Vientiane’s FSM
Faecal Sludge Management of Vientiane, the capital of Laos (1,000,000 inhab concerned):
- Building a plant for the treatment of the city’s sludge(humification planted beds)
- Organizing the coming of the existing emptying companies to the plant (profit-sharing and coercion measures)
- Start-up of the treatment process (green engineering)
- Optimizing plant’s operation & maintenance, humus production and marketing during the first two years
- Developing a valid economic model based on the pricing of FS discharges and humus sales, in order to establish a PPP according to the acquired experience
Duration: 2015-2019
FSM book translation
Translation into French of the book “Faecal Sludge Management – Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation”
Tamatave’s FSTP
Implementation of a Faecal Sludge Management system (Collect-Transport-Treatment-Reuse) in a city of 200,000 inhabitants (the third largest city of the country)
Francophone cities
Technical assistance of International Association of Francophone Mayors, for developing sustainable and efficient sanitation services in the cities and towns of the network.
Technical assistance
Technical assistance to PSI’s teams in Cotonou and Abidjan, for the implemention of the programme Sanitation services delivery (SSD), especially through households toilets implementation and faecal sludge management market improvement
FSM training course
Training module for French decentralised funding agencies
Organisation and achievment of a 2 days training module on faecal sludge management
Majunga phase 1
Implementation of faecal sludge emptying services, transport and treatment for the city:
- Implementation of a faecal sludge treatment plant (drying beds)
- Equipment for the alternative emptying (manual and simplified motorizing)
- Development of operators for collection, transport and treatment at the institutional and financial levels
- O&M assessment and optimization of the FSM chain
This project also includes development of public toilets (and their management) and equipment of households with improved latrines.
Sokodé’s Sanitation Management
Project Toilettes pour Tous (Toilets for all) in Sokodé, sanitation marketing and faecal sludge management (project leader and expert):
Douala’s FSM Implementation
Project leader for the Faecal Sludge Management implementation in Douala (team leader and FSM expert):
Parakou’s Sanitation
Sanitation strategic planning of this secondary Beninese city of 210,000 inhabitants.
- Regulation of the use of the drainage channels for irrigation purposes
- FSM chain organization
- Toilet market organization
- City centre pond upgrade, addition of drying beds and integration of suburban farmers in its exploitation
- Pilot public toilets with resource recovery and value creation and management at the household level