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Adaptation and innovation in sanitation planning: Exploring technical and societal readiness of alternative nutrient-recovery systems

Managing the globally sanitation crisis is one of the major challenges facing our generation, with significant impacts on the SDGs. The World Health Organization estimates that 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to basic sanitation facilities posing severe risks to public health and the environment. At the same time, biogeochemical flows of nitrogen and phosphorous have been pointed out as a critical planetary boundary that needs to be properly managed to assure a sustainable future. There is pressing need for innovations in the sanitation sector which improve nutrient-recovery and provide services for all. There is a growing number of nutrient-recovery technologies available, but a majority are still in the formative phase of development and not widely applied. This may be because implementing these solutions means rethinking not just the technical treatment process, but the collection system, user interactions and management organisations. Improving the capacity of our waste systems to recover valuable resource means transforming some of its core structures. The aim of this project is to explore opportunities for scaling-up alternative systems for nutrient-recovery from wastewater in the Ugandan context through 1) investigating the technical and market readiness of these systems, 2) studying the readiness of society to accept alternative systems, and 3) evaluating serious gaming as an innovative planning technique for opening transformation pathways within the sector.

Project ID

SE-0-SE-29-2016-06297-285-43082

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

D02 - Other technical assistance

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Sweden

Extending

The Swedish Research Council

Implementing

Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

CRS code	%
Research/scientific institutions (43082)	100.0