Mar 5, 2016 - Up to 94% use pit latrine ... 98.6% ownership; mostly traditional pit latrines ... Recommendation: Sensitisation on additive effectiveness. 8 ...
Knowledge, attitudes and practices on faecal sludge management among slum dwellers in Salisbury Lines in Mzuzu City, Malawi. Khumbo Kalulu, Edward Chikhwenda & Grant Kululanga
03/05/16
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Why should we care? Diarrhoea Helminth infections Malnutrition Disease burden straining service delivery Poverty cycle for the poor 60% of urban population in informal settlements Up to 94% use pit latrine Poor FSM risk to whole urban 2
FSM Chain
Collection
Emptying & transportation
Treatment
Safe disposal or use
Economic Social Technical Institutional 3
SRFA Project Study Sites
Salisbury Lines study Objective
Salisbury Lines
• Knowledge, attitudes and practices in FSM Study methods • Cross sectional study
Results – Latrine ownership • 98.6% ownership; mostly traditional pit latrines • Challenge: Emptying is limited • Recommendation: Need of low cost options of lining pits
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Results – Latrine siting • 50% knew proper relative siting to water sources • Challenge: How to practise with limited land? • Opportunity: Communities might easily welcome interventions
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Results – Filled up pits • Burying and abandoning (72.6%) • Challenge: Technology and economic limitations Increased interaction between water sources and latrines • Recommendation: Need of low cost options to allow emptying and pit recomissioning 7
Results – Additives • Odour control (85.8%) and volume reduction (21.7%) • Ash the main additive (82.3%) • Challenge: Hardening of sludge difficult to empty Need for treatment for some chemicals before use Some studies found additives don’t reduce volume significantly • Recommendation: Sensitisation on additive effectiveness 8
Results – Non faecal matter in latrines • Paper, cobwebs, vegetative waste, cloth, plastic, glass and metals • Challenges: Increased latrine filling up rates Emptying – (fishing out increasing cost) Treatment – (segregation increasing cost) • Recommendation: Sensitisation on proper use of latrines 9
