An Overview Of Our Solution
Solution title:
BUILDING COLLECTIVE TOILET SEWAGE SYSTEM AND PUBLIC TOILET PITS TOWARDS CLEANER AND HEALTHIER WATER ECOSYSTEM IN TANDALE WARD IN DAR ES SALAAM
Following the environmental issues and the effect of climate change to the people the project aims to build the collective toilet sewage systems directed to the universal toilet pits for easy waste management. This program will help to combat outbreaks of infectious diseases like cholera, typhoid, malaria, fungus, urinary tract infections (UTI) and so many others that have been reported season after season. These diseases erupt due to poor toilets sewage systems and presence of too many low quality toilet pits in the streets in Tanzania that are often affected by rain and floods and have led to unsecured toilet service and spread of contamination of bacteria and viruses to the water sources.
- Population Impacted: 200,000
- Continent: Africa
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Análise de contexto
The project will be operated in Tandale ward in Dar es salaam. It is a place where the population is concentrated to small and medium businesses, there’s economic and social integration of people but in this ward there’s poor and old sewage systems that cannot endure during the rain seasons. A lot of wastes from toilet chambers are taken and moved by water on the surface and some enter the houses, shops and disturb the communication and transportation systems. The geographical setting of this area is not friendly to the sewage system leading to blockage of waste sewers and road culverts and therefore a universal toilet sewage system will help to manage toilets wastes collected in a single street toilet pit.
Descreva a solução técnica que você queria que o público-alvo adotasse
The project will use public sewage and public pits for toilet that will help to separate solid waste from water and make it easier to manage and recycling. The households will build their own washrooms and instructed to channel the waste water to the main public sewage system that moves towards the universal toilet pit constructed within the street or ward. This action helps to reduce unnecessary land excavation and save the soil for other productive use.
Descreva sua intervenção comportamental.
This project will raise awareness to the people in the area to construct better toilet facilities, improved sanitation and assured toilet services that are friendly to environment and free from diseases outbreak. Through the local government intervention in this program, peoples’ behavior will be changed from ignorance to huge investments on providing proper toilet services that require low cost in maintenance. Each household will be required to pay low contribution to the local government monthly or yearly.
Alavancas Comportamentais Utilizadas
Conforme necessário, explique como você utilizou a(s) alavanca(s) com mais detalhes.
The key drivers to this project will be emotional appeals, social influences and rules & regulations;
Emotional appeals; people will be motivated to change their toilet status through seminars, campaigns and awareness flyers will be provided to increase education.
Social influences: social influencers like musicians, religious leaders and school sport games will be used to raise awareness and win more community engagement.
Rules and Regulation: the water pollution is a public health issue that needs to be addressed by the government and environmentalists. With the intervention of the local administrative government each household or business entity will be required by rules and regulations to build proper toilets and direct the waste to the public toilet systems for management.
Descreva sua implementação
This project will be done in partnership with the government through the ministry of health and the ministry of construction in Tanzania and the local government of the respective area whereby a public toilet pit will be constructed. This solution plans to support the efforts of the government in order to make revolution on toilets and environment preservation systems, by designing better toilet sewage systems that collect waste water from homes and towns to one underground public pit that has capacity to separate solid wastes and water by allowing waste water to disappear in the soil. This will help to reduce concentration of poor toilets in towns, in the markets and slum areas and also keeping the land for other productive activities. Finally, we will be able to avoid spreading of contaminations to water and make toilet service accessible to everyone.
Projects activities:
Requesting project permit from the government
Researching to identify areas that have poor toilet sewage systems.
Campaigning and requesting community engagement to the project through medias.
Providing training and seminars to the technicians on how to construct better sewage systems.
Building collective toilet sewage systems and public toilet pits.
Expected obstacles and how to overcome them;
Lack of enough open spaces in the towns and cities. We will insist the government to omit unnecessary buildings in order to allocate public toilet pits.
Delayed contributions from the inhabitants. The monthly contributions to the public toilet sewage system will be affordable and other stakeholders will be requested to support. For example the local government, NGOs and companies.
