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Sanitation Problem Tree

Waterborne Diseases  Waterways 

pollution

Inadequate sanitation, low treatment of  wastewater, poor solid waste mgt Inadequate

 action

 by

 government

 (national)

 for

 low

 priority

 on

 sanitation

 improvement and predominant focus on water supply

SOCIAL

Access issues

Lack of  hygiene behavior 

No community action/

participation 

Low willingness to pay 

(inherited)

TECHNOLOGY

Unsustainable O&M costs

Inappropriate design 

Technology options not understood 

Deteriorating assets, poor 

service delivery 

POLITICAL Low

 priority;

 no

 strategic plan; no budget

ECON. & FIN’L

Consumers unwilling to pay 

No financially viable system to 

cover O&M

INSTITUTIONS 

Weak enforcement of  

env. Laws

Low LG skills 

Lack of  sustainable approach

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Is there a need and why?

Improvement of sanitation infrastructure(sewerage and solid waste) urgently required for:

Eliminating incidences of waterborne diseases,

Reducing environmental degradation and

Overall economic development

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What are the priority areas?

Urgent Rehabilitation/Repair of Sewerage

networks (63% of the total Existing Dilapidated

networks)

Full replacement of the existing dysfunctional

WWTPs (20 stations)

Infrastructure provision for solid waste

management (supply of equipment,

development of landfill sites with adequatetreatment )

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Next Steps

Mobilisation of additional financial resources for

filling existing financial gap of about $1.6 billion

(2015) for sanitation infrastructure development

and operation

Maintaining PPP approach to continuesustainable management

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