Business as Usual and Fantasy Planning

The paper identifies a disconnect between Nairobi's sanitation policy rhetoric and its implementation, noting that a focus on sewerage development marginalizes other sanitation regimes and fails to address equity. Projections suggest that climate change will exacerbate these inequalities, leaving a significant portion of the population with poor sanitation services by 2030.

• There is a significant gap between Nairobi's sanitation policy rhetoric and actual implementation, where the prioritization of sewerage development occurs at the expense of alternative sanitation regimes, despite policies acknowledging equity issues.
• Climate change is expected to worsen existing service inequalities in Nairobi's sanitation sector, with projections indicating that a large number of residents will have poor sanitation services by 2030.
• The authors argue for a paradigm shift toward a more honest discussion on scaling high-quality, resilient sanitation that includes both sewer and non-sewered systems, supported by substantial public investment.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2026). Business as Usual and Fantasy Planning. https://www.sei.org/publications/business-as-usual-and-fantasy-planning/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Business as Usual and Fantasy Planning. 2026. https://www.sei.org/publications/business-as-usual-and-fantasy-planning/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2026business, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Business as Usual and Fantasy Planning}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2026}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/business-as-usual-and-fantasy-planning/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }