Composting Toilet in Rural Area

Project by AREDEE/RS- Agence Régionale pour l’Elimination de toutes les formes de Discrimination à l’Egard des Enfants dans la Région des Savanes

Introduction: Promote sanitation through the construction of ecological household toilets in North Togo. The project “One Household, One Ecological Toilet is a project to strengthen the participatory management of hygiene and sanitation of families in the communes of Tône3. It is planned to last for 24 months and will be implemented in 20 villages.

Problem: In the rural commune of Tône 3, there is a serious sanitation problem which results in a large spread of germs causing diseases of all kinds. The main cause is the insufficiency and especially the lack of toilets in the villages. Although social services (Social Action) set up by the State play a role in hygiene and sanitation services, several factors limit their actions:

The dispersion of household waste, human and animal waste around residential areas; deficiency of the hygienic system for the collection and treatment of garbage, favoring the proliferation of larval breeding grounds for mosquitoes and other animals, harmful insects as well as nauseating odors;

Therefore, the hygiene and sanitation situation remains worrisome in these 20 villages, where some toilets, made up of precarious structures, are built in certain households. However, they are not maintained, and they constitute problems that endanger the health and well-being of these populations on a daily basis.

The Solution: Raising awareness among the population (via radio, information panels) and monitoring the works will be ensured by AREDEE/RS. The construction of the latrines will be ventilated by the fact that it has ventilation pipes to eliminate odors and will be carried out by four teams of local masons who will be reinforced and in collaboration with the beneficiary volunteers. They will also have a slab per latrine that can be removed to empty it.

Subsequently, twenty farmers selected by the Village Development Committee in each subdivision will receive training, which will be provided by AREDEE/RS. This training will aim to teach them the techniques for using the ECOSAN process and the organic fertilizers thus recovered. At the end of the work, a compost management committee will be set up to best manage organic fertilizer.

the total commitment of communities is fundamental for the success of this project and especially for its sustainability. Thus, particular emphasis will be placed on mobilizing beneficiaries through local and mass mobilization techniques on hygiene and sanitation issues and on the maintenance of latrines.

The beneficiaries will actively contribute by assembling local materials (earth, straw, gravel/stones for the manufacture of ecological concrete blocks) and the supply of water for construction work.

Population: 100 households from 20 villages in the canton of Lotogou and Tami in the commune of Tône 3 in the savannah region of northern Togo

Duration: 24 months

Budget: $68931