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Product Development for Social Marketing of Sanitation and Waste Recycling Systems

A pictorial view of the results and achievements December 2006 to October 2007

Community mobilization meetings on sanitation and waste management were held; at least 100 households in three slums in Kampala were mobilized.

A community meeting in Mulago III, Kawempe Division. March 2007. Photo by F. A. Asiimwe

Twenty (20) masons were trained on sustainable toilet options through a five days theoretical and practical training session and on-job practical work that took place during the construction phase.



Handover of basic masonry tools to 20 masons trained by SSWARS, Jan. 07.Photo by P. Kagambo

SSWARS staff were facilitated by WaterAid Uganda to visit community waste management projects in Nairobi and Nakuru, Kenya (January 2007). The purpose of the visit was to learn good practices that can be adopted in slums in Kampala.

Recycled products from polyethylene and other plastic products, Nairobi. February 2007. Photos by C. Niwagaba and S. Munywe, KEMA, KENYA

As a spin off, SSWARS invited Experts from Kayole Environment Management (KEMA) Foundation in Nairobi led by re-known recycler, Mr. Simon N. Munywe, to train more than 100 slum dwellers on how to recycle waste.



The Executive Director of NEMA, Uganda, Mr. Aryamanya (left), Luciani Jenn (2nd left), the head of co-operation at French Embassy in Uganda, and other officials inspecting the items made from waste. French Embassy, partly funded the project with WaterAid, Uganda. Photo by S. Balagadde. Sept. 2007

Design and construction of affordable latrine options with input from community members and key stakeholders. Consequently, ten (10) demonstration latrines comprising of two (2) communal and six (6) household latrines were constructed in the community while two (2) demo units were constructed at the sani-center. The latrines are serving at least 1,000 slum dwellers.



Front view of the 5 stance communal Alternating Twin Pit VIP in Mukalazi zone, Bwaise II, April 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba

To offer a wide range of options and provide a ‘shop’ of toilet options where by people can select what best suites them in view of their social and economic status, space requirements, site conditions etc., a number of toilet models of varying designs were constructed. Desk models of each toilet were made in wood and are available at the sani-center as part of the resource material that people learn from when they visit the sani-center.



Back/Side view of the communal alternating twin pit VIP in Mukalazi zone, Bwaise II, May 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba



Fossa Alterna latrine in Kyebando Central, Kyebando Parish, May 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba

A cheap latrine model was demonstrated for poor households, consisting of a slab, with treated wooden logs as the support structure, and a little cement on top to make it easy for cleaning.




Front view of the low-cost household latrine in Kisalosalo zone, Kyebando Parish, May 2007. Photo by E. Atwine

The dry urine diverting toilet was also promoted among the alternative low-cost toilet options.



A dry urine diverting ecological sanitation demonstration toilet at the sani-center in Kifumbira zone, Mulago III, May 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba



A latrine slab with twin squat holes, suitable for a two stance latrine, and when more units are placed side by side, can be applied in multi-stance latrine construction, May 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba

SSWARS constructed a community sanitation center (sani-centre) in Kifumbira zone, Mulago III. The sani-center was equipped with Six (6) latrine desk models of the options developed and resource material.

A community sanitation center in Kifumbira, Mulago III, May 2007. Photo by C. Niwagaba



Other outputs that have not been shown pictorially are:

  1. Promotional materials (300 in number) including posters and fact sheets were designed, produced and disseminated.
  2. Two (2) drama shows were staged for hygiene promotion and sensitization on latrine options that were developed.
  3. A catalogue of sustainable toilet options was produced.
  4. A curing tank for latrine slabs was constructed at the sani-center
  5. A framework for solid waste management in Kawempe Division focusing on community based activities was developed.

Planned

  • In the second phase of the Project funded by Water Aid, SSWARS is working on sustainable community solid waste management with emphasis on recycling. So far, more than 100 people have been trained on waste recycling that includes: making useful products out of plastics and polyethylene such as mats, shoes, handbags; roofing/floor tiles and fencing poles as well as charcoal briquettes for cooking.
  • SSWARS will construct a communal waste recycling center and demonstrate the holistic approach to recycling, which will include windrow composting for organic municipal waste for the production of manure and soil conditioner.
  • SSWARS is developing a project with the French Embassy in Kampala, entitled “Systems for Excreta and Domestic Biowaste Management for Improving People’s Livelihoods in Kampala’s Slums”. The project brief is attached on the next page.
  • SSWARS signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UNDP, Millennium Development project in September 2007 and is working on a project with the UN-MVP to design and install four (4) treatment systems for iron and manganese removal from spring water sources in Ruhiira Village, Isingiro District.
  • SSWARS is discussing with Kampala City Council to work on mobilization activities for water and sanitation in Kawempe Division under the Kampala Integrated Environmental Management Project (KIEMP) funded by the Government of Uganda and the Government of Belgium.


Systems for Excreta and Domestic Biowaste Management for Improving People’s Livelihoods in Kampala’s Slums.

Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal Systems (SSWARS)
Bwaise II, Kawempe Division, Kampala District.

Description of the project
Objectives
The immediate objectives of the project are:
  1. to mobilize and train 300 community members including PDcs, and community artisans in the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of sustainable sanitation practices, viz., the biogas technology,
  2. to construct three demonstration biogas units (two at household each and one at community level) and demonstrate possibilities for renewable energy utilization from human/animal waste and domestic biowaste,
  3. to demonstrate household and community composting of biowaste for resource recycling in urban agriculture and for improving household incomes and food security.

Budget (UGX)
Amount % Comment
59,050,000 80% Capacity bulding/Training, blogas construction
12,850,000 17% Additional staff costs
1,870,000 3% contributed towards cost of blogas facilities
Total: 73,770,000 100%

Analysis
Innovative character

In most of the slum areas around Kampala, people live in and raise their children in dirty and disease ridden environments. One of the identified factors contributing to this situation is inappropriate excreta and solid waste management. Technologies for sustainable management and utilisation of resources from excreta and solid waste are available but have not been applied in slum areas around Kampala. SSWARS’s approach to waste management, which considers recycling of resources for reduced expenses on the national electricity grid on one hand, a resultant clean environment with less impact to cause poor sanitation related diseases, and the possibility to grow food using recycled products to improve nutrition and food security on the other hand is an innovation.


The project will be implemented using an innovative capacity building approach that will include training community members, PDCs and community artisans in the development planning, construction, operation and maintenance, transparency and accountability in the provision of sustainable excreta and domestic biowaste management systems. Skills will be imparted to community members to enable them analyse problems and suggest solutions. The PDCs will stimulate grassroots planning to ensure priorities of the poor are included in parish development plans.
Potential for scaling-up & sustainability

Involvement of local community masons in construction of biogas units and local carpenters in the fabrication of compost units will leave behind a supply chain. Coupled with mobilisation, sensitisation and marketing, it will be possible for community members who wish to take up the technologies to get local technicians from the community who can construct the units for them, especially the composters. For biogas units, it will require more time than is available in this project for local technicians to reach the level of constructing units without the need for supervision. This will be solved by forming a network, whereby it will be possible for SSWARS staff to be reached for technical aspects related to design and construction or operation and maintenance, even after the project ends. Compost and biogas units do not have moving parts. Once constructed they are easy and cheap to operate and maintain hence they will be sustainable.