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Demand
Based Sanitation Promotion
An attractive product stimulates demand. Using proper moulds and manuals, SanPlats
get a smooth finish and a modern look which attracts the eye and stimulates demand.
When the demand is altered, people are motivated not only to build latrines, but to
understand benefits in terms of hygiene, health, privacy, an status.
The SanPlat becomes a platform not only for latrine building, but also
for an integrated sanitation programme.
Hygiene
Education
Theory and practice goe hand in hand: Hygiene education integrated in a
participatory SanPlat programme has an immediate health impact.
Flexible
Production
SanPlats can be produced centrally or at village level casting yards by the local people
in a decentralised programme. For a participatory programme the all in one mould is ideal as the
SanPlats can be made by each family.
Building
on Local Traditions and Skills
Latrines like houses can be built in different ways. The cheapest (but less
hygienic) traditional latrine can easily be improved with a small SanPlat simply placed
over the drop hole. For about two US dollars a traditional latrine has become an
improved latrine, hygienic, and child-safe.
Alternative
Designs
A latrine can be built in many ways. A few standard SanPlats will fit them all.
Pits can be lined or unlined, round, or rectangular. For the
somewhat better-off, a small latrine slab can be integrated in a concrete slab for a VIP
latrine. Small SanPlats are also ideal as squatting platforms in pour-flush
latrines. THE superstructure can be built completely according to the owner's
preferences and affordability.
Most families prefer the improved traditional latrine which also is the
cheapest option.
A
Sustainable Investment
SanPlats are commonly used in emergency programmes. The same SanPlat can be used
over and over again, even when life goes back to normal. For example:
Mozambican refugees in camps in Malawi packed their SanPlats together with other
belongings when the war was over--not to forget, a better hygiene behaviour for their new
life.
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