Liberia - Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene In Monrovia

The Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene Project is a response to the urgent need to increase access to safe sanitation for the poor urban dwellers in Monrovia and other cities in Liberia. The proposed intervention demonstrates a community driven innovative approach to deliver affordable and sustainable services along the sanitation value chain from collection through treatment and reuse, with derived economic benefits. It will be implemented for a total duration of 30 months in four components. The first is construction and rehabilitation of sanitation infrastructure consists of activities to increase access to improved public toilets for residents in four slum communities. The second, focused on Faecal Sludge (FS) collection and treatment, provides a cesspool emptying truck and two vacu tugs to increase capacity for FS collection, and a treatment facility to optimize treatment of collected FS within Monrovia. The third provides a processing facility for FS fertilizer reduction; a marketing and sales strategy, establishment of demonstration farms and FS user association, and outsourcing of marketing and sales to a private company, among others for effective reuse. The fourth component is Project management activities.