Are you interested in adopting container-based sanitation?
Can you help the sector to grow?Â
We’d love to hear from you.
We want to enable CBS by working on regulations, standards, procurement and incentives. We want to work with you, especially if you are:
Sanitation operators
We support CBSA members and new providers to develop and grow by facilitating peer exchange and providing learning resources, technical assistance and training. This includes:
- providing standardised products and tools for CBS providers, including our implementation guide, internal knowledge exchange sessions and learning briefs
- responding to CBSA members’ needs
- facilitating responsive support for new CBS providers
Sanitation authorities
CBS can support municipalities and water utilities to realise their ambitions to leave no one behind in providing safe and dignified sanitation services. Adopting CBS is an inclusive, climate-smart, and scalable solution. For instance:
- In 2023-24, we worked with the South African NGO GreenCape and the City of Cape Town, to develop guidelines and best practices for CBS, specifically to accompany service improvements in Cape Town.
- In October 2024, CBSA published How to mainstream container-based sanitation, a resource to inspire and empower authorities to embrace CBS.
- Other existing resources that can supporting interested authorities include our guide to implementation and our cost effectiveness analysis (as well as more up-to-date research).
- Upcoming resources include: a 2025 sector report, global standards and guidance to contracting in informal settlements.
Financiers
CBS has shown to be as cost-effective as more conventional sanitation systems, and can bring added revenue from the sale of byproducts and climate finance. Yet the sanitation funding gap and lack of public funding to CBS is a key barrier to scale and acceptance.
We want to work with you to close the funding gap for sustainable financing. Let’s:
- incentivise public investment in CBS through practical mechanisms
- mobilise private funding from new sources, including exploring the potential of carbon credits, wider climate finance and results-based financing
- chart a path to inclusion in projects with repayable finance
Regulators
We want CBS to be well-regulated to ensure that users get safe and professional services, and that operators are incentivised and accountable. We are working with regulators to:
- build on the CBS guidelines and best practices we developed with GreenCape for the City of Cape Town to develop global standards for CBS
- develop guidance to contracting CBS in informal settlements