Project Information

This one year pilot project is carried out in the Aguié province in southern Niger. The project aims to involve 700 households (8 villages) in the recycling of nutrients and organic matter from human excreta via simple urinals and composting toilets. IFAD is the main donor of the project. CREPA is implementing the project in collaboration with PPILDA (a local development program financed by IFAD) and SEI’s EcoSanRes II program.

The project objectives are:

1. PSS (Productive Sanitation Systems) are accepted and have measurable effects on food production in the pilot communities (comparative analysis with other fertilizers or non fertilizers)

2. Other actors in the field of sanitation/agriculture integrate the concepts of PSS in their work and policies

The vision is that positive results from the project in Aguié will stimulate interest and enable uptake of the productive sanitation approach by PPILDA and other IFAD programs as well as by other organizations in the field of sanitation, agriculture, food security and poverty alleviation. The will and ability of external actors to replicate the productive sanitation approach will depend on the success of the field work in the project but also on the quality of the project capitalization and on the existence of guides and manuals on low cost productive sanitation in general.

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