Project "Safe Sanitation, Health and Dignity"

Implementation of dry urine diverting toilets and waste water soil filters for schools and private households.

Donors / Program: Fondation Ensemble, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Issues: Water, Health, Sanitation
Duration: 10/2007 - 09/2010

A three year ecological sanitation and organic waste composting program for poor rural communities that is implemented in the framework of "Water and sanitation" Program in the cooperation with Women of Europe for Common Future (WECF) with sponsorship of private French Foundation Ensemble and Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The project is co-financed by the WECF MFS-Program Empowerment and Local Action which has started in January 2008.

Ukrainian participants of the project: "MAMA-86-Artemivs’k", "MAMA-86-Mykolaiv", "MAMA-86-Nizhyn", "MAMA-86-Sevastopol", "MAMA-86-Ternopil", "MAMA-86-Feodosiya", "MAMA-86-Yaremche", "MAMA-86-Poltava", "MAMA-86- Nova Kahovka". Project is coordinated by the Central office of "MAMA-86" in Kyiv.

The main goal of the project is to provide sustainable and affordable solutions for improvement of sanitary conditions in households and schools.

The project will focus on three areas:

• implementation and awareness raising on water source protection, safe sanitation, organic waste management, hygiene and health,
• capacity building: creating an enabling environment for replication through applied training for local builders, citizens and pupils,
• up-scaling: through the publication of case studies in cooperation with a Ukrainian University and a market analysis to identify potential enterprises interested in local production of ecosan equipment.

The project will implement dry urine diverting toilets, wastewater and organic solid waste treatment systems for schools and private households in 10 regions of the Ukraine: Kyiv, Sevastopol, Feodosia, Yaremche, Ternopil, Mykolayiv, Nizhyn, Artemivsk, Nova Kakhovka and Poltava.

The ecological sanitation approach of recycling the nutrients - following WHO safety guidelines - enables the use of sanitized urine and sanitized faeces in agriculture.

Demonstration gardens will be implemented in cooperation with the villagers to show the use of sanitized products as fertilizer.

The measures will be carried out for the implementation of all project goals.

The project is a continuation of work for the ecosan implementation in Ukraine and is based on the previous experience and knowledge received during Water Campaign of NGO "MAMA-86" and MATRA-Project "Co-operation for Sustainable Rural Development, Involving citizens and local authorities in rural Ukraine in improvement of drinking water, sanitation and agriculture", carried out in cooperation with WECF.

For contacts:

Tsvetkova Ganna
Water Campaign Coordinator
Academisian Yangelya Str. 4, of. 126,
NGO “MAMA-86”
Tel.:(044) 456 13 38/453 47 96
Факс (044) 453 47 96
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