Guidelines for Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) Planning

To achieve safely managed sanitation services requires a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approach to urban sanitation that involves collaboration among many actors to ensure that everyone benefits from adequate sanitation service delivery outcomes. Citywide inclusive sanitation aims to help cities develop comprehensive approaches to sanitation improvement and means that: human waste is safely managed along the whole sanitation service chain; effective resource recovery and re-use are considered; a diversity of technical solutions is embraced for adaptive, mixed and incremental approaches; and onsite and sewerage solutions are combined, in either centralized or decentralized systems, to better respond to the realities found in developing country cities.

These guidelines provide guidance on how CWIS can be implemented at the country level.