Marching together with a citywide sanitation strategy

56963 MARCHING TOGETHER WITH A CITYWIDE SANITATION STRATEGY January 2010 wsp water and sanitation program FOREWORD Experience shows that sanitation issues cannot be tackled in a piece-meal manner. The past gives us a sad portrait of sanitation planning with overlaps and interventions that were inappropriate and unsustainable. Sanitation must be addressed in a comprehensive manner and with multi-stakeholders. All parties involved in providing sanitation services in the city must be actively engaged in the process. Furthermore, sanitation development should not only focus on development of physical infrastructure. Many other efforts need to be done to ensure the benefits from such infrastructure can be sustained. Citywide sanitation strategy is a strategic planning process for sanitation sector development. In developing the strategy, several principles must be adopted. This includes mapping the existing condition using valid empirical data, which will serve as a foundation for devising the most effective strategy. This book intends to provide an overview of the principles of preparing a citywide sanitation strategy. In the end, I hope the citywide sanitation strategy can serve as a guide for all decision-makers to develop the city's sanitation sector into one that is all-inclusive and sustainable. Budi Hidayat Director for Settlement and Housing, BAPPENAS Head of the Technical Team for Sanitation Development  This book contains the principles a municipal government should consider before developing a citywide sanitation ABOUT THIS BOOK strategy. In this context, this strategy refers to a city's strategic mid-term sanitation development plan, which incorporates vision, missions, objectives and targets as well as specific strategies to improve sanitation services. Chapter 1 starts with an introduction of the background, objectives, concept, and the process of a city sanitation development, followed by a description of the position of the citywide sanitation strategy within the sanitation development planning process. The remaining chapters describe the steps to develop a citywide sanitation strategy. Chapters 2 to 6 explain the five major steps of the process: a) establishing a working group, b) city sanitation mapping, c) defining a sanitation development framework, d) preparing a strategy for sanitation services development, and e) preparing a strategy for development of non-technical aspects. Chapter 7 concludes the book with a series of follow-up activities for implementation upon approval of the citywide sanitation strategy. The book uses the phrase total sanitation services to mean the ideal level of sanitation services desired by a city. Such services should be accessible to all residents, be available city wide, be technically complete and sustainable, and not cause negative environmental impacts. This book is not a technical manual. Instead, readers will find a description of the principles of each strategy preparation phase. Many illustrations have been included from Phase 1 (2006 - 2008) implementation of the Indonesia Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP). One of ISSDP's purposes is to give assistance to six city governments to develop their own citywide sanitation strategies. During the two phases of implementation, ISSDP gained much valuable experience and input for improving the concept, substance and preparation of citywide sanitation strategies for Indonesian cities. This English version is an adaptation to the Indonesian original text published in 2008. In 2009, the Government of Indonesia started an accelerated sanitation development program (Percepatan Pembangunan Sanitasi Permukiman