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About PROVIDE project

The rapidly growing urban centres in Africa are facing major problems in clean water, sanitation and solid waste management, as also has been acknowledged in formulating the Millenium Development Goals. UN-Habitat has identified the Lake Victoria region as a priority area in achieving the Millennium Development Goals of halving the number of people without access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015.

The PROVIDE program focuses on and contributes to the improvement of sanitation and solid waste management in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) with an emphasis on the Lake Victoria Region. The program has started in 2006, and is funded by INREF, Wageningen University.

The academic research program is closely linked to a wide network of international agencies, national policy-makers, local municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and private enterprises. It aims to develop the knowledge base and the relevant networks for developing and applying an integrated approach – labeled modernized mixtures approach.

Access of the (urban) poor to viable and robust environmental infrastructures for the provision of water, sanitation and waste-services, should be regarded as key-issue for realizing the goal of sustainable development.

Annual PROVIDE workshop in Kampala, Uganda

In 2009, the annual PROVIDE workshop was hosted in the Imperial Royale Hotel on 22-24 June. The central topic of this event was (i) to advance knowledge on the application of research results on a system level and (ii) to discuss progress of the PROVIDE project and its research trajectories.
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PROVIDE workshop concluded in Arusha, Tanzania

The latest PROVIDE workshop was completed in the Impala Hotal in Arusha (Tanzania) on 6-8 October 2008. In a hospitable environment, the central topics of the workshop included the

At the Arusha workshop, the PROVIDE program also reached its half-time. The general achievements apperaed to be a solid and mutually advantageous cooperation amongst the participants and steadily progressing PhD research trajectories. At the worskshop progress in Phd researches showed that most projects have reached the halfway of the field work phase and a few have goen beyond thatactivities have reached halfway. 2008 has seen the first scientific results presented at the Sanitation Challenge conference and more publications are on the way. The Arusha workshop will handle scientific progress of the PhD researches. The central objective is to aide researchers with a strengthened base to both field work and scientific publication writing. The Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, the ‘PrOACT tool’) method will be revisited and socio-economic-instruments will be explained.

The workshop took place at the Impala Hotel in Arusha (Tanzania) on 6-8 October in 2008.

Lessons Learnt from the Sanitation Challenge Conference

- by Judith Tukahirwa

The PROVIDE project was an active co-organiser of the Sanitation Challenge conference in Wageningen last May. The conference aimed at a scientific discussion on new sanitation concepts and techniques, together with models of governance and experiences from all over the world.

The Environmental Policy Group has launched a new website about studying environmental governance at Wageningen University.
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Sanitation Challenge conference a success

The latest sanitation conference organized – Sanitation Challenge 19-21 May 2008 – proved a success. With over 120 international experts from both the academic field and from practice, many state-of-the art technological innovations and socio-political progresses were reported and discussed. Led by reputed key-note speakers, the conference featured valuable presentations bringing case studies from both the developing and the developed world. The main sanitation challenges in both the Northern and the Southern hemisphere were brought forward by the visitors representing over twenty nations. The conference proved to be one of the main events of 2008 for tackling problems and offering solutions for African sanitation. For the proceedings and other details on the conference settings see the Sanitation Challenge site.