2.3 From Policy to Action

Learning objective: become acquainted with regulations and how to interpret them and translate them into local action

Who should decide what is

permitted?

On what grounds?

Top-down vs. Bottom-up

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping University, Sweden

Policies = stating aims and ideals

• ’No water body is to be degraded’

• ’High protection of human health and ecosystems’

• ’Cost recovery’

• ’Pro-poor policies’

• ’Water for All’ and ’Water is a human right’

• ’Sanitation by All?’

• ’No open defecation’

• ’Recirculation of nutrients and zero emissions’, etc.

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping University, Sweden

The policy should be SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic/resource-related/result-oriented, and Time-bound.

Governance guided by principles • Outcome-based regulation: The regulation is not prescriptive

about the technology or process itself, but about the overall environmental outcomes of the process.

• Precautionary principle: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty is enough reason for postponement of the activity.

• Deal with pollution at the source: If a pollution situation is identified, the source of pollution should be addressed rather than the end-of-pipe result.

• Polluter pays: The polluter should in general bear the cost of pollution prevention, control and remediation.

• Recirculation: Recycling of waste products

• Risk assessment: A risk assessment of the pressure and impacts guide the actions to be taken and to be monitored

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

Strategies connect policy with resources

• Do the right thing – effective (address problems of the chemical society)

• Do the thing right - efficient (focus on man-made wastewater, not end-of-pipe)

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

Good governance is always helpful

Some ongoing strategic shifts

Operation, maintenance

Emphasis on hardware and infrastructure

Emphasis on software and local resources

Demand-drivenSupply-driven approach

Individual subsidies seen as drivers for change

Market-based solutions

Relatively high-cost tech recommendations

Construction

Local resources

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

Sanitation arrangements from a management point of view

Turn-key management where the utility (private or public) provides the service and the residents just pay the bill

Own-key management where single households or housing associations initiate, build and control, while they put to use available skills, materials, and other local resources

Turn-key Own-key

WC &sewerage

Dry urine-diverting toilet

Dug latrine Aqua privyJan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

The key question is about control, not decentralisation. Two extremes:

Market-based sanitation strategy

’One stop shopping’ display at ring producer: visualising a pour-flush toilet with a septic tank

Courtesy of Jeff Chapin,designer Odeo, USA

Households

Retailers

Wholesalers

Manufacturers (produce cement,

brick, plastic pipes, steel, etc.

ceramic...)

Edu. & Marketing Services (e.g. health

education, info on sanitation products &

suppliers)

Construction Services

Credit Services (formal and informal)

Transportation Services

The Market

Social marketing - nothing strange

Urban exhibition of toilet options in full scale and models in Trichy, India

Plumber’s sanitation shop in Sweden

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

Orangi sanitation project in Karachi, Pakistan

Part of the Orangi area in Karachi

in a flat, flood-prone area

Digging for sewers in Orangi

Ready underground sewer in a lane in Orangi constructed by self-help work under the guidance of the OPP project

Source: Pervaiz, Rahman and Hassan,

2008

Guiding policy of a municipal council

The council shall be generous in granting house connections to the communal water supply

on the condition that the discharge system for wastewater from the premises is of good standard

- all new building plans shall include a clause on urine to be discharged separately in new houses and in houses that are being rehabilitated

- laying a separate urine pipe from the house to the border of the premises is the responsibility of the property owner

- the municipality is responsible for the emptying, storing, and disposal of the urine

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden

Decentralised water supply and sewerage

Jan-Olof Drangert, Linkoping university, Sweden

One policy and two strategies and their impacts in two cities and their rural hinterland

Centralised water and sewerage

Managing sanitation through effective policies, strategies and sustainable arrangements

• Match policies with the level of governance• Coordinate responsibilities for water,

wastewater, stormwater, sanitation and solid waste

• Devolve responsibilities to the lowest level starting with what the household can do

• Make sure the resources are adequate to perform the tasks at the intended level

• Reuse recovered resources (water, urine, faeces, organics, etc.) on soil, not in water

Jan-Olof Drangert. Linköping university, Sweden