Here are the reports of our organization which are available on-line (some are only available in French):
Report of the Study Project "Urban Sanitation 2004-2005"
This document's title is: "Monter un projet d'assainissement dans les quartiers urbains pauvres de pays en développement : une autre approche - Pistes de réflexion pour les monteurs de projets" ("Setting Up a Sanitation Project in Urban Poor Districts in Developing Countries: A Different Approach - Reflexion Leads for Projects Leaders"). It is aimed at all those who want to set up an urban sanitation project in a poor district of a developing country city. It is aimed at those who want to set up a non-existing basic service as well as at those who want to improve an existing and inefficient service. Many people may be concerned: NGOs, poor districts inhabitants, private companies, municipalities, international organization, etc.
Our field study has revealed systematic errors and dead-ends as well as interesting success factors in urban sanitation projects. Our will is to allow projects leaders to ask themselves some questions essential to the carrying out of a useful and durable project, to provide them with reflexion tips and concrete examples of success in sanitation projects, of existing problems and of solutions developed in the 6 studied cities.
Setting up a sanitation project in urban poor districts in developing countries: a different approach - Reflection leads for projects leaders
Complete report (pdf document, 117 pages; 1,68 Mo)
Report without pictures (pdf document, 103 pages; 696 Ko)
Data Sheets Summing Up the "Urban Sanitation 2004-2005" Report
In order to synthesize the above report, the major reflexion and action focuses are grouped together in eight data sheets gathered in one pdf document:
Data Sheets - "Urban Sanitation 2004-2005"
Full Version (pdf document, 18 pages, 319 Ko)
Data Sheets without pictures (pdf document, 18 pages, 288 Ko)
Study Document on Informal Waste Pickers
Picking, sorting and recycling solid wastes is an extremely widespread and traditional activity. Nowadays, it allows tenths of thousands of people and families to survive in developing countries. This activity, often informal though very useful on social, economic and environmental levels, is of interest for many NGOs and Municipalities that try to develop suitable solutions to improve work and life conditions of the waste pickers.
This document (only available in French) deals with the informal waste picking in major cities and the initiatives of work improvement in this domain.
La récupération informelle d'ordures dans les grandes villes de pays en développement (pdf document, 15 pages ; 324 Ko)
Newsletters of the Field Missions (2004)
During 2004, as part of the "Urban Sanitation 2004-2005" study, in order to keep its partners informed, Experians has published a newsletter for each studied city (pdf format, 65 to 271 Ko). In order to make these newsletters appear as young and dynamic as our organization (!), we have imagined a fictional character, Phil who is a young engineer working for an international NGO and who is studying urban sanitation in poor districts of the cities Experians focuses on. This character and the fictional persons met by Phil point out important issues in the domain.
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Newsletter 1 - Delhi (India): After the study in Delhi, here is the dialog between two characters, Phil and Bernard, on the theme of urban sanitation.
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Newsletter 2 - Hanoi (Vietnam): After leaving Hanoi, second city-step of Experians, our young and fictional engineer sends a fax to his older colleague, Bernard.
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Newsletter 3 - Phnom Penh (Cambodia): In the last Asian city of Experians' study, Phil meets several relevant actors of the urban sanitation in the poor districts of Phnom Penh. You may find these interviews in our third newsletter.
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Newsletter 5 - Buenos Aires (Argentina): Carrying on his study on sanitation in poor districts of South-American large capitals, our young and fictional engineer, Phil, meets relevant actors in several different structures in Buenos Aires.
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