The work plan was designed in a cascade way, so results from work packages and tasks fed into new stages. All the tasks contained in WP1 (Definition of evaluation criteria) and some of the tasks of WP2 (Regional Evaluation and classification in typical settlements) and WP7 (Coordination of research, technology development and cooperation) started in month 1 after the kick-off meeting, since the rest of the work packages depended on the information they gather. The work of the first work package was completed by month 3, in order to provide the tools for the assessment and recognition of local conditions (WP2) and for the evaluation of sanitation technologies (WP3), which was already started in month 1, aiming to identify potential regions and technologies, but the evaluation began at month 3.

Before the midterm meeting at month 13, all the tasks in WP2 and WP3 were finished, in order to carry out the WP4 (identification of potential sustainable sanitation technologies) during the frame of the meeting. At the end of the month 13, appropriated technologies for each typical case were discussed and defined, starting thus the definition of the technical and non-technical requirements. In month 14, the tasks 4.2 and 4.53 of the WP4 were finished, giving opportunity to the WP5 (Regional Identification of possible providers and actors) to begin the local mapping of small and medium enterprises. At the same time WP6 started the formulation of the Adapted Sustainable Management System (WP6) and the guidelines “Implementing low cost sustainable sanitation approaches in West Africa”, based on all the information gathered during the previous stages.

The dissemination phase (WP8) started at month 1, when the members of the consortium started defining educational synergies.  During the first year bi-national workshops in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire took place, in order to support the formation of new extension activities for the specialised public. It was on month 11, when the key actors were identified, allowing designing of sensitive activities of extension to users and authorities depending on local conditions. During the second year, the activities of this work package started to be more strongly perceived, by means of specialised training actions for four different publics: farmers, authorities, specialised scientific community and general public, though workshops, seminars, mass communication strategy, data information systems, etc.

The Project Co-ordination Work Package (WP9) was ongoing throughout the project. Its multiple activities of monitoring, organising, reporting, etc. were perceived all along the timeframe.