Safe faecal sludge emptying and transport: compliance challenges and models for a public good

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dc.contributor.authorGrisaffi, Claire
dc.contributor.authorLeinster, Paul
dc.contributor.authorMugo, Kariuki
dc.contributor.authorDrabble, Sam
dc.contributor.authorParker, Alison
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-07T13:06:51Z
dc.date.available2025-05-07T13:06:51Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-05-07
dc.date.issued2025-05-01
dc.date.pubOnline2025-03-14
dc.description.abstractIn the 81 countries where most urban dwellers rely on faecal sludge (FS) emptying and transport, services are frequently provided by a heterogeneous private sector. Considering the responses of service providers is essential to ensuring that the regulatory frameworks put into place achieve their intended outcomes and safeguard public and environmental health. Combining a literature review and expert practitioner input, we identify priority challenges for scaling safe FS emptying and transport (E&T) services and use these to adapt a holistic model of business compliance. We confirm well-documented challenges such as cost structures for compliance with regulation, the perception of services as low status, and an inadequate enabling environment. We identify the importance of trust in building voluntary compliance as a novel issue for sanitation but widely discussed in the regulation literature. We also identify a distinct role for the regulator as a catalyst for change. The role of disgust as a policy barrier and the application of behavioural theory to building compliance are areas warranting further research. This is the first paper to explicitly consider the regulation of FS E&T through a compliance lens, linking established areas of the regulation literature to new findings in urban sanitation.
dc.description.journalNameH2Open Journal
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC grant number EP/S022066/1) through the Center for Doctoral Training in Water and Waste Infrastructure and Ser vices Engineered for Resilience (WaterWISER)
dc.format.extentpp. 157-177
dc.identifier.citationGrisaffi C, Leinster P, Mugo K, et al., (2025) Safe faecal sludge emptying and transport: compliance challenges and models for a public good. H2Open Journal, Volume 8, Issue 3, May 2025, pp. 157-177
dc.identifier.eissn2616-6518
dc.identifier.elementsID566646
dc.identifier.issn2616-6518
dc.identifier.issueNo3
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2166/h2oj.2025.041
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23854
dc.identifier.volumeNo8
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIWA Publishing
dc.publisher.urihttps://iwaponline.com/h2open/article/8/3/157/107501/Safe-faecal-sludge-emptying-and-transport
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject41 Environmental Sciences
dc.subject4104 Environmental Management
dc.subject8.1 Organisation and delivery of services
dc.subject8.3 Policy, ethics, and research governance
dc.subjectGeneric health relevance
dc.subject11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject4104 Environmental management
dc.subjectregulation
dc.subjectsanitation
dc.subjecturban
dc.titleSafe faecal sludge emptying and transport: compliance challenges and models for a public good
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2025-02-17

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