Hello WIN Team, and thank you for sharing this important piece of work. 

Almost a year since this post went up, I recognise that indeed there has been progress in developing policies and frameworks that recognize non-sewered sanitation as part of citywide inclusive sanitation, however, the translation into practice often lags behind. Do you happen to have new information on how implementation is progressing in the different contexts?

From my observations, a few aspects still need to be bridged, at least in the case of Zambia.

• Clear mandates and accountability structures between local authorities, utilities, and regulators to avoid overlaps or gaps especially at the ''people level''.
• Citizen engagement platforms (not very strong/ non existent), where residents are informed and can provide feedback or report integrity concerns, ensuring regulators are not operating in isolation.
• Capacity development for all, especially in understanding business models for FSM (faecal sludge management), so that integrity is upheld while enabling service expansion

Looking forward to the continued discussion and learning from others’ perspectives.

Regards,
Chaiwe

Hello,
we are currently doing research on integrity for citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS).

One step is to assess the regulatory environment for urban sanitation, look at major integrity failures, and examine regulatory mechanisms that can help to address them.

We started with a comparison of urban sanitation regulation in Bangladesh, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. We looked at regulation for non-sewered sanitation and CWIS. We also looked at broader regulatory instruments for integrity that apply to water and sanitation actors.
We see that though some progress has been made on inclusion and accountability for and through CWIS, there is much to do to enable regulators to effectively address the integrity issues that undermine both their work as regulators and service delivery generally.

We're keen to hear more form experts here about their experiences on regulation for CWIS, their knowledge of strong regulatory mechanisms for integrity that could be inspiration for others, and their views on the conclusions of our research.

The full reports are available here:
www.waterintegritynetwork.net/post/regul...n-integrity-and-cwis