Non-Sewered Sanitation and Fecal Sludge Management (FSM)
Outline
Addressing sanitation and fecal sludge management issues while simultaneously structuring the sanitation market goes a long way in preventing adverse health, economic, and environmental effects for citizens living in areas with these challenges. Niyel, in partnership with Speak Up Africa and IPAR, works to strengthen the engagement of decision makers in prioritizing sanitation issues, and implementing policies to increase access to and use of non-sewered sanitation in West Africa. This is done by building and sustaining political leadership for policies that safely drive and manage sanitation in target regions. To achieve this, civil society, youth and community engagement, decision-maker engagement, and media campaigns were successfully employed.
Length of Project:
Phase One is 3 years, Phase Two is 3 years
Stakeholders Engaged:
Ministries, parliamentarians, civil society organizations, media
Impact
- In Benin
- Parliament in Benin adopts a law on public hygiene.
- In Burkina Faso
- 1.16% budget increase for Water & Sanitation within the Ministry
- Adoption of a policy document named “The framework for the management of wastewater and excreta sector of Burkina Faso” in September 2022
- Decision by ONEA (national utility of water & sanitation) to allocate a line in their budget for capacity building of emptiers
- Decision by Minister of Water and Sanitation to extend the opening hours/days of one of the largest treatment plants in the city (Zagtouli) to resolve recurring insufficiencies of other treatment plants
- Building of a compact plant of 400m3/day to resolve the lack of treatment plants and malfunction of one treatment plant (Kossodo)
- Increased recognition of CSOs and emptiers as key actors of the sector by local and national authorities
- Better cooperation between civil society and the government on policies and practices
- Contribution of CSOs in strengthening the legislative framework in Ouagadougou
- Provision of new legal dumping sites
- Development of a municipal fecal sludge management plan
- In Mali
- The National Sanitation Policy was renewed and adopted.
- On the public discourse
- More than 1,800 people played the poop trivia
- More than 300,000 engagements on social media
- More than 80,000 engagements on the sanitation anthem
- 13 millions media coverage of sanitation in mainstream television and radio
