Developing Guidelines for Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems The development of National Guidelines was one key instrument to facilitate a focused dialogue, for knowledge management, to create awareness, acceptance and capacities. These Guidelines are a reference for more detailed legislation, standards and manuals

Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association
BORDA

In this project the performance of Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS) was evaluated, policies and guiding documents were reviewed and National Guidelines were developed in collaboration with key sector actors. The Guidelines were endorsed by the Ministry of Water (Tanzania). In order to operationalize the Guidelines trainings based on the Guidelines were developed and facilitated and the Guidelines were presented on national conferences. In 2021 the Guidelines were translated to Kiswahili. In the third Phase of the project in 2022 the Guidelines were presented on the National Scientific Water Conference (Maji – Scientific Conference) and a one-day conference on Wastewater and Faecal Sludge Management was facilitated to assess the progress since the development of the Guidelines and to develop key next steps for scaling decentralised sanitation solutions.

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Developing and operationalizing Guidelines for decentralized wastewater solutions in Tanzania

Guidelines for the Application of Small-Scale, Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (English)

Guidelines for the Application of Small-Scale, Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (Kiswahili))

Development of Guidlines (BORDA, 2018)

Development of Guidlines (UNEP, 2021)

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems and Sanitation in Developing Countries – A practical guide

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Tim Fettback
fettback@borda-africa.or.tz

Laura Bright-Davies
bright-davies@borda-africa.or.tz

Riccardo Zennaro
riccardo.zennaro@un.org

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Capacity developmentTechnology comparisonsPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesProduct design and engineeringGenderSpecific to one or several countriesTreatment of wastewater or greywaterResource recovery Enabling environment and institutional strengtheningDecentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS)Energy: biogasWater (irrigation, process, other)International NGOHighlight on Gender Theme Page

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Tanzania United Republic of

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