There are different views on programme preparations, some say it consists of six stages, others say seven and some say four.
Published on: 02/08/2012
In SanPack, programme preparations covers six stages to prepare service delivery programmes for non-sewered sanitation to rural and urban populations:
Alternatively, the WELL project, a cooperation between WEDC, LSHTM and IRC, gives seven stages, with an example of an sanitation marketing project in Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanzania:
Another resource, Sanitation Marketing for Managers by HIP, AED and USAID, gives four stages:
A handbook for urban programmes was developed under the Basic Urban Services (BUS) project.
An IRC overview paper lists ten key areas of progress in sanitation development in South Asia: policy development, low-cost solutions, user choice, decentralization, mapping poverty areas, funding of demand creation, motivating users, local production and supply, phasing out ineffective subsidies, and going beyond toilet numbers to healthy sanitation practices.