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Promoting EcoSan Latrine Use in Burera District: Safety, Benefits, and Community Insights

This presentation focuses on the safety and effectiveness of using EcoSan latrine products in Burera District, Rwanda. It explores challenges, community perceptions, and the value of human waste as resources for sustainable agriculture. A short film highlights the benefits of feces and urine utilization, emphasizing health safety, environmental impacts, and treatment strategies. The findings indicate positive outcomes such as reduced pollution and enhanced agricultural productivity, while underscoring the need for stakeholder mobilization and support for continued education and resource allocation.

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Promoting EcoSan Latrine Use in Burera District: Safety, Benefits, and Community Insights

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  1. Safety of the use of EcoSan latrine products by communities:Case of BureraDistrict Ntakarutimana Amans Lecturer/Environmental Heath RBC/Kigali Health Institute-Rwanda

  2. Challenges • Perception • Risks-non use of feces and urine (drop-and-store mind) • Benefits- early application • Ignorance • Characteristics and value of feces and urine • Resources • Population • Stakeholders • Mobilisation

  3. Use of EcoSan latrine products in Burera District. • Short film ( 7 minutes) on the: • Use of feces and urine • Benefits • Appreciation • Health safety findings (3minutes) • Quality of feces, urine, soil, water bodies and plant materials • Collection, treatment and application measures • Conclusion (2 minutes) • Benefits • Needs of support • Decentralisation • Resources-funding strategy • Rules and regulations • Stakeholders

  4. Health safety findings • Self protection (28.8%) • Hand washing (43.8%) • Biological quality of • feces ready for use (23%) • Urine (0%) • Contamination of • soil (4.7%) • water (0%) • plant materials (0.9%) The total number of households = 73 The sample size = 25 The sample size = 105

  5. Quality of feces and treatment

  6. Conclusion • Environmental pollution • Soil • water Less pollution • plants • Health benefits • Products less harmful (pH, To, t) • Less contamination (controlled) • STH, nutrition • Agriculture productivity • Claver (from 700,000 to 2,000,000Rwf). • Jacky(3 times of her harvest). • Cost savings to farmers (use of urine, top up with sanitized feces ).

  7. Support End of the presentation Thank you for your attention. Equity Decentralisation Funding strategy

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