Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals

The government of Uganda has given strong emphasis to eradicating open defecation and to encouraging people to invest in safe containment systems. Funding to local governments is spurring sanitation improvement on a significant scale. But as the pa...

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Main Authors:	Gibson, Jim, Eales, Kathy, Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	SANITATION WASTE MANAGEMENT HYGIENE PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE WATER TREATMENT REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358611528892582597/Reviewing-national-sanitation-to-reach-sustainable-development-goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29914

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spelling	okr-10986-299142021-05-25T09:15:25Z Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals Gibson, Jim Eales, Kathy Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris SANITATION WASTE MANAGEMENT HYGIENE PUBLIC SPENDING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE WATER TREATMENT REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS The government of Uganda has given strong emphasis to eradicating open defecation and to encouraging people to invest in safe containment systems. Funding to local governments is spurring sanitation improvement on a significant scale. But as the pace of urbanization picks up in the country and the scale and density of urban settlements rise, local authorities and the ministries that support and service these areas will need to give greater attention to safe management of wastes beyond the on-site facilities of individual users. The SDGs shift the sanitation sector’s targets beyond a measurement of how many people have access to an adequate toilet and define outcomes in terms of safe management of human wastes across the whole service chain. It is only by understanding and managing the processes associated with each component in the chain, and ensuring they link and align with the preceding and subsequent components, that one can begin to define strategic interventions to improve the performance of the system. Developing insight into the nature of these processes and related activities will help to clarify the responsibilities, functions, and possibility for intervention by the various role-players and ministries in the sector as they strive for the realization of the objectives defined by the Sustainable Development Goals 2018-06-20T16:18:31Z 2018-06-20T16:18:31Z 2018-05 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/358611528892582597/Reviewing-national-sanitation-to-reach-sustainable-development-goals http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29914 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Africa Uganda
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description	The government of Uganda has given strong emphasis to eradicating open defecation and to encouraging people to invest in safe containment systems. Funding to local governments is spurring sanitation improvement on a significant scale. But as the pace of urbanization picks up in the country and the scale and density of urban settlements rise, local authorities and the ministries that support and service these areas will need to give greater attention to safe management of wastes beyond the on-site facilities of individual users. The SDGs shift the sanitation sector’s targets beyond a measurement of how many people have access to an adequate toilet and define outcomes in terms of safe management of human wastes across the whole service chain. It is only by understanding and managing the processes associated with each component in the chain, and ensuring they link and align with the preceding and subsequent components, that one can begin to define strategic interventions to improve the performance of the system. Developing insight into the nature of these processes and related activities will help to clarify the responsibilities, functions, and possibility for intervention by the various role-players and ministries in the sector as they strive for the realization of the objectives defined by the Sustainable Development Goals
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author	Gibson, Jim Eales, Kathy Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris
author_facet	Gibson, Jim Eales, Kathy Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris
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title	Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
title_short	Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
title_full	Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
title_fullStr	Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
title_full_unstemmed	Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
title_sort	reviewing national sanitation to reach sustainable development goals
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
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