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BORDA Laos Project Office
DEWATS SERVICE PACKAGES TOWARDS IMPROVED PUBLIC HEALTH AND PROTECTED FRESHWATER RESOURCES
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BORDA
Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association ⌐ Founded in1977 in Bremen, Germany ⌐ Regions: SEA, South Asia, SA, Latin America, Afghanistan ⌐ Donor | Coop.: BMZ | UNICEF, WSP, GIZ, JICA, AusAID, EU
BORDA Laos Project Office ⌐ MoU with MPWT/DHUP since February 2013 ⌐ Focus on: Technical interventions, GoL capacity building,
promotion and developing partnerships ⌐ Target: up-scaling DEWATS in 4 major cities in Laos and
Peri-urban areas
BORDA BNS in SEA
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Mission & Objectives
“The Mission of BORDA is to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged communities and to keep the environment intact through the expansion of
Basic Needs Services in the areas of decentralized sanitation, water and energy supply as well as wastewater and solid waste disposal.”
“Improved Sanitation for All”
Promoting improved public health within low income urban and peri-urban settlements, and the reduction of organic pollution of precious fresh water
sources for the benefit of the Lao people and nation
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DEWATS Service Packages
DEWATS: ⌐ Community Based Sanitation (CBS) ⌐ School Based Sanitation (SBS) ⌐ Sanitation for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) ⌐ Hospital Sanitation (HoSan) ⌐ Real Estate Sanitation (RESan)
Social Services: ⌐ Community Facilitation (RPA, meetings, CAP) ⌐ Health & Hygiene Education (H&H) ⌐ Operation & Maintenance Training (O&M) ⌐ Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Solid Waste Management: ⌐ Municipal Sludge Treatment Plants (MSTP) ⌐ Decentralized Solid Waste Management (DESWAM) Planning, implementation and monitoring: ⌐ Sanitation Mapping (SanMap) ⌐ Prefabrication (PreFab) ⌐ Quality Management ⌐ Monitoring & Evaluation (QMS &MonEv)
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DEWATS Modules
1) Settler (Removal of easily settlement solids)
4) Planted Gravel Filter (Removal of easily and more difficult degradable organic solids)
5) Polishing Ponds (Removal of suspended digested solids and active bacteria mass)
3) Anaerobic Baffled Reactor
(Removal of easily degradable organic solids)
2) Anaerobic Filter (Removal of easily degradable organic solids)
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DEWATS Modules
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DEWATS Modules
Community Based Sanitation in Thongkhankham Village, Vientiane Capital
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DEWATS Social Aspects Rapid Participatory Appraisal: Creation of shortlist through
transparent selection process identifying commitment
Community Facilitation: Shaping and accompanying the process of participation beneficiaries as partners of their own development
Set up of Community Based Organizations or School WASH Committees: Empowering the beneficiaries by creating structures responsibility and delegation of duties (O&M, $, H&H)
Health & Hygiene Education: Training of hygienic behavior inclusive the creation and dissemination of promotion material (posters, flip charts, handouts)
Operation & Maintenance Training: Training in Operation & Maintenance to enable the community/school to manage the performance of the plant
Co-management: supporting existing structures at local authority level filling the gap between abilities of the community and O&M as well as monitoring requirements
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DEWATS Components Technical: Customised design considers special conditions of
surrounding areas in (sub-) tropical regions; construction with local workers and materials [demand responsive]
Social: Composing of Action Plans including beneficiary based organisations, Operation and Maintenance (O&M) training, health and hygiene promotion, Health Impact Assessments (HIA) [participative]
Ecological: Protecting and fostering environment by wastewater treatment up to 90% without removing ecologically valuable nutrients (fertilisers) [ecological]
Economical: Multi-source financing (Joint ventures with government (5-10%), donors (62-84%), NGOs (20-25%) and beneficiaries (1-3%)) [multi-stakeholder]
Political: Tackling MDG #4 (decrease child mortality), #5 (eradicate malaria/dengue) and #7 ( access to basic sanitation); remains complementary to other wastewater treatment solution
Leagal: Conforms with international wastewater treatment standards
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DEWATS Fills the Gap!
Conventional centralized systems
DEWATS as people centered decentralized approaches
On site Sanitation systems
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Tobias R. Möller | Project Coordinator
[email protected] | www.borda-sea.org
THANK YOU!