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Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eau-10.1177_09562478221149915 for On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka by Andri Heidler, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal, Mahbub Ul-Alam, Christoph Lüthi and Olivier Crevoisier in Environment & Urbanization

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-4-eau-10.1177_09562478221149915 for On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka by Andri Heidler, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal, Mahbub Ul-Alam, Christoph Lüthi and Olivier Crevoisier in Environment & Urbanization

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-3-eau-10.1177_09562478221149915 for On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka by Andri Heidler, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal, Mahbub Ul-Alam, Christoph Lüthi and Olivier Crevoisier in Environment & Urbanization

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-eau-10.1177_09562478231175041 for The lack of organizational learning in slum upgrading success: the case of the Kenya Informal Settlement Improvement Programme 2011–2020 by George Kiambuthi Wainaina, Bernhard Truffer, Christoph Lüthi and Peris Korir Mang’ira in Environment & Urbanization

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-eau-10.1177_09562478221149915 for On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka by Andri Heidler, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal, Mahbub Ul-Alam, Christoph Lüthi and Olivier Crevoisier in Environment & Urbanization

Supplemental Material for Sanitation potpourri: Criteria for planning mix of sanitation systems for citywide inclusive sanitation by Anant Mitra, Abishek S Narayan, Christoph Lüthi in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Community involvement is recognized as a core condition for success in informal settlements upgrading. However, the wider ramifications of this requirement are not well understood. Mostly, community involvement has been equated with a narrow interpretation of participation, largely focusing on the elicitation of dwellers’ preferences at the planning stages. We argue that this approach overlooks the actual needs for livelihoods reconstruction in the course of upgrading. To better conceptualize these requirements, we propose to analyse the time–space configuration of practices, which we frame as constituting Oscillating Domestic Spaces. The concept illustrates the contingent nature of daily activities to meet livelihoods needs and how people navigate these conditions. Challenges associated with reconstructing new domestic spaces are illustrated using the Kenyan Slum Upgrading (Kensup) initiative in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings suggest that an inadequate understanding and consideration of livelihoods reconstruction reduced legitimacy of the initiative, resulted in rapid deterioration of physical amenities and relegated most of the alleged ‘beneficiaries’ deeper into poverty. We suggest that, for successful settlements upgrading, livelihoods reconstruction should be a core process in the planning, implementation and post-implementation stages.

This policy brief presents the main results of a three-country study on Quality Indicators of Shared Sanitation (QUISS). QUISS assessed when shared sanitation is acceptable and what is needed to establish minimal acceptability requirements. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected in Ghana, Kenya and Bangladesh in 2019. This brief highlights the research findings for Bangladesh and provides recommendations for strengthening the acceptability, functionality and sustainability of Bangladesh’s shared sanitation facilities in low-income urban settlements., Research for Policy

Research for Policy

Research for Policy

This policy brief presents the main results of a three-country study on Quality Indicators of Shared Sanitation (QUISS). QUISS assessed when shared sanitation is acceptable and what is needed to establish minimal acceptability requirements. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected in Ghana, Kenya and Bangladesh in 2019. This brief highlights the research findings for Ghana and provides recommendations for strengthening the acceptability, functionality and sustainability of Ghana’s shared sanitation facilities in low-income urban settlements., Research for Policy

Recent developments in high- and middle-income countries have exhibited a shift from conventional urban water systems to alternative solutions that are more diverse in source separation, decentralization, and modularization. These solutions include nongrid, small-grid, and hybrid systems to address such pressing global challenges as climate change, eutrophication, and rapid urbanization. They close loops, recover valuable resources, and adapt quickly to changing boundary conditions such as population size. Moving to such alternative solutions requires both technical and social innovations to coevolve over time into integrated socio-technical urban water systems. Current implementations of alternative systems in high- and middle-income countries are promising, but they also underline the need for research questions to be addressed from technical, social, and transformative perspectives. Future research should pursue a transdisciplinary research approach to generating evidence through socio-technical "lighthouse" projects that apply alternative urban water systems at scale. Such research should leverage experiences from these projects in diverse socio-economic contexts, identify their potentials and limitations from an integrated perspective, and share their successes and failures across the urban water sector.

Social network analysis (SNA) is a versatile and increasingly popular methodological tool to understand structures of relationships between actors involved in governance situations. Given the complexity of the set of stakeholders involved in the governance of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and the diversity of their interests, this article proposes SNA to the WASH sector. The use of SNA as an appropriate diagnostic tool for planning Citywide Inclusive Sanitation is explored. Missing data is a major problem for SNA in the studies of governance situations, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, a novel validation methodology for incomplete SNA data, relying on information from internal and external experts is proposed. SNA and the validation method is then applied to study the governance of decentralized wastewater treatment in four cities of India. The results corroborate key differences between mega and secondary cities in terms of institutions, community engagement and overall sanitation situation including aspects of decentralized wastewater treatment plants, based on the city types., Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, ISSN:2296-665X