On a journey to citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS)? A political economy analysis of container-based sanitation (CBS) in the fragmented (in)formal city

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dc.contributor.authorMdee, Anna
dc.contributor.authorOfori, Alesia Dedaa
dc.contributor.authorBarrington, Dani
dc.contributor.authorAnciano, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorDube, Mmeli
dc.contributor.authorHutchings, Paul
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Sasha
dc.contributor.authorLópez-Valladares, Hellen
dc.contributor.authorParker, Alison
dc.contributor.authorRiungu, Joy Nyawira
dc.contributor.authorWard, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T16:20:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T16:20:15Z
dc.date.freetoread2025-01-10
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.pubOnline2024-12-18
dc.description.abstractRapidly growing cities face the chronic challenge of access to safe, dignified and accessible sanitation, in contexts of inequality and informality. Technological and operational innovations, such as container-based sanitation (CBS), are promoted as relatively low-cost market-based circular economy off-grid solutions to deliver citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS). However, in the absence of evidence that CBS is delivering on these promises, this paper asks: under what conditions can CBS services contribute to achieving CWIS goals? It applies a combined political economy and socio-technical regime analysis to examine multi-level governance in the sanitation sector and CBS service regimes in Cape Town, Lima, Nairobi and Cap-Haitien. Only Cape Town, a municipality-controlled system, demonstrates the necessary public authority that enables CBS to operate at scale. Yet, it is regarded by many residents in informal settlements as poor sanitation for poor people. This suggests that scaling CBS requires sustained public investment and strong coordinating authority.
dc.description.journalNameGlobalizations
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Francis Crick Institute, UK Research and Innovation
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research work is supported by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), grant number (ES/T007877/1).
dc.format.extentpp. 1-21
dc.identifier.citationMdee A, Ofori AD, Barrington D, et al., (2024) On a journey to citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS)? A political economy analysis of container-based sanitation (CBS) in the fragmented (in)formal city. Globalizations, Available online 18 December 2024
dc.identifier.eissn1474-774X
dc.identifier.elementsID561000
dc.identifier.issn1474-7731
dc.identifier.issueNoahead-of-print
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2024.2434302
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23366
dc.identifier.volumeNoahead-of-print
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2024.2434302
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectPolitical economy
dc.subjectcontainer-based sanitation (CBS)
dc.subjectinformal settlements
dc.subjectGovernance
dc.subjecturbanization
dc.subjectcitywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS)
dc.subject4404 Development Studies
dc.subject4406 Human Geography
dc.subject4407 Policy and Administration
dc.subject44 Human Society
dc.titleOn a journey to citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS)? A political economy analysis of container-based sanitation (CBS) in the fragmented (in)formal city
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeJournal Article
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-11-21

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