Using EcoSan toilets for enhanced health in Bugesera District (Rwanda) Piloting EcoSan toilets in 2 communal villages
This project pilots EcoSan toilets in 2 communal villages. These are ‘model villages’ from which the technology will be promoted for replication. The compost is used as fertiliser in order to improve agricultural production.
Activities include:
• Training local technicians in the building and maintenance of Ecosan toilets.
• Conducting the community process of identifying initial beneficiaries.
• Training local technicians in hygiene promotion.
• Identifying 113 households in Bugesera to build Ecosan toilets and form part of 'model villages'.
• Building 113 Ecosan toilets.
Mission
1. Improved access to, and use of, sustainable sanitation facilities. 2. Replicability of EcoSan toilets is ensured through knowledge sharing for uptake and institutionalisation. 3. Support is provided to a further 60 households to replicate EcoSan toilets.Answer questions about the project
Connie Benjamin
conniebenjamin@wateraid.org
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Food security and productive sanitationRural areasSpecific to one or several countriesToilets or urinals (user interface)Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs) Other funding source or unspecifiedRuralPractitionersFertiliserInternational NGO
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Rwanda
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