Acerca de este curso: Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Be up-to-date on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Get to know best practice examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you! This course provides you with an introduction to integrated sanitation planning, both on a citywide scale and for specific contexts such as informal settlements. You will become familiar with different sanitation planning frameworks as well as different systems and technologies relevant along the sanitation value chain. You will learn why systems’ thinking is crucial for urban environmental sanitation, and how to apply key terminology and important concepts. INSTRUCTION Eawag-Sandec and EPFL jointly offer this course with support from sanitation experts of the World Bank and WHO. LANGUAGES We simultaneously offer this course in English and French. The name of the French course is « Planification & Design des Systèmes et Technologies d’Assainissement ». MOOC SERIES This course is one of four in the series “Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development".
Para quién es esta clase: This course is meant for anybody interested in learning about planning and designing sanitation systems in a development context.
Creada por: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Enseñado por: Christoph Lüthi, Dr.
Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development / Eawag
| Nivel | Intermedio |
| Compromiso | 4-6 hours/week |
| Idioma | English, Subtítulos: French, Russian, Spanish, Hindi |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Introduction to sanitation planning & systems approach
To get started, you will get an overview of why sanitation is important for human health and environmental protection, especially in urban areas. Then, you will learn about what an Enabling Environment is and why it is important. Towards the end of the first week, you will get a taste of some state-of-the-art environmental sanitation planning approaches (Sanitation 21, CLUES, CLTS) that are currently being used in international development work.
10 videos, 8 lecturas
- Lecture: Important information to succeed in this course
- Lecture: Key and further readings
- Vídeo: 1.1 Overview of the course
- Lecture: Connect with your peers
- Vídeo: 1.2 City Sanitation Planning (Guest lecture)
- Lecture: Hands-On Challenge - Detective work: Sanitation planning in YOUR community
- Lecture: Sanitation 21 – City wide sanitation planning approach
- Vídeo: 1.3a City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [1] (Guest lecture)
- Vídeo: 1.3b City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [2] (Guest lecture)
- Vídeo: 1.4 Local Level Sanitation Planning [1]
- Lecture: CLUES – Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation
- Vídeo: 1.5 Local Level Sanitation Planning [2]
- Lecture: How to give feedback to the course team?
- Vídeo: 1.6 Local Level Sanitation Planning [3]
- Vídeo: 1.7 Summary Week 1
- Lecture: Slides Week 1
- Vídeo: SDG Baselines - Sanitation Services
SEMANA 2
Sanitation systems & technologies
After getting to know different sanitation planning frameworks in the first part of this week, you will learn about the key terminology and concepts used in the systems approach to environmental sanitation. We will also explore why systems thinking is crucial for urban environmental sanitation.
11 videos, 3 lecturas
- Lecture: Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.2 Sanitation Products
- Vídeo: 2.3 Functional Groups
- Vídeo: 2.4 User Interface Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.5 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Single Pit Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.6 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Double Pit Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.7 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Anaerobic Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.8 Conveyance - Container-based Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.9 Conveyance - Sewer-based Technologies
- Vídeo: 2.9b Conveyance - Condominial Sewerage Systems
- Demande de discussion: Conveyance system(s) in YOUR community
- Vídeo: 2.10 Summary Week 2
- Lecture: Hands-On Challenge – Let’s get visual: Draw YOUR sanitation reality
- Lecture: Slides Week 2
SEMANA 3
Sanitation systems & technologies
During week 3, you will dive more deeply into the technical aspects of different sanitation systems, from the simple single pit system to more complex centralised treatment systems. We introduce you to the main treatment processes in detail, highlighting advantages and disadvantages of each.
12 videos, 1 lectura
- Vídeo: 3.2 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Anaerobic Technologies
- Vídeo: 3.3 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Aerobic Technologies
- Vídeo: 3.4 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Technologies for Sludge Treatment
- Vídeo: 3.5 Use and/or Disposal - Agricultural Use as Fertilizer and Soil Conditioner
- Vídeo: 3.6 Use and/or Disposal - Effluent and other Products
- Vídeo: 3.7 Emerging Sanitation Technologies
- Vídeo: 3.8 Introduction to Sanitation Systems
- Vídeo: 3.9 Waterless Pit-based Systems
- Vídeo: 3.10 Decentralized Water-based Systems
- Vídeo: 3.11 Black Water Transport Systems
- Vídeo: 3.12 Summary Week 3
- Lecture: Slides Week 3
Calificado: Quiz
SEMANA 4
Urban sanitation solutions - Case studies
In this week, you will see much of the theory of the last weeks be put to the test. Here, we present you with case studies from Africa and Asia in which different sanitation solutions from neighbourhood to national scale are trialled or already fully established. Do you already feel familiar with all of them? Watch this week’s video collection to find out!
6 videos, 2 lecturas
- Vídeo: 4.2a Case study Erdos, China - an eco-town pilot project [1]
- Vídeo: 4.2b Case study Erdos, China - an eco-town pilot project [2]
- Lecture: How to join the global sanitation community?
- Vídeo: 4.3a Case study Indonesia - How Sanitation in Indonesia was transformed [1]
- Vídeo: 4.3b Case study Indonesia - How Sanitation in Indonesia was transformed [2]
- Vídeo: 4.4 Case study Lusaka, Zambia - Sanitation service delivery through faecal sludge management
- Demande de discussion: Your thoughts on our case studies
- Lecture: Slides Week 4
SEMANA 5
Urban sanitation tools
In this last week of the course, we focus on the urban realm. You will become familiar with various urban sanitation tools, such as excreta flow diagrams (SFD’s) and sanitation safety planning, and with overarching themes of urban sanitation, such as the role of gender in sanitation planning, and behaviour change in urban sanitation.
10 videos, 2 lecturas
- Vídeo: 5.2 Shit Flow Diagrams
- Vídeo: 5.3 Decision-making Support for Urban Sanitation
- Vídeo: 5.4 Introduction to Sanitation Safety Planning
- Vídeo: 5.5 Tools for Institutional and Political Economy Analysis for Sanitation Solutions
- Vídeo: 5.6 Sanitation from a gender perspective
- Vídeo: 5.7 Behavior Change in Urban Sanitation
- Vídeo: 5.8 Institutional and financial options for sanitation service delivery
- Vídeo: 5.9 Results-based financing to deliver urban sanitation services
- Vídeo: 5.10 Working within the project cycle
- Lecture: Slides Week 5
- Lecture: Please share your views with us!
Calificado: Final exam
Preguntas Frecuentes
Cómo funciona
Travail en cours
Chaque cours fonctionne comme un manuel interactif en proposant des vidéos préenregistrées, des quiz et des projets.
Aide de la part de vos pairs
Connectez-vous à des milliers d'autres étudiants et débattez sur des idées, discutez le contenu du cours et obtenez de l'aide pour en maîtriser les concepts.
Certificats
Obtenez une reconnaissance officielle pour votre travail et partagez votre réussite avec vos amis, vos collègues et vos employeurs.
Creadores
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Calificaciones y revisiones
This course is very much useful to my research work. I currently pursuing PhD in GIS based optimization of sewage treatment facilities of Tirupati Smart City. The various sanitation systems and technologies described, their planning and design gives us an overall picture to tackle the recurring problems of sewage disposal. I strongly recommend this program.
Excelente curso, el material de lectura es impresionante, muy bueno.
Interesting public health course....try it
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Brilliant course. Synthetic but well done, description and design are accurate. I like it. I think that more tests would be useful for the teacher to value us and for us to get firm view point and feedback from our preparation . karl ziegler