from international sources was also investigated.

The information gathered and the analysis undertaken are presented in accordance with three main territorial areas of intervention – peri-urban, small towns and rural areas – and distinguishing, in each one of these areas, the main actors and the role they are playing in human waste issues. The overall concern was to gain a general overview of the sanitation situation for the Latin American region.

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