Product Design Supporting Improved Water, Sanitation, and Energy Services Delivery in Low-Income Settings

Sharpe, Taylor; Muragijimana, Christian; Thomas, Evan

doi:10.3390/su11236717

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“…Designing for improved service approaches in low-resource settings, especially for products that focus on basic needs like sanitation/hygiene and related concerns, differ from standard industrial design processes and are sometimes referred to as 'design for the bottom of the pyramid' or 'design for the developing world' (Lucena & Schneider, 2008) or 'social sector human-centred design' (Mitcham & Munoz, 2010;Sharpe et al, 2019). These approaches often frame the end-beneficiary as customer, even when they are not, and retail consumers are the actual end-users.…”

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“…These approaches often frame the end-beneficiary as customer, even when they are not, and retail consumers are the actual end-users. The end-user is simultaneously the subject of monitoring and recipient of the data -for feedback between product designers and other production stakeholders (Sharpe et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, designers are responsible for the sustainability and safety of their designs (Mattson & Wood, 2014). It is, therefore, necessary for the designers to have knowledge about the product lifecycles and the impacts of design decisions (Sharpe et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

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The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for development actions and also serve as a market systems approach to improve access to safely-managed sanitation. It has been suggested that sanitation could boost local and national economies and global interconnections with a growing recognition that the private sector can play a bigger role in delivering the Sustainable Development Goal for sanitation, and help businesses understand value-added and product opportunities. This book proposes a pathway towards re-thinking the sanitation value chain (SVC) and suggests that it should cover all processes, activities and products of enterprises/actors in the sanitation supply chain that provide value-added services within each stage. Following the Regenerative Sanitation Principles, this book presents a new perspective to the SVC known as the ‘integrated functional sanitation value chain’ (IFSVC) to address operational functions within sanitation systems in combination with sanitation enterprises, operators and external actors that support the growth of the sanitation economy. The underlying premise of this book is that the IFSVC represents a new perspective that would have major social, environmental and economic implications for local, national, regional and global sanitation service delivery. It is hoped that researchers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials and funders will find this book valuable, and be inspired and enabled to carry sanitation work forward in their own spheres of operation. The book gives several examples of encouraging developments, particularly in technical and business model innovation. It is our hope that this book will provide the stimulus for new learning and its application, particularly through cross-disciplinary and cross-sector partnerships that bring together all the skills and capabilities needed to deliver a fully effective IFSVC. ISBN: 9781789061833 (print) ISBN: 9781789061840 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789061857 (ePUB)

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Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

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2022

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“…Market upgrading and decentralization include the urgent need for investment in research-led innovations to improve hygiene and hence food safety through human-centered design approaches (HCD) to sanitary facilities, water provision, and sales points (Lestikow et al, 2017;Sharpe et al, 2019). Such upgrading also needs to involve innovative and mutually acceptable ways to deal with market waste, reduce health risks, and recover an urban resource e.g., for compost (see section Recovering water and waste for the urban circular bioeconomy).…”

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Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: Toward more resilient cities in the Global South

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Halliday³

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is widely distributed throughout the Global South. Despite urban population growth and diversifying food habits, UPA delivers an important part of urban food supply, as well as other types of services to cities, such as employment and waste reuse. Nevertheless, the extent and importance of UPA varies between different urban areas, while challenges like limited recognition, land conversion, and water pollution and competition threaten the potential of UPA to contribute to urban resilience. Key investment priorities for research and innovation for overcoming current challenges include incentivized peri-urban zoning, urban allocation of productive lands, and increasing capacities for controlled environment agriculture (CEA). Innovative repositioning of food marketing can help to strengthen supply of healthy food from UPA production, increase decent employment, and turn food markets into nutrition hubs. Priority innovations for contributing to the circular bioeconomy of cities include scaling the safe use of wastewater for irrigation through investments in the adoption of multiple risk-barrier approaches and scaling UPA-based ecosystem services for valorising solid waste and environmental management. Innovations in urban governance are required to support these processes by bringing food systems into urban planning through food mapping and the multisectoral platforms for dialogue and policy formulation across city regions and with vertical levels of government.

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“…In a consumer-based market, feedback on product acceptability, viability, utility, and pricing are addressed through consumers purchasing (or not purchasing) products, products that are often regulated by a tax-supported agency (e.g., EPA, FDA) to ensure quality and function. However, in many environmental health interventions, often the consumer of the product or service is not the customer, they are instead the “beneficiaries”, and the customer is instead an international donor, with some further coordination of responsibility with national government ministries . These contracting models negate the feedback of consumers speaking with their wallets to urge the improvement of a product or service.…”

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Using Feedback to Improve Accountability in Global Environmental Health and Engineering

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Brown

2020

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Engineered environmental health interventions and services in low-income and resource-limited settingssuch as water supply and treatment, sanitation, and cleaner household energy serviceshave had a less than expected record of sustainability and have sometimes not delivered on their potential to improve health. These interventions require both effectively functioning technologies as well as supporting financial, political, and human resource systems, and may depend on user behaviors as well as professionalized service delivery to reduce harmful exposures. In this perspective, we propose that the application of smarter, more actionable monitoring and decision support systems and aligned financial incentives can enhance accountability between donors, implementers, service providers, governments, and the people who are the intended beneficiaries of development programming. Made possible in part by new measurement techniques, including emerging sensor technologies, rapid impact evaluation, citizen science, and performance-based contracting, such systems have the potential to propel the development of solutions that can work over the long-term, allowing the benefits of environmental health improvements to be sustained in settings where they are most critical by improving trust and mutual accountability among stakeholders.

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Product Design Supporting Improved Water, Sanitation, and Energy Services Delivery in Low-Income Settings

Cited by 6 publications

References 38 publications

Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain

Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: Toward more resilient cities in the Global South

Using Feedback to Improve Accountability in Global Environmental Health and Engineering

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