Strengthening Health Technology Policy in Africa

Water and Environmental Sustainability

Biotechnology Policy in Africa

Strengthening National ICT Policy in Africa

Science and Technology/Knowledge for development

Youth Programme

Research in Agriculture and Innovation Systems

Research on "Ability and Willingness to Adopt Ecological Sanitation as a Water and Environmental Conservation Technology: the case for peri-urban communities of Kampala, Uganda" by James Kakooza and Dave Khayangayanga

Forty percent of Kampala's population lives in slums with severe water shortages and seriously polluted environments which are primarily wetlands prone to flooding.

In addition, it has been found that untreated effluence from these slums is discharged into Lake Victoria endangering human health and the ecosystem.

This study seeks to introduce Ecological Sanitation ("ecosan") technologies as alternatives to flush toilets, which use a lot of water, and pit latrines which potentially contaminate surface and ground water.

This study will research the ability and willingness of slum dwellers, local leaders and policy makers to support the adoption, transfer and use ecosan technologies.

Recommendations will inform the Kampala City Council, policy makers in the Ministry of Health and other environmental sanitation stakeholders to effect enabling water and sanitation policies that promote the implementation of ecosan technologies in peri-urban communities in Uganda.