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International Conference "Pathways towards Sustainable Sanitation in Africa" Ouagaougou Burkina Faso, September 2008

"Bottom-up" approach system

A "bottom-up" approach is one that works from the grassroots i.e. from a large number of people working together, causing a decision to arise from their joint involvement. Sustainable sanitation requires a bottom-up approach system in which the needs and involvement of the users (“bottom”), determines the types of sanitation system implemented by the planners/ authorities (“up”).

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NETSSAF "Network for the development of Sustainable Approaches for large scale implementation of Sanitation in Africa", is a coordination action sponsored by the European Commission with its objectives including the coordination and integration of current scientific researches and technological innovations in Africa, solely for the creation of synergies to support large-scale implementation of sustainable sanitation systems in peri-urban and rural areas. The aim of NETSSAF is thus to propose feasible solutions for the achievement of the Sanitation Millennium Development Goals in Africa.

 

 

 

 

In order to cover the various aspects of Sustainable Sanitation, the NETSSAF activities and partners were divided into 8 different Work Packages (WP), covering all related issues and to be capped with the organizing of an International conference in September, 2008 titled "Pathways towards Sustainable Sanitation in Africa". The objective of this conference is to jointly bring together the members of the NETSSAF consortium alongside decision makers, sanitation professionals and practitioners as well as scientists, to present their findings and discuss future trends and directions concerning the development of sustainable approaches for large scale sanitation issues in rural and peri-urban areas. Click here for more information

 

 

Some of the already completed Work Package activities include;

 

 

WP1 titled the “Definition of evaluation criteria” started at the beginning of the project and its aim was to define the necessary evaluation criteria for the future activities to be performed during the course of the project.

 

WP2 titled the “Regional evaluation and classification in typical settlements”. The objective of this work package was to collect and systemise relevant information regarding the current sanitation, social and institutional situation of peri urban and rural areas in West Africa.

 

WP3 “Assessment of sanitation technologies” was devoted to the assessment of the existing low conventional sanitation options and the innovative sanitation technologies.