Key success factor:
This project aims at implementing the national development policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) No. 3 that states “Good health and well-being” and No.6 that states “Clean water and sanitation”, therefore we hope to gain a great support from stakeholders.
Descreva a liderança para sua solução. Quem está liderando a implementação?
The implementing team in this project includes youth aged 30 years and below who will work in the field activities that are recognized by TTREPO, technical experts necessary for supervision during the construction process, logistics officers, financial management team and information and communication technology officers. Also the key local government leaders will be observer during the implementation process.
Compartilhe alguns dos principais parceiros ou partes interessadas envolvidos no desenvolvimento e implementação de sua solução.
The project coordinates with different partners and personnel in order to make a huge advancement. Some of the key partners expected are the local government leaders, ward health officer, citizens, Medias such as TV, radio and newspapers, government ministries and departments responsible for health, regional planning and environment, international organizations and corporations for water ecosystem and sanitation, local banks, industries and the TTREPO’s as well.
Quem adotou o(s) comportamento(s) desejado(s) e em que grau? Inclua uma explicação de como você mediu uma mudança de comportamen
The project will be a key driver to behavior change among the people in Tanzania. The project of this kind has been unique and not yet implemented. People have been ignoring toilet services for so long because of the cost to dig toilet pits and many do not have secured toilets. This project will research to evaluate the size of households connected to the public toilet pits.
Como você impactou a poluição da água? Por favor, seja específico e inclua a metodologia de medição quando relevante.
The project aims to support the government to plan and build better toilet systems and preserving environment towards cleaner and healthier water ecosystem. This will help to achieve better health and wellbeing of the people living in the cities, towns and villages. This project upon its fulfillment will help to remove contamination to clean water supply systems, rivers, lakes and ocean than ever before. There will be no more exposed wastes to the ground, in the roads and markets. No more individual excavations for toilet pits therefore the soil will be reserved necessary to maintain natural ecosystem.
Como sua solução impactou os desafios de equidade (incluindo raça, gênero, etnia, classe social/renda ou outros)?
This project provide a vital solution to all people including school children, physical disabled people and benefit the low income earners to access better toilets infrastructures at very low cost. The project focuses promoting investments and creating proper working environments that are secured with better toilet services for businessmen, travellers and sport.
Quais foram alguns co-benefícios ambientais?
This project enables recycling of solid waste and water for reuse in irrigation schemes and making fertilizers. More land spaces will be saved due to reduced individual’s soil excavation for toilet pits. Also the project will help to prevent waste water to flow on the roads and entering the houses due to proper covering of the sewage pipes.
Quais foram alguns co-benefícios do desenvolvimento sustentável?
The project will serve to keep the environment cleaner and ensuring healthier water ecosystem. The project will be sustainable to the entire country, progressing from a street to wards, districts and regions in Tanzania to ensure that every household or office access better toilet infrastructure that preserve environment in whatever the season is.
Sustentabilidade: Descreva a sustentabilidade econômica de sua solução.
The financial structure of the project depends on contribution and payment from all stakeholders. The local government, citizens, business enterprises and other stakeholders will contribute to the construction of public toilet pits and sewage system in their local administrative area. Each household and office that uses these systems will have to pay small amount of money for system construction, repair and maintenance per month or yearly. This action will make this solution sustainable from one generation to another.
Retorno do investimento: quanto custou para implementar essas atividades? Como seus resultados acima se comparam a esse investim
The project estimates $450,000 for implementation in Tandale Street. However the cost will vary depending on the nature of geographical location of other places.
Como poderíamos replicar com sucesso essa solução em outro lugar?
This project is more needed in the developing countries whereby toilets sewage systems are well structured. We can repeat the same mistake if we do not plan and transform the way we think. Government use a lot of money on remedial actions that could be avoided by installing proper town sewage systems that are universal an accessible to every household. Since the government builds the public dumps for disposing solid wastes, can also invest in constructing possible public toilet pits to ease waste water management and meet the sustainable development goals get cleaner and healthier water ecosystem. Private toilet pits have proved failure due to high cost of maintenance per household and are of low quality to endure bad weather such heavy rain and floods.