IRC Sanitation Pack, SanPack for short, contains an overview of available methods, techniques and tools in a low-cost, non-sewered sanitation service model, including information on operation and maintenance. It is a reference guide containing links to relevant documents explaining the different stages in the sanitation cycle.
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This booklet presents several examples from Bolivia, the Philippines and Argentina of group- or NGO-based impact monitoring.
SCHWARZ, B. GERMAN, D. GOHL, E. (1996): Participatory Impact Monitoring Booklet 3: Application Examples. Eschborn: GATE/GTZ URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/WACP%20UNHABITAT%202006%20Community%20Management.jpg)
This paper puts forward possible measures for strengthening the urban water sector along with the enhancement of the capacity of the community, emphasizing the importance of water charges billing and collection involving user groups or NGOs.
WACP-UNHABITAT-WATER FOR ASIAN CITIES PROGRAMME, INDIA- UN-HABITAT (1999): Community Managed Systems for Operation, Billing and Collection of Water Charges. (= Policy Paper 1 ). Nairobi: UN-HABITAT URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/chast.jpg)
This paper describes the CHAST approach and contains coloured pictures (e.g. of the cards used for the card game).
IRC (2006): CHAST in Somalia - Case Study. Delft: IRC URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]This website contains a collection of training material intended to assist practitioners in helping low-income communities to overcome poverty, emphasizing methods and principles, not theory. One of the modules deals with the community project resources, including project proposals.
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Experiences with PHAST in western Ghana.
NUNOO, D., MUMUNI, O and NUKUNU, N. (2009): Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST): A methodology for sustainable hygiene and sanitation behaviour change with experience from the Bawku West District of Ghana. Accra (Ghana): West Africa Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium. URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/BAARS%202006%20Project%20Management%20Handbook.jpg)
This project management tutorial is intended for anyone who is involved in or will be involved in projects that take place within or are conducted in association with DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services). The text, however, has been prepared in such a way that it can be used by other organisations, particularly those in the non-profit sector, that use project-based working methods.
BAARS, W. (2006): Project Management Handbook, Version 1.1 – July 2006. URL [Accessed: 19.06.2019]This link brings you to the official homepage of the WHO and its water and sanitation department.
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In 2004, the WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality recommended that water suppliers develop and implement "Water Safety Plans" (WSPs) in order to systematically assess and manage risks. Since this time, governments and regulators, water suppliers and practitioners have increasingly embraced this approach, but they have also requested further guidance. This much-anticipated workbook answers this call by describing how to develop and implement a WSP in clear and practical terms. Stepwise advice is provided through 11 learning modules, each representing a key step in the WSP development and implementation process.
BARTRAM, J. CORRALES, L. DAVISON, A. DEERE, D. DRURY, D. GORDON, B. HOWARD, G. RINEHOLD, A. STEVENS, M. (2009): Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-step Risk Management for Drinking-water Suppliers. Geneva/London: World Health Organization (WHO); International Water Association (IWA) URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]This policy perspective summarises key messages about the economic case for water investment, the barriers to investment and the financing gap. It charts a course for action to better value water and to facilitate water investment at scale. The Roundtable on Water Financing, a joint initiative of the OECD, the World Water Council and the Netherlands, will continue to deepen the evidence base and broaden engagement on these issues.
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This document describes the framework set by the Government of India to meet its overall goal of transforming urban India into community-driven, totally sanitised, healthy and liveable cities and towns.
MOUD (2008): National Urban Sanitation Policy. New Delhi: Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD). URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]This video by IRC’s WASHCost project examines the full costs of building traditional latrines in Mozambique. There, cost data for planning are collected by local authorities. They gather the information around households in the area. Households are visited and their sanitation situation is assessed. This gives a clear picture of what is actually achieved.
This paper reviews five different sustainability assessment tools that are currently in use for programme monitoring of WASH interventions. The selected tools all have a developed framework that has each been pilot tested and produces an objective and quantifiable output (e.g., final score or percentage) that can be used to trigger improvements to programme design or take remedial actions.
BOULENOUAR, J. SCHWEITZER, R. LOCKWOOD, H. (2013): Mapping Sustainability Assessment Tools to Support Sustainable Water and Sanitation Service Delivery. (= Working Paper , 6 ). The Hague: International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), Water Services that Last URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/WSP%202007%20Community%20Led%20Total%20Sanitation%20in%20Rural%20Areas%20An%20Approach%20that%20Works.jpg)
This document describes how the CLTS approach came to live, how it was further developed and how the application of this approach was dispread all over the world.
WSP (2007): Community-Led Total Sanitation in Rural Areas. An Approach that Works. Washington DC: Water and Sanitation Program URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/TAYLER%20et%20al%202000%20Strategic%20Planning%20for%20Municipal%20Sanitation.jpg)
This guide provides practical guidelines for the implementation of strategic sanitation concepts. Part A introduces important strategic concepts and is intended to put the rest of the guide into context. Part B, the heart of the guide, is divided into three sections, each containing information on the processes to be followed to develop a more strategic approach to sanitation service provision at a particular level. Part C contains a set of tools to assist strategic planning, training modules, and a section suggesting further sources of information.
TAYLER, K. COLIN, J. PARKINSON, J. (2000): Strategic Planning for Municipal Sanitation – A Guide. URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]The introduction of adequate sanitation can provide a range of health advantages and other positive benefits to households and communities. This case examines the impacts a for-profit enterprise, providing sanitation services to the Base of the Pyramid, has on children and pregnant women and how these impacts can be enhanced.
ESPER, H. LONDON, T. KANCHWALA, Y. (2013): Improved Sanitation and its Impact on Children. An Exploration of Sanergy. (= Child Impact Case Study , 2 ). Ann Arbor: William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/EMPOWERS%202006%20TRAINING%20GUIDE.jpg)
The aim of this training manual is to share insights and experience of participatory water resource management approaches and tools, as developed by EMPOWERS and to train participants in specific tools for planning of water development and management projects at local community levels. The training manual operates as a guideline for training courses held by EMPOWERS.
INWRDAM-EMPOWERS (2006): Training Manual for: Pro-poor participatory planning of community water services. INWRDAM-EMPOWERS URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/WATERAID%202011%20Revitalising%20Community-led%20Total%20Sanitation.jpg)
After observing how CLTS was changing lives in Bangladesh, WaterAid introduced the approach in Nigeria in 2005. Over time it became clear that the practice would need to be adapted to be effective in another country and continent with its own challenges. Drawing on the findings from evaluations and research on CLTS in the country, WaterAid in Nigeria has progressively revitalized the CLTS process. This document is a practical guide to implementing the revitalized CLTS approach and covers the main barriers and triggers to progress likely to be encountered along the way.
WATERAID (2011): Revitalising Community-led Total Sanitation: A Process Guide. London: WaterAid URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]![](/sites/default/files/reference_icons/TREMOLET%202012%20Sanitation%20Markets.%20Using%20economics%20to%20improve%20the%20delivery%20of%20services%20along%20the%20sanitation%20value%20chain.jpg)
The "sanitation economics" approach used throughout the paper consists of applying economic principles, approaches and tools to evaluate a number of "sanitation markets" alongside the sanitation value chain. Each segment of the sanitation value chain can be conceived as a separate "sanitation market", with different actors demanding and providing sanitation services.
TREMOLET, S. (2012): Sanitation Markets. Using economics to improve the delivery of services along the sanitation value chain. London: Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE) URL [Accessed: 18.06.2019]