Publication: Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals
Date
2018-05
ISSN
Published
2018-05
Author(s)
Gibson, Jim
Eales, Kathy
Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris
Abstract
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
Citation
“Gibson, Jim; Eales, Kathy; Nsubuga-Mugga, Chris. 2018. Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals; Reviewing National Sanitation to Reach Sustainable Development Goals. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29914 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”