Back to basics: A Community-Based Environmental Health Project in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia

Author(s)
Stephens, C.
Publication language
English
Pages
7pp
Date published
01 Jan 1991
Publisher
Environment and Urbanization
Type
Programme/project reviews
Keywords
Capacity development, Community-led, Disasters, Epidemics & pandemics, Urban, Water, sanitation and hygiene
Countries
Liberia
Link
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095624789100300113

This is a case study of an environmental health project unusual in the context of donor supported urban planning in Third World countries: is is small-scale, initiated by slum-dwellers and almost sustainable by them from its inception. West point slum dwellers planned and implemented a health project, not with health facilities, but in sanitation and waste disposal.