Identifying and Addressing Integrity Risks to Strengthen Citywide Inclusive Sanitation

Citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) aims to address the total sanitation needs of city residents. Unlike usual urban sanitation approaches, it focuses not only on piped sewerage systems but looks at different systems (sewered and non-sewered) and suppliers (public, households, private, and informal vendors) that can ensure service throughout the city. In many cases, city-level integrity failures hinder the expansion of sanitation services to all, even in CWIS approaches. These failures are often misunderstood or ignored yet they weaken service delivery, hamper the upgrading of infrastructure, erode public and household health, and deepen the oppression of women. The Water Integrity Network (WIN) is collaborating with the Eastern and Southern African Water and Sanitation Regulatory Association (ESAWAS), the Department of Public Health and Engineering, Bangladesh (DPHE), and the International Training Network Centre of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (ITN-BUET) to better understand these integrity issues and the measures needed and effective in addressing them. Special attention is being given to the role of regulators and regulatory mechanisms. The aim is improve CWIS implementation. Following initial research on integrity risks and tools across the sanitation value chain (this report), a methodology was developed for de jure and de facto assessments of regulatory frameworks for sanitation with a focus on integrity. This methodology has been used in four countries to date: Bangladesh, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia.