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Sanitation - a neglected essential service in the unregulated urban expansion of Ashaiman, Ghana

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posted on 2015-06-03, 13:04 authored by Adrien P. Mazeau, Rebecca ScottRebecca Scott, Benedict Tuffuor
In Ghana, over 70% of urban dwellers do not have private sanitation facilities in their home and rely instead on an informal network of shared toilets. Using results from house surveys, sanitary surveys of toilets and their observed use, this paper explores how the different type of toilets are distributed and utilized in three neighbourhoods of Ashaiman, a rapidly growing city in southern Ghana. The study reveals how and why access to sanitation facilities is influenced by the process of urban development, the distribution of the population and local urban planning policies. Differences in sanitation provision from one area of Ashaiman to another are not limited to the number and location of toilets, but also different levels of service and user fees, that impact on the daily lives of thousands of urban residents. Findings of the study indicate that provision of new sanitation facilities, individual or shared, must consider the motives of implementers, the needs and preferences of the residents and the broader urban context, where patterns of urban development play a critical role.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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Sustainable Futures Conference: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South

Citation

MAZEAU, A.P., SCOTT, R.E. and TUFFUOR, B., 2012. Sanitation - a neglected essential service in the unregulated urban expansion of Ashaiman, Ghana. IN: Proceedings of Sustainable Futures Conference: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South, Kampala, Uganda, 25-30 June 2012, pp. 37-44.

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The Faculty of The Built Environment Uganda Martyrs University

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2012

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This is a conference paper.

Language

  • en

Location

Kampala, Uganda

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