The potential for reuse was found to be limited by the combined challenges of the existing sanitation infrastructure, pervasive cultural perceptions, a lack of cross-sector collaboration, and a narrative that exaggerates the benefits of the circular sanitation economy and endorses a market- only driven approach to sanitation. [...] In contrast, Ghana and Ethiopia, lacking similar sanitation drives, have Intersectionality deepens open defecation rates of 17% and 18%, and 16% sanitation inequities and exclusion and 7% of the population with safely managed for marginalised groups sanitation services, respectively.7 An important and often overlooked dimension This situation was also observed in the five of sanitation is the impa. [...] While workers in the formal sector are unionised In Wa, this is evidenced by the absence of and can exert some agency and receive limited sanitation plans, by-laws and a designated social and economic security, informal workers waste management department, all of which face multiple challenges related to wages, demonstrate the low priority given to sanitation health, dignity and safety. [...] Protect the rights of sanitation workers and ensure decent work for them Governments should recognise the key role of both formal and informal sanitation workers in keeping sanitation services running and their towns and cities clean and liveable. [...] Towards Brown Gold? The challenges and opportunities of reuse in realising universal sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas / 9 Be strategic and realistic in promoting the circular sanitation economy While in general it makes sense from economic, environmental and climate change perspectives to reuse treated faecal waste, overselling the benefits of the circular sanitation economy can be counterpr.
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Table of Contents
- Towards Brown Gold 1
- Executive summary 2
- The research highlights the following key recommendations for decision makers to 2
- Introduction 3
- Findings 5
- Access to sanitation is still lagging 5
- Intersectionality deepens sanitation inequities and exclusion for marginalised groups 5
- The research also found that access to safely managed sanitation is mediated by class caste migration and gender. 6
- Sanitation workers face discrimination and extremely poor working conditions 6
- Social dynamics and inadequate policies and practice 6
- Policy gaps and inefficiencies hamper progress 6
- Communities voice and power improve sanitation and working conditions 7
- Community mobilisation 7
- Local leadership 7
- All that is brown is not gold Challenges to the circular sanitation economy 7
- Recommendations 9
- Based on these findings the recommendations for decision makers in government and sanitation sector institutions are to 9
- Make safely managed sanitation services in small towns and cities a political priority 9
- Facilitate comprehensive and inclusive sanitation planning 9
- Protect the rights of sanitation workers and ensure decent work for them 9
- Be strategic and realistic in promoting the circular sanitation economy 10
- Ground reuse efforts in the economic social and cultural context 10
- Reform policy to create an enabling environment for reuse 10
- Conclusion 11
- The findings from the Towards Brown Gold research project highlight that the reuse of treated faecal waste in rapidly urbanising areas has potential but also faces substantial challenges. 11
- References 11
- Acknowledgements 12
- For more information about the project please visit 12
