East Africa Practitioners’ Workshop on Pro-Poor Urban Sanitation and Hygiene

In March 2011, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health convened over 60 practitioners and researchers from East Africa in a workshop that discussed the progress and challenges faced by the sector in the promotion of effective pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene (S&H).

The rationale for undertaking this practitioners’ workshop on pro-poor urban S&H included three overlapping reasons:
1. It is increasingly recognised that S&H are priority areas for achieving sustainable
development
2. Unplanned settlements face major challenges, hence the increasing recognition of the need to address S&H for the urban poor
3. Institutional complexity of urban S&H is great yet capacity is lacking