Integrated sensitisation campaign for water, sanitation and solid waste

This guidance document presents a comprehensive overview of an integrated sensitisation campaign with key messages based on detailed assessments done across the water, sanitation, and solid waste sectors in the two towns in Uganda between 2023-2025. While the specific results from these assessments are particular to the selected towns, they have lessons for several other small towns in the region, and beyond that, share these challenges of basic service provision, due to limited prioritization, resource constraints, and siloed planning leading to negative interlinkages. The integrated baseline assessments included methods of household surveys, interviews, water quality assessments, sanitary inspections, solid waste characterization, photovoice, and sectoral flow diagrams, among others. Key challenges identified include contamination of non-piped water sources, poor hygiene and sanitary cleanliness, unlined pit latrines, inadequate waste management at the household and system level, and the interlinkages of groundwater contamination, dumping in waterbodies and pits, all of which pose risks to public health and the environment. [...]