Burkina Faso

2009 EPP fellow at Sandec, Christoph Lüthi

Yiougo Sompogda Adissa Lydie
July - October, 2009
PhD student, 2iE Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

I was awarded an EPP fellowship in the summer of 2009. My ongoing PhD research is about sanitation planning with a focus on the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation (HCES) approach currently being implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa. During my stay, I worked on data analysis and interpretation, literature review and writing papers for publication. The two papers I was able to produce during my stay at Eawag are:

(i) Application of the Material Flux Analysis Approach (MFA) method as a tool for the evaluation of an existing Strategic Sanitation Plan for a secondary city in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Fada N’Gourma - Burkina Faso (ready to be submitted)

(ii) Application of Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation (HCES) for sanitation services improvement in Pouytenga - Burkina Faso (submitted to EPFL-UNESCO International Scientific conference on Technologies for Development). I will be presenting this paper at the EPFL Conference in February 2010.

My stay at Eawag has been very helpful for my PhD research. I really appreciated the opportunity to have access to the many scientific papers and to work with the knowledgeable and easy going people at Eawag.