The Swiss Blue Community Eawag, the Federal Aquatic Research Institute, and its Department of Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development Sandec announces a new publication: “Citywide Inclusive Sanitation: Reviewing the State of the Art” by Vasco Schelbert & Abishek Narayan.
Interested in Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS), how it evolved since 2016? The Discussion Paper provides a comprehensive overview, identifies key advances, current gaps & emerging issues to inform ways forward.
From the executive summary
Urban sanitation is a basic service essential for public and environmental health. Incorporating various advances over the past two decades, the urban sanitation agenda has evolved towards the paradigm shift of Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS). Overall, CWIS aims at providing equitable and sustainable sanitation services and is closely linked to Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 6 on clean water and sanitation and directly and indirectly benefits several other SDGs. Since its inception in 2016, CWIS has evolved through various research and implementation experiences, resulting in four conceptual frameworks that redefine sanitation as a service delivery process, emphasizing the entire sanitation value chain and the coexistence of sewered and non-sewered technologies.
This discussion paper draws on 77 journal articles and grey literature explicitly linked to CWIS, reviews the state of the art on the topic by comparing the four prominent CWIS frameworks and by identifying key advances, current gaps, and emerging issues to inform ways forward towards a more unified CWIS framework.
