Infrastructure
- Building capacity Poor people lack access to essential services such as water, sanitation, and energy.
- Participatory planning Urban areas usually lack clean water, basic sanitation and waste collection and are a low priorit...
- Urban infrastructure The world is becoming increasingly urban, and the numbers living in urban slums are growing.
Poor people are often excluded from essential services such as water, sanitation, energy, education and health – as well as lacking adequate shelter.
Locally-managed, sustainable and decentralised services offer low-income communities the best hope of satisfying their need for affordable water, sanitation, housing and energy.
Our solutions
Technologies and approaches
Practical Action work with the following technologies and approaches to supply infrastructure services:
Access to infrastructure services blogs
Proud to be ODF
If you’re squeamish about poo, look away now! Open defecation is not something people in the deve...
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Providing better health services for waste workers
Large numbers of people in the developing world rely on other people’s waste to make a living. I...
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Ecological sanitation for sustainable sanitation
2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to improved sanitation facilities. Most of the...
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