Sanitation interventions in Ethiopia involve many stakeholders, including different local, regional and
federal government offices, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, private
sector companies, religious, political and kebele leaders as well as communities. Not only do the
relationships in this large network of actors affect the activities of each stakeholder in their functions, but
they also influence their interventions as a whole. Interviews with various representatives of stakeholders
involved in the sanitation sector in Arba Minch were conducted in order to analyze their roles, share of
responsibilities, problems and a potential for better cooperation. In particular, involvement of the private
sector in sanitation interventions has been neglected. The planned establishment of a multi-stakeholders
regional forum that would gather various actors and enable them to share experience, ideas and
cooperate on a regional scale seems to be a good way to start
