WASPA: Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation, Asia
The WASPA (Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation) programme consists of pilots in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The programme will run for 3 years and be completed in December 2008. Relevant information can be found in this folder.
Strengthening Capacities for Planning of Sanitation and Wastewater Use: Experiences from two cities in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
03 Feb 10
This document provides an overview of the experiences of the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) project in Asia, carried out in the towns of Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Kurunegala in Sri Lanka. It shows that integrated, joint planning is important for addressing complex problems that span sectoral, administrative and social divides and that, ultimately, the high transaction costs are justified.
Read more or download OP44_WASPA_2010.pdf (969 kB)
WASPA: What happened in 2008?
10 Aug 09
The unregulated use of wastewater poses serious risks to human health and the environment. The WASPA Asia project website highlights several activities that were undertaken in 2008 to provide simple solutions to wastewater and sanitation management. Stakeholders' awareness of wastewater issues and their ability to plan jointly, were also strengthened through this process.
Guidance notes WASPA Learning Alliances
12 Mar 09
Four guidance notes were prepared by IRC to support facilitation of the Learning Alliance and Participatory Planning Process in WASPA Asia. These notes refer to issues which were specific to the project. However, stakeholder involvement through the Learning Alliance process and through Participatory Action Planning is relevant for other projects as well. For each project, relevant adaptations to the methodology should be made.
Documenting field stories
To support learning from the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation (WASPA) project, the teams in Rajshahi (Bangladesh) and Kurunegala (Sri Lanka) have been documenting changes in stakeholders’ awareness and understanding as well as challenges and lessons learned.
The project team used process monitoring and process documentation to try to capture the changes that were taking place among stakeholders and to get a better understanding of what hindered or enabled change in the project. Reflecting on changes also supported learning with the Learning Alliance.
WASPA publications
27 Nov 08
During the course of the project, WASPA has produced several publications including promotional materials, assessments – such as stakeholder analysis, sanitation assessment, water quality monitoring, agricultural survey and industry mapping , workshop reports and cleaner production guidelines. They can be found on the WASPA Asia website: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WASPA/publications.htm
The findings from the assessments have not only provided a baseline against which to monitor the impact of the project but also were the starting point for the development of Participatory Action Plans (PAPs) together with key stakeholders in both towns.
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Documenting lessons on WASPA learning alliances
18 Jul 08
Since 2005 the Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation in Asia (WASPA Asia) Project has piloted learning alliances for collaboration on solutions to improve wastewater handling, preventing waste from reaching fields and managing wastewater for agricultural production.
To support learning from the project, WASPA has applied process monitoring and process documentation. In Rajshahi and Kurunegala, the teams have written ‘change stories’ about different stakeholders to enable reflection on the project approach and the stories behind successes and difficulties working in a multi-stakeholder learning mode. Several stories were developed and updated regularly.
The final change stories are now online . They provide an illustration of the process and some lessons for WASPA about what worked, what some of the challenges where, who benefited and how stakeholders felt about the project.
2WASPA_Bangl_PD_lessons_LA_18_12_08_CdS_all_changes.pdf (511 kB)
WASPA Asia website
08 Jun 06
Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation in Asia (WASPA Asia) seeks to improve environmental sanitation and hygiene and promote the productive and safe use of wastewater in agriculture in Rajshahi City, Bangladesh and Kurunegala, Sri Lanka. This is done in a learning alliance with various stakeholders, including community groups, farmers, small industries and local authorities.
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