Kampala’s informal and peri-urban settlements present multiple operational challenges, including inaccessible terrain, pits with high solid waste content, congestion at disposal sites, and social stigma among workers. Similar to Kisumu, findings…
Kisumu’s sanitation landscape consists of dense low-income settlements and peri-urban areas where accessibility, settlement density, high water table and transport distance to treatment facilities strongly influence pit emptying operations. The emerging message…
Kigali is characterized by hilly terrain and dense informal settlements, where around 60% of residents live in hard-to-reach areas. Exhauster trucks are often unable to reach households and the hilly terrain…
Lusaka’s unplanned settlements are characterized by poorly defined access roads and encroachment on road reserves. These access constraints, together with mixed containment types, influence technology choice. When comparing the Pupu pump (a new technology…
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