Clean and Green

The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) is developing 'Clean and Green', a sanitation implementation framework for rural smallholder communities. The framework integrates health risk management (the 'Clean' track) with the productive reuse of local waste resources (the 'Green' track) to support multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• The 'Clean and Green' framework is designed to address a gap in rural sanitation by integrating both risk management to reduce health threats and resource management to enhance the productive potential of household wastes.
• The framework is particularly relevant for rural smallholder communities, noting that approximately 475 million households in developing countries operate farms smaller than 2 hectares.
• The 'Clean' track focuses on health protection through a step-wise certification process: 'Basic Sanitation Village' (elimination of open defecation), 'Sustained Sanitation Village' (universal use of improved sanitation and handwashing), and 'Total Sanitation Village' (safe management of solid waste, animal excreta, and wastewater).
• The 'Green' track encourages the safe and productive reuse of local waste streams, such as ash, organic waste, animal excreta, human faeces, human urine, and greywater, primarily for agricultural purposes.
• The framework utilizes a certification scheme to motivate progress and facilitate monitoring against SDG targets, culminating in a 'Clean and Green Village' certificate for communities achieving the highest levels in both tracks.
• Previous rural sanitation approaches have faced challenges: Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has achieved scale but shown variable long-term commitment; Community Health Clubs (CHC) lack data on long-term sustainability; and ecological sanitation pilots often failed due to cultural barriers, high subsidies, or lack of agricultural expertise.
• In rural sub-Saharan Africa, the potential for productive sanitation is high; for example, the nutrients in one year of excreta from a family of 10 in Burkina Faso are roughly equivalent to 50kg of commercial urea and 50kg of commercial NPK fertilizer, valued at approximately 80 USD.

APA

Dagerskog, L., & Dickin, S. (2019). Clean and Green. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sei-2019-brief-cleangreenv2.pdf

Chicago

Dagerskog, Linus, and Sarah Dickin. Clean and Green. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2019. https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sei-2019-brief-cleangreenv2.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{dagerskog2019clean, author = {Dagerskog, Linus and Dickin, Sarah}, title = {{Clean and Green}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = apr, url = {https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sei-2019-brief-cleangreenv2.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }