OGDS, GEPALEF, SiMIRALENTA and CFCEM/GA presented new insights based on their work in Saint Louis, Abidjan, Antananarivo and Bukavu, in the form of 4 short films. Session 1 tackled women’s invisible sanitation work in Saint Louis and gendered taboos surrounding bodies & toilets in Abidjan. Session 2 explored opportunities and constraints for women in the…

By: Nelly Leblond, OVERDUE Research Fellow, UCL, first published as a DPU blog post, September 2021 The project “OVERDUE: Tackling the sanitation taboo across urban Africa” was launched in July 2020, several months into the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time no vaccine was yet in sight for the places and people central to the project:…

By: Ibrahim Bakarr Bangura, Sulaiman Foday Kamara, Braima Koroma, Robin Bloch, Freetown Team Researchers, June 2021 The Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC) organized a sanitation tour on the theme: ‘Just Sanitation Across African Cities in Freetown’ to celebrate World Toilet Day on November, 19th 2020. In the context of the OVERDUE project, the ‘Sanitation…

By: Catarina Mavila Magaia, Georgina Pagesptit, Ilundi Cabral, Sandra Roque, Beira Team Researchers, at COWI, June 2021. Photos by Januario Magaia, Inview Lda, 2020. Between December 2020 and February 2021, a “Sanitation Festival” was held in the Mozambican city of Beira with the aim of promoting good sanitation practices as part of the Project OVERDUE…

By: Richard Prosper, Wilbard Kombe, Tim Ndezi, Festo Dominick Makoba, Sheila Juma Salum, Pascale Hofmann, Mwanza Team Researchers, at Ardhi University, the Centre for Community Initiatives, and University College London, April 2021. The main objective of the sanitation festival event was to launch the OVERDUE Research Project in Mwanza City through engagements with local stakeholders…