posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08authored byChristoph Luthi, Elizabeth Tilley
This paper presents the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation (HCES) approach, jointly developed
by the WSSCC and Eawag/Sandec (Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries). The presentation explores
its origins, theoretical foundations and the problems it seeks to address. HCES is a method which
proposes to start the holistic planning process with household decisions on service needs, and then move
outward from the household to the neighbourhood, town and upper levels of government. Thus, the link
between community expression of needs and mobilization of resources to solve them and other inputs from
higher up the line is assured. The second part of the paper explores a new approach to widening system
and technology options for household-centred approaches by thinking as sanitation as a ’cradle-to-grave’
system rather than stand-alone technologies.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
WEDC Conference
Citation
LUTHI, C. and TILLEY, E., 2008. HCES: a new approach to environmental sanitation planning for urban areas. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 46-49.
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