Abstract
The rapidly growing urban centres in East Africa are facing major problems in clean
water provision, sanitation and solid waste management, as also has been acknowledged
in formulating the Millennium Development Goals. Solving this challenge requires
an integrated approach that deviates both from the well-known western large-scale
high-technological grid-based systems, as well as from the familiar small-scale, lowtech,
decentralized technologies. Such a modernized mixtures approach combines
(eco)technological, economic, social and governance dimensions of new environmental
infrastructures, simultaneously developed at different scales, against the background of
the specific context of East African cities.
This paper will present the conceptual framework for such an approach which forms the
basis of the academic research programme, PROVIDE, that is currently being undertaken
in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (2006-2011). This conceptual framework will constitute
the basis for an integrated approach for sanitation and solid waste management developed
in collaboration with and responding to the needs of the urban poor.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Event | 5th IWHA Conference, Tampere, Finland - Duration: 13 Jun 2007 → 17 Jun 2007 |
Conference/symposium
Conference/symposium | 5th IWHA Conference, Tampere, Finland |
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Period | 13/06/07 → 17/06/07 |