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)