Sanitation in rapidly growing towns
Together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, IRC will be hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around the crucial topic of sanitation in rapidly growing towns in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held in Lusaka, Zambia, will explore proactive, tangible ways to deal with pressing sanitation issues in towns experiencing rapid growth in Southern Africa.
Winning the race: Sanitation in rapidly-growing towns
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC, together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held in Lusaka, Zambia (10 -11 November), will explore proactive, tangible ways to deal with pressing sanitation issues in towns experiencing rapid growth in Southern Africa. SADC participants are hereby invited to apply, the deadline for applications is 10 October 2011.
Background paper: Sanitation in rapidly-growing towns
This background note discusses the key actors in dealing with sanitation matters and the incentives that shape their action (or inaction). It highlights how smaller towns typically act as a bridge between rural and urban, which permits the development of new, original strategies. The note outlines how stakeholders should take responsibility, learn from others, and be proactive in seizing the pragmatic opportunities that lie ahead.
Lusaka Learning and Sharing Session Report November 2011
A key recommendation from the AfricaSan III seminar was for the exchange of lessons between rapidly growing small towns and larger cities, to enable town planners to take lessons learnt into account and to work cross-sectorally so that sanitation planners are better able to maximise the opportunities presented by the small town context.
As a result, IRC engaged the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) in a joint initiative to identify a municipality of a rapidly growing town to host the workshop and co-convene a pragmatic, local government-lead engagement, addressing the challenges and seizing the opportunities presented by the rapidly growing small town context.
The workshop was informally hosted by the Zambian Local Government Association in the City of Lusaka.
The objectives and expected results were adapted to a more in-depth session in the SADC region, aimed at enabling a more in-depth, circumscribed focus, and facilitating more readily constituted, geographically adjacent Communities of Practice for taking work forward after the workshop.
The participants were carefully selected and an even mix of public (health, water and local government), private and civil society stakeholders in planning, implementing, regulating and providing ongoing sanitation services in towns, cities and rural areas. The AusAID-supported project sponsored the participation of 12 participants from SADC countries.
This is the report from the Sanitation Learning and Sharing Session in Lusaka.
Report - Sanitation Learning and Sharing Workshop Lusaka 2011_final (2).pdf (912.8 kB)
Sanitation in rapidly growing towns: where to go for more information?
Here you can find links to websites, organisations and publications which provide information on sanitation in small and rapidly growing towns.
Key documents Sanitation in Rapidly Growing Towns.pdf (392.0 kB)
Lessons learnt and case materials
Materials presented during the Learning and Sharing workshop on sanitation in rapidly growing towns. This workshop was held in Lusaka, Zambia in November 2011.
