Examples of Netherlands funded projects with attention to sanitation are:
- Rural Water and Sanitation West Java Project (OTA-33) executed by IWACO
- Small Towns Sanitation (STS) West Java Project executed by IWACO and HASKONING
- PRED project in India
- Frysian Urban Sanitation Project (2010-2017), see the factsheet on household sanitation, Aqua Limpa and school sanitation.
In order to improve the treatment efficiency of onsite systems, the University of Wageningen tested the household scale Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) reactor in Bandung, Indonesia, at the Borremeus Hospital.
The Netherlands' focus on numbers is highly influenced by world players such as UNICEF. Some important publications are:
- Sanitation without water by Uno Winblad
- Ecological Toilets by Peter Morgan
- Sanplat by Bjorn Brandberg.
The UNDP, especially the Low Cost Sanitation investment Project in Bandung in 1985, published interesting documents. Another groundbreaking initiative were the Urban Low Cost Sanitation Demonstration Project and the Urban Technical Services. See the Construction manual on Twin Leaching Pits.
Integrated approach
he IOB report: ‘From infrastructure to sustainable impact' digs into the integrated approach as an answer to the meagre outcomes of technological oriented projects.
'Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted”, is a saying often credited to Einstein. However, to measure the progress of the SDGs, a methodological framework was developed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Integrated Green Growth/ IGG).
