Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
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Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies at Coursera Overview
Duration | 17 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies at Coursera Course details
- Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Be up-to-date on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Get to know best practice examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you!
- This course provides you with an introduction to integrated sanitation planning, both on a citywide scale and for specific contexts such as informal settlements. You will become familiar with different sanitation planning frameworks as well as different systems and technologies relevant along the sanitation value chain. You will learn why systems? thinking is crucial for urban environmental sanitation, and how to apply key terminology and important concepts.
- INSTRUCTION Eawag-Sandec and EPFL jointly offer this course with support from sanitation experts of the World Bank and WHO.
- LANGUAGES We simultaneously offer this course in English and French. The name of the French course is « Planification & Design des Syst'mes et Technologies d?Assainissement ».
- MOOC SERIES This course is one of four in the series ?Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development".
Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to sanitation planning & systems approach
Trailer
1.1 Overview of the course
1.2 City Sanitation Planning (Guest lecture)
1.3a City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [1] (Guest lecture)
1.3b City-wide sanitation diagnostic tools and planning frameworks [2] (Guest lecture)
1.4 Local Level Sanitation Planning [1]
1.5 Local Level Sanitation Planning [2]
1.6 Local Level Sanitation Planning [3]
1.7 Summary Week 1
1.9 Case study: Towards CWIS - Kampala, Uganda
1.10 Case study: Towards CWIS - Lusaka, Zambia
1.11 Case study: Towards CWIS - Kathmandu, Nepal
1.12 Case study: Towards CWIS - Dhaka, Bangladesh
1.13 Case study: Towards CWIS - Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
1.14 SDG Baselines - Sanitation Services
Important information to succeed in this course
Key and further readings
Connect with your peers
Hands-On Challenge I - Sanitation planning in YOUR community
Sanitation 21 ? City wide sanitation planning approach
CLUES ? Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation
How to give feedback to the course team?
Slides Week 1
About Citywide Inclusive Sanitation
Sanitation systems & technologies
2.1 Introduction to the Compendium
2.2 Sanitation Products
2.3 Functional Groups
2.4 User Interface Technologies
2.5 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Single Pit Technologies
2.6 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Double Pit Technologies
2.7 Collection and Storage/Treatment - Anaerobic Technologies
2.8 Conveyance - Container-based Technologies
2.9 Conveyance - Sewer-based Technologies
2.9b Conveyance - Condominial Sewerage Systems
2.10 Summary Week 2
Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
Hands-On Challenge II ? Let?s get visual: Draw YOUR sanitation reality
Slides Week 2
Sanitation systems & technologies
3.1 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Treatment stages
3.2 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Anaerobic Technologies
3.3 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Aerobic Technologies
3.4 [Semi] Centralized Treatment - Technologies for Sludge Treatment
3.5 Use and/or Disposal - Agricultural Use as Fertilizer and Soil Conditioner
3.6 Use and/or Disposal - Effluent and other Products
3.7 Emerging Sanitation Technologies
3.8 Introduction to Sanitation Systems
3.9 Waterless Pit-based Systems
3.10 Decentralized Water-based Systems
3.11 Black Water Transport Systems
3.12 Summary Week 3
Slides Week 3
Quiz
Urban sanitation solutions - Case studies
4.1 Case study Nala, Nepal - Implementing CLUES
4.2a Case study Erdos, China - an eco-town pilot project [1]
4.2b Case study Erdos, China - an eco-town pilot project [2]
4.3a Case study Indonesia - How Sanitation in Indonesia was transformed [1]
4.3b Case study Indonesia - How Sanitation in Indonesia was transformed [2]
4.4 Case study Lusaka, Zambia - Sanitation service delivery through faecal sludge management
How to join the global sanitation community?
Slides Week 4
Urban sanitation tools
5.1 Overview Urban Sanitation Tools
5.2 Shit Flow Diagrams
5.3 Decision-making Support for Urban Sanitation
5.4 Introduction to Sanitation Safety Planning
5.5 Tools for Institutional and Political Economy Analysis for Sanitation Solutions
5.6 Sanitation from a gender perspective
5.7 Behavior Change in Urban Sanitation
5.8 Institutional and financial options for sanitation service delivery
5.9 Results-based financing to deliver urban sanitation services
5.10 Working within the project cycle
Slides Week 5
Final exam
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