By Catarina Mavila, Prof Wilbard Kombe, Emmanuel Osuteye, Nadine Coetzee, Angèle Koue and Prof Julian Walker  Reflections from visits to 2 faecal sludge treatment plants in Tamil Nadu with TNUSSP  For those of us who are lucky enough, sewage is a hidden system, once you flush the toilet it disappears, out of sight out of…

By Pascale Hofmann, Nelly Leblond, Ana Leao, Astrid Mujinga, Tim Ndezi and Ibrahim Bakarr Bangura In February 2023 the team of the research project OVERDUE – tackling the sanitation taboo across urban Africa embarked on a knowledge exchange visit to India to learn from the Indian Institute for Human Settlement’s Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support…

by Associação FACE (Márcia Saica, Hélder Domingos e Canivete Américo) no trabalho de campo, recolha de informação e Fotos;  Austral Consultoria, Lda. (Catarina Simões Mavila e Ana Leão) na análise dos dados e escrita. Contexto da pesquisa O Projecto “OVERDUE: enfrentando o tabu do saneamento na África urbana” implementado em algumas cidades Africanas como Mwanza…

By: Nadine Coetzee and Nelly Leblond, with contributions from Adriana Allen, Claudy Vouhé and Julia Wesely What is the point of celebrating a daily need once a year? International Days – for women, children, toilets – can seem paradoxical. Born out of the recognition of critical social struggles, they hope to raise awareness and catalyse…

Autora: Catarina Mavila Magaia, Austral Consultoria, OVERDUE Research Fellow of the Beira team O projecto OVERDUE investiga as desigualdades de saneamento na África urbana, nas as cidades de Mwanza (Tanzania), Bukavu (DRC), Saint Louis (Senegal),  Abidjan (Costa do Marfim), Antananarivo (Madagáscar), Bukavu​ (República Democrática do Congo) e Beira (Moçambique). No caso de Moçambique, a cidade…