Sanitation Partnerships Harnessing Potential (BPD) - The Water ...

PAGE 30 – BPD WATER AND SANITATIONSANITATION PARTNERSHIPS – HARNESSING POTENTIALSECTION 5 – Scope for further work23- $ "" !! " " $< $ "$! ( $ !6$ % " % !!" "($ $% "5 % $ ! ( ! $8 A better understanding of which rung on the sanitation ladder (household,compound, communal) is appropriate in which circumstances, how outsideorganisations can best engage with each, and how they can be blended into acoherent neighbourhood package. Piloting of delivery models that “start with the end in mind” (i.e. where in-situtreatment is not achievable, the removal and treatment of waste from poor urbanhouseholds), and work back from there to promote better access to sanitationservices (and accompany it with hygiene education). Investigation into links between the mode and frequency of pit emptying andinnovation in the facilities used to access sanitation (e.g. the use of smaller vaultlatrines to foster and sustain a viable, yet hygienic emptying service). Exploration of ways to aggregate the demand for sanitation services, especially pitemptying, while retaining the flexibility to cater to the diverse needs of poorcommunities. Work that looks at how household demand and community demand can be made towork in tandem to deliver better sanitation (for instance ways to combine householdlevel marketing with community-wide approaches) Clearer guidance on the importance of tenancy to modes of sanitation delivery andits consequences for recent approaches such as social marketing and communityleveltotal sanitation. A better understanding of how disease is transmitted (via the public and domesticdomains) in poor urban communities and what the most significant scenarios implyfor modes of sanitation delivery and the respective roles of households, serviceproviders and public authorities. More work on the respective role that champions, intermediaries and collaborativefora play in enhancing sanitation delivery. Application of some of the analytical tools used in the BPD work to explore sanitationpartnerships in South Asia (further exploring the relevance of the four on-sitesanitation themes , the ‘three goods’ model and the threepartnership roles ).