Network for the development of sustainable approaches for large-scale implementation of sanitation in Africa

Project Information

NETSSAF

Grant agreement ID: 37099

Project closed

Start date 1 June 2006

End date 30 November 2008

Funded under

• Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 541 800,00

EU contribution € 1 541 800,00

Coordinated by

VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.
Germany

Objective

Without a sharp acceleration in the rate of progress, the world will miss the MDG sanitation target by half a billion people. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa almost two-thirds of the population (64%) are lacking adequate access to excreta disposal facilities. In African countries the sanitation coverage varies from 84% in urban areas to 45% in rural areas. To achieve the year 2015 goal for urban water supply coverage an additional 210 million (194 in rural areas) people over the next 15 years will have to be provided with service. The proposed Coordination Action, aims to congregate the most relevant stakeholders in the field of sustainable sanitation in the Sub-Saharan African and European frame. NETSSAF will promote international cooperation between re search organisations, associations, universities and social and governmental stakeholders in a European and Sub-Saharan African context, focussed in particular in the West African countries.
A sustainable sanitation expert and research co-ordination platform and an expertise network will be established, in order to co-ordinate, assess and guide suitable research and strategic activities with the aim of identifying best practices, gaps in knowledge and barriers to further execution and to propose directions for futures research. The aim of the proposed network will be to develop a variety of innovative, adaptable and replicable approaches to sustainable sanitation, integrating appropriate low cost technologies in the context of community based management and their relevant governance, institutional frameworks and socio-economic constraints. The main outcome will be the development of a Participative Multi-stakeholder Sanitation Management Support Tool aimed for the end-users to be able to apply large scale sanitation concepts and technologies adapted to the different conditions prevailing in Africa.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › governance
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases
• humanities › other humanities › library sciences › public libraries

Keywords

• Africa urine excreta
• Sustainable
• sanitation West

Programme(s)

• FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• SUSTDEV-2005-3.II.3.7 - Sustainable sanitation in Africa

Call for proposal

FP6-2005-GLOBAL-4
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Funding Scheme

CA - Coordination action

Coordinator

VEREIN ZUR FOERDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN E.V.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: An der Karlstadt 10 ; BREMERHAVEN ; Germany
• Total cost: No data

Participants (18)

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG HARBURG

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Schwarzenbergstrasse 95 ; HAMBURG
• Total cost: No data

CENTRE REGIONAL POUR L'EAU POTABLE ET L'ASSAINISSEMENT A FAIBLE COUT-CREPA

Burkina Faso

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 27, rue de Wayalghin ; OUAGADOUGOU
• Total cost: No data

BIOAZUL S. L.

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Avda. Juan Lopez Penalver 21 ; CAMPANILLAS (MALAGA)
• Total cost: No data

BUREAU OUEST AFRICAIN D'APPUI ORGANISATIONNEL ET DE TECHNOLOGIES APPROPRIEES-BOATA

Mali

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Faso Kanou ; BAMAKO
• Total cost: No data

INTERNATIONAL ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bahnhofstrasse 2 ; WOLHUSEN
• Total cost: No data

INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Alliance House, 12 Caxton Street ; LONDON
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITE D'ABOBO-ADJAME

Côte d’Ivoire

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: ABIDJAN
• Total cost: No data

SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Arrheniusplan 2C ; UPPSALA
• Total cost: No data

COMMUNE DE MATAM

Senegal

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: MATAM
• Total cost: No data

EAWAG - EIDGENOESSISCHE ANSTALT FUR WASSERVERSORGUNG ABWASSERREINIGUNG UND GEWAESSERSCHUTZ

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Ueberlandstrasse 113 ; DUEBENDORF
• Total cost: No data

COMMUNE DE BOBO-DIOULASSO

Burkina Faso

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Place Ouizin Coulibaly ; BOBO-DIOULASSO
• Total cost: No data

ECOSAN CLUB

Austria

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Neulerchenfelderstr. 9/32 ; WIEN
• Total cost: No data

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KUMASI

Ghana

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: KUMASI
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Woodhouse Lane ; LEEDS
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITE DE OUAGADOUGOU

Burkina Faso

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 733, rue Luili-Peenda Zogona, secteur 13 ; OUAGADOUGOU
• Total cost: No data

STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Lilla Nygatan 1 ; STOCKHOLM
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DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUER TECHNISCHE ZUSAMMENARBEIT GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5 ; ESCHBORN
• Total cost: No data

TAMPEREEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO

Finland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Korkeakoulunkatu 10 ; TAMPERE
• Total cost: No data