Using a community led total sanitation approach, Practical Action will ensure that communities have access to improved water, sanitation and hygiene. The geographical focus of our work is primarily in urban low-income settlements in the Northern Rift and the Lake Victoria Basin.

We promote the uptake of decentralized and appropriate low-cost technologies and systems, delivered through partnerships with informal and formal service providers to improve access to clean water for informal slum dwellers. We embed hygiene behaviour change messages throughout our work including menstrual hygiene management. Our work explores the gender dimensions of different technologies and systems for WASH and promotes women as key decision makers at the local level.

We work in informal settlements communities to improve the waste management solutions in their communities through behavioural change campaigns, promoting waste separation and collection systems that work for poor communities.

We partner with local authorities to ensure that decentralised solid waste management is embedded in policy and practice and with informal waste workers to improve their livelihoods, working conditions and social status.