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HCES: a new approach to environmental sanitation planning for urban areas

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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Christoph Luthi, Elizabeth Tilley
This paper presents the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation (HCES) approach, jointly developed by the WSSCC and Eawag/Sandec (Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries). The presentation explores its origins, theoretical foundations and the problems it seeks to address. HCES is a method which proposes to start the holistic planning process with household decisions on service needs, and then move outward from the household to the neighbourhood, town and upper levels of government. Thus, the link between community expression of needs and mobilization of resources to solve them and other inputs from higher up the line is assured. The second part of the paper explores a new approach to widening system and technology options for household-centred approaches by thinking as sanitation as a ’cradle-to-grave’ system rather than stand-alone technologies.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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WEDC Conference

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LUTHI, C. and TILLEY, E., 2008. HCES: a new approach to environmental sanitation planning for urban areas. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 46-49.

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© WEDC, Loughborough University

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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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2008

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This is a conference paper.

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WEDC_ID:10431

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  • en

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