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Online videos & sessions on Just Sanitation and gendered taboos launched

6 January 2022

Since July 2020, the DPU-hosted project OVERDUE “Tackling the sanitation taboo across urban Africa” has been exploring gendered experiences, norms, practices, and infrastructure related to human waste in African cities.

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We are glad to announce that several OVERDUE audios, videos and recorded webinars are now online, hoping they will be useful to designers, activists, researchers and practitioners interested in supporting just sanitation pathways.

In September 2021, a workshop brought together institutions in Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, DRC, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Senegal, France, Denmark and the UK to reflect on the campaign and broaden the perspective on women’s sanitation experiences.  

Four African feminist organisations, GEPALEF (Ivory Coast), SiMIRALENTA (Madagascar), CFCEM/GA (DRC) and OGDS (Senegal) followed-up on these discussions with the publication of a blog-post on “” and the production of four short films in Abidjan, Antananarivo, Bukavu and Saint Louis. These tackle , women’s in sanitation, the impacts of , as well as of urban sanitation systems.

The four 10-minute films were presented during a , and discussed by researchers and experts from Brazil, India, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Tanzania.

To broaden engagements, and especially contribute to the discussions on sanitation work and workers, the OVERDUE team further joined the , from 29 November to 3rd December 2021. The 3 short videos can be accessed online: Festo D Makoba (CCI Tanzania) presented reflections on , Angèle Koué (GEPALEF Ivory Coast), Jeannine Bola Ramarokoto (SiMIRALENTA, Madagascar) and Mina Rakotoarindrasata (Genre en Action, Madagascar) discussed the role of , and Ndéye Penda Diouf (OGDS) brought to the fore .

All these elements echo the UN Special Rapporteur videos on , and are resources we will build on and enrich as we continue our journey towards sanitation justice. To know more and join the conversation, check out OVERDUE’s or twitter account @Just_OVERDUE.