This project will introduce two new innovative sanitation options (tiger worm and urine diversion toilets) to Jewi camp. These provide waste to value potential and increase the life span of toilets, thereby reducing the long term costs of sanitation programmes by reducing emptying and replacement of latrines.

In 2014 Leitchour and Nip Nip camps were flooded during the long rains and it was critical to relocate those refugees from the flooded camps to a safer place. Thus, a new camp, Jewi, was established in March and April 2015. The relocation to this camp started in mid May 2015. A total of 47,865 refugees consisting of 11,182 households were relocated to Jewi camp.

Oxfam is responsible for the intake, treatment plant, pressure main and system one central storage tanks. Under the proposed project, urine diversion and tiger worm toilets will be implemented under an operational research environment. These will have immediate benefits for 1428 PoC (each toilet will be shared by two families) in 2016 and 1272 in 2017. This activity aims to implement at scale and validate alternative sanitation solutions which can provide lower cost solutions in areas of high water table, rocky ground and/or where latrine emptying or desludging is problematic.

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Technology comparisonsEmergency and reconstructionProduct design and engineeringSpecific to one or several countriesToilets or urinals (user interface)Treatment of wastewater or greywaterResource recovery Renewable energies and climate change (WG3)Sanitation systems and technology options (WG4)Emergency and reconstruction situations (WG8)Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs) Vermifilters, vermifilter toiletsMulti-lateral and International Monetary FundCamps (emergency or longer term)PractitionersFertiliserInternational NGO

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