ORGANIZATION
USAID
YEAR PUBLISHED
2014
DESCRIPTION
To encourage residents of peri-urban areas to transition from shared and traditional latrines and increase the market segment for improved latrines, SHOPS initiated an activity, the Malawi Peri-Urban Sanitation project, which aimed to introduce a more affordable improved latrine. The activity began with a global review of transitional sanitation products to learn from other projects around the world. Masons, NGO staff, university faculty, and local government representatives were then brought together to explore new design strategies using human-centered design and participatory approaches. The resulting design prototype was piloted in the peri-urban areas of Lilongwe and Blantyre, and project staff collected valuable feedback from households and sanitation experts. Using the feedback, project staff modified the design of the prototype latrine and formulated a strategy to promote the latrine.