The OVERDUE team has been designing and implementing strategic interventions to advance just sanitation across the 7 cities.
An Activist’s Glossary for Just Sanitation
The OVERDUE team and co-learning participants produced a political glossary to capture the diversity of terms used in sanitation. Explore it in English, Portuguese, French and Swahili!
From over 1 million residents, 0.3% are served by a 4 km long sewerage network. The rest use on-site facilities, 75% of these are unimproved pit latrines.
Beira – Mozambique
Over 500,000 residents, of which 90% are off-grid, and 10% connected to a 97 km sewerage network. Numerous on-site latrines and tanks were damaged by Cyclone Idai in 2019.
Mwanza – Tanzania
More than 1 million residents, with 23% connected to a sewer network. In informal settlements, a 5.4 km simplified sewerage system coexists with pit latrines and septic tanks.
Valorising gendered sanitation practices and infrastructures in conditions of land and tenure insecurity
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Valoriser les pratiques et les infrastructures d’assainissement liées au genre dans des conditions de rareté des terres et d’insécurité foncière
Bukavu
Providing gender-sensitive public toilets in the markets of Bukavu, DRC ·
Fournir des toilettes publiques sensibles au genre dans les marchés de Bukavu, RDCC
Saint-Louis
Making visible women’s (unpaid) work in the sanitation sector in Saint-Louis
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Rendre visible le travail (non rémunéré) des femmes dans le secteur de l’assainissement à Saint-Louis
Abidjan
Networking actors to develop a circular sanitation economy
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Mise en réseau des acteurs pour développer une économie circulaire de l’assainissement
