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Launch of the 3K-SAN Research Project

Friday 15 April 2011

"Sustainable sanitation for the urban poor"

The recently launched EU funded 3K-SAN project aims to identify and evaluate strategies for catalysing self-sustaining sanitation chains in low-income informal settlements in Kisumu (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Kigali (Rwanda). This multi-institutional project involves several Surrey academics, including Professor Rosalind Malcolm and Dr Thoko Kaime from the Environmental Regulatory Research Group, School of Law.

 

Identification of commonalities and differences between these areas is being used to develop broader best-practice guidelines for comparable interventions in similar settlements throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The projects aims are being achieved through:

  1. mapping and analysis of sanitation-related financial flows, stakeholder roles, regulatory frameworks and communication pathways
  2. engaging stakeholders to address social and economic barriers to sanitation provision
  3. building capacity for research in sanitation in East Africa and for poverty reduction through facilitated sanitation development in low-income and vulnerable communities
  4. production and dissemination of appropriate guidance packages.

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