Transforming citywide sanitation provision: utility voices on pit emptying and transport services in Kenya and Zambia

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dc.contributor.authorGrisaffi, Claire
dc.contributor.authorOluoch, Priscillah
dc.contributor.authorHamuchenje, Eustakia M.
dc.contributor.authorPhiri, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorSalano, Gertrude
dc.contributor.authorHawkes, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorParker, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-06T10:33:00Z
dc.date.available2023-01-06T10:33:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-23
dc.description.abstractThis paper documents the key challenges faced by utilities in sub-Saharan Africa attempting to establish citywide safe manual and semi-mechanized latrine pit emptying, transport and disposal services. The research aims to take a snapshot of utilities at a pivotal point in service development, where initial services have been piloted and the utilities are looking to go to scale. We use the CWIS framework to guide analysis of perspectives of the implementing agencies in Livingstone, Zambia, and Malindi, Kenya, using a secondary data review and 34 key informant interviews. This paper confirms previous findings around the high cost of safe sanitation services in low-income areas, the barriers of emptiability, the engagement of manual pit emptiers and the requirement for investment in supporting systems. Areas for future research were identified, including approaches for service delivery to reduce the decision load on the household, structures of engagement and regulation of pit emptiers, and finally how regulation could support incremental improvements toward full coverage, including the lowest income households. The research documents, for the first time in the region, the challenges of dealing with disgust in establishing these new services and the conflicting role of public utilities as both commercial and social organizations. The current model for private sector delivery of the service is politically viable and reduces the risk and cost burden on the utilities. However, it is likely to leave the utilities unable to scale sanitation to low-income areas.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationGrisaffi C, Oluoch P, Hamuchenje EM, et al., (2022) Transforming citywide sanitation provision: utility voices on pit emptying and transport services in Kenya and Zambia. Frontiers in Water, Volume 4, December 2022, Article Number 1055227en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2624-9375
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.1055227
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/18888
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectwater and sanitation utilitiesen_UK
dc.subjecturbanen_UK
dc.subjectfecal sludge managementen_UK
dc.subjectinformal sectoren_UK
dc.subjectpit emptiersen_UK
dc.titleTransforming citywide sanitation provision: utility voices on pit emptying and transport services in Kenya and Zambiaen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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