Financial and Economic Analysis of Ecological Sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
There is a need for a conceptual framework which enables the identification of the full range of costs and benefits of sanitation systems in order to assist decision-makers and sponsors of development programmes in the design of policies and support programmes in Africa.
The study looks in detail at all the major costs and benefits of some relevant examples of EcoSan and a small number of other, more common, approaches in order to develop a conceptual framework which assists decision-makers in the choice of the most appropriate mix of sanitation systems.
The aim is for the results to be used to inform policy-makers and strategic programming in the sanitation sector about the financial implications of adopting different types of sanitation systems for small towns (as the primary focus area but with application to other settlement types) and to balance those implications with the economic costs and benefits of the systems, as well as to highlight the less tangible benefits and potential disadvantages from an economic perspective.
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