Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Glossary and definitions
Performance Report for FY 2009/10
Basket funding Aid finance flowing from a joint development partners’ account, kept
separate from other funding for the same (sub-) sectors. Transfers are
not made through the government systems and in effect the basket
funding is a collection of projects. The Joint Partnership Fund (JPF) is an
example in the water sector of basket funding using on-budget project
modalities.
Development
Partner (DP)
Bilateral, multilateral and international organizations and agencies
providing support to Government of Uganda or CSOs.
The Arborloo The Arboloo (also known as Eco-pit) is a form of ecological sanitation
technology for human excreta disposal. The technology involves a slab
mounted on a ring beam of bricks or concrete and a shallow pit is dug
down inside the beam. A simple structure for privacy, made from locally
available materials, is then built around the slab. Flies and odours are
controlled by regularly adding soil, wood ash and leaves into the shallow
pit. By adding the soil, ash and leaves, the excreta in the pit turns
into compost. Once full, the slab and superstructure are moved to a
new place. It is then possible to grow a fruit tree or banana on this
compost.
The Fossa
Alterna
Ecological
Sanitation
(EcoSan)
Fossa Alterna is another form of ecological sanitation. This is a simple
alternating twin pit system designed specifically to recycle humus for
use in agriculture. The pits are managed in such a way that excreta is
changed into humus after six to nine months of decomposition, when the
humus may be dug out and taken to gardens. This is facilitated by the
regular and generous addition of soil, wood ash and leaves during use.
The pits of a fossa alterna are shallow, about 1.2 m deep, maximum of
1.5 m deep.
Ecological sanitation often referred to as “ecosan” is a holistic approach
to sanitation and water management based on the systematic closure
of local material flow-cycles. It introduces the concept of sustainability
to sanitation by its basic principle of closing the (nutrient) loop between
sanitation and agriculture. The main objectives are (i) to reduce the
health risks related to sanitation, contaminated water and waste, (ii)
to prevent the pollution of surface and ground water, (iii) to prevent
the degradation of soil fertility and, (iv) to optimize the management
of nutrients and water resources. The concept can be implemented
through a great variety of technologies; the Arboloo, the fossa Alterna,
and Urine Diverting Dry Toilet (UDDT).
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