Martin Mulenga

• Ph.D
• Senior Research Manager - Global Health Research at University of Southampton

The lack of access to basic sanitation is a global concern and alarmingly prevalent in low- and middle- income countries. In the densely populated settlements of these countries, on-site sanitation systems are usually the only feasible option because dwellers there have no sewers in place to connect to. Using on-site sanitation facilities results i...

A Reflect and Act Briefing Note on an urban groundwater research project.

Although Zambia has just recently been re-classified as a lower-middle income country by the World Bank, only 43% of the national population and 56% of the urban population have access to improved sanitation facilities according to the 2014 WHO/UNICEF JMP Report. The majority of people in urban centres in the country live in informal settlements an...

Climate change and housing have a close link in Vietnam’s cities. The impact of climate change is one of the biggest concerns for government and civil society. In Central Vietnam, storms and floods are common and dangerous hazards. Housing vulnerability is intensified by these hazards – but also by fragile physical and socio-economic conditions....

This book, published in 2013, is an updated and extended version of José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (Eds.), Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management (Earthscan, 2009; Routledge, 2012) and contains 5 new chapters on Brazil and 1 on Venezuela. O livro estrutura-se com base em vários pressupostos, que proporcionam um arcabouço c...

This book is an updated and extended version of José Esteban Castro and Léo Heller (Eds.), Water and Sanitation Services: Public Policy and Management (Earthscan, 2009; Routledge, 2012) and contains 5 new chapters on Brazil and 1 on Venezuela. Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is on...

Many in the water sector believe wells dug in peri-urban settlements do not provide safe water, and as a result policy makers tend to discourage their use. Tapping groundwater is seen as a practice to be eliminated by discouraging well use, while simultaneously expanding piped water systems. Efforts to enhance the quality and sustainability of urba...

An estimated 800 million urban dwellers lack access to safe and adequate drinking water. Most of those people live in unplanned, low-income areas and slums. The vital role of groundwater for this group remains largely unexplored despite that some 50 per cent of all urban water use worldwide is attributed to well, spring and borehole sources. None o...

This paper is an output of the Sida, DANIDA and DFID funded project entitled: Improving urban water and sanitation provision globally, through information and action driven locally. This project was carried out by IIED and five of its partners in Angola, Argentina, Ghana, India and Pakistan. The project aims to document innovative and inspiring exa...

The book is structured on the basis of several assumptions that provide a common framework to the different contributions, although these presuppositions are the responsibility of the editors and they are not fully shared by all of the participating authors. First, we assume that WSS policies must be grounded on the principle that these services co...

In order to achieve significant scales and ensure that lessons learned from engagement with communities during the years of conflict are incorporated into ambitious post-war reconstruction programmes Development Workshop engages strategically with the Angolan Government, the National Water Directorate, UNICEF, the World Bank, the European Union and...

Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search for improved organization and delivery of these ess...

Despite huge investments in the water and sanitation sector over the years, millions of urban poor communities still remain unserved with adequate water supply and improved sanitation services. Part of the problem has been the failure to give attention to indicators, financial mechanisms and institutions that are designed by local organizations at...

"Building Links" is based on a detailed study of sanitation in twelve poor, urban settlements in southern Africa and demonstrates very clearly that the situation is dire and needs urgent attention. The residents of these areas recognise the problem and want an improvement in their situation, but lack the resources to bring this about. One of the ke...

This paper is an output of the Sida, DANIDA and DFID funded project entitled: Improving urban water and sanitation provision globally, through information and action driven locally. This project was carried out by IIED and five of its partners in Angola, Argentina, Ghana, India and Pakistan. The project aims to document innovative and inspiring exa...