Sanitation Safety Planning as a Tool for enhancing the conception of a New Sanitation System in peri-urban areas of Iringa, Tanzania

Sanitation Safety Planning (‘SSP’) is a risk based management tool for sanitation systems, elaborated for the implementation of the WHO Guidelines of 2006 [1]. The SSP methodology wants to be tested within the project “Integrate Environmental Sanitation Concepts for Poor, Underserved and peri-urban areas of Iringa Municipality”, in Tanzania [Fig. 1], coordinated by the Italian NGO ACRA-CCS, and in which CeTAmb LAB is a technical partner. In the targeted project area (four wards), the 45% of latrines at household level is unimproved1. Thus, the proper management of wastewater and sludge is a priority in order to prevent risks of contamination and disease transmission. Through a consultative process, a proposal of sanitation system was elaborated by technical partners, focusing on the principles of closing the loop of the sanitation chain by reusing and recovering resources. Aim: this work represents the preliminary phase of a study to be conducted in the project area, aimed at applying a theoretical approach to validate the use of SSP principles in identifying risks and control measures in a proposed solution, thus enhancing the conception of a new sanitation system.