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Town Sanitation Planning: Start it small, scale it up
Two More Water Pumps for City
operations and general management of the City’s water production infrastructure at
Morton Jaffray and Prince Edward Water Treatment Plants.
Unclogging Uganda’s Rural Sanitation Crisis
Under a co-funding agreement with the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID), the
GIZ “Reform of the Urban Water and Sanitation Sector”
(RUWASS) programme supports the development and
implementation of so-called town sanitation plans in up
to five small towns of northern Uganda.
These towns’ have a population of about 5.000 inhabitants
and are lacking basic structural needs for sustainable
sanitation management, e.g. pit latrine emptying services or
faecal sludge treatment facilities as well as regulatory and
institutional frameworks. The GIZ RUWASS´ approach
builds on its longstanding experience in the WASH sector
in Uganda to adopt an integrated and participatory town
planning process. The key deliverable of the planning
process is a long-term sanitation action plan that has to
be endorsed by the local council/government before its
implementation.
Sanitation action plans contain the town’s priority issues,
objectives and targets for improving sanitation, the
planned activities, and a financial and