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NETSSAF - a multidisciplinary collaboration towards more sustainable sanitation in West Africa: main results
The MDG sanitation target is, at current progress, unlikely to be met in SubSaharan
African countries.
One of the most important reasons is the lack of capacities of the various stakeholders, active in the
sanitation field. To contribute in bridging the gap and in enhancing NorthSouth
and SouthSouth
cooperation, NETSSAF, a project funded by the European Commission, with its consortium of 19
partners has set up objectives aiming at creating synergies from different sectors to support the largescale
implementation of sustainable sanitation systems in periurban
and rural areas in West Africa.
Several valuable results have been obtained, which aim is to propose feasible solutions for the
achievement of MDGs. The consortium has worked hard and believes on the potentialities of the use of
such results β Dissemination and capacity development materials, systematization and characterization
of sanitation systems, Sanitation Yellow Pages, Participatory Planning Approach, to
boost progress in
sanitation coverage in Africa. Therefore, current discussions are on how to continue working together in
implementation and capacity building projects, as well as in the improvement of the materials developed
in NETSSAF (translation to French and local languages) and their further dissemination, that will lead
on the real implementation of the Sustainable Sanitation solutions