 The BUS initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of local authorities and their partners in dealing with basic urban services like water and sanitation in poorly serviced urban neighbourhoods. A joint initiative of SCP and the International Water & Sanitation Centre (IRC), it will focus on the involvement and ownership of the community in organising, delivering and maintaining basic urban services related to water and sanitation. It will assist local authorities to prepare a municipal strategy on basic urban services based on an SCP/EPM process. BUS initiatives are currently being implemented in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso with support of a local NGO, CREPA and in Kotte and Wattala in Greater Colombo, Sri Lanka with the support of a network of local organisations including ITDG, National Housing Development Agency, NERD, SEVANATHA and MaRGG.
Basic Urban Services (BUS) demonstrative initiative in Sri Lanka Kotte Municipal Council with the support of UNDP/UN-HABITAT, the Government of Sri Lanka, Sustainable Sri Lankan Cities Programme and the IRC have developed a Basic Urban Services (BUS) demonstration initiative based on the EPM approach to improve their Solid Waste Management (SWM) practices. The main focus of this initiative is to support a number of demonstration projects to reduce solid waste at source or near source, and to try out different recycling processes. The project activities include introduction of household compost bins, setting up of community-based micro-enterprises for waste separation and recycling and the production of biogas. |
UN-HABITAT SCP Basic Urban Services
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