By Yacouba Noël Coulibaly, WSA-Burkina Faso. Prepared for the Monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery symposium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-11 April 2013.

1. Using the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) tool for
Urine Dry Diverting Toilet (UDDT) in Burkina Faso: evaluation
and recommendations for sustainability
Yacouba Noël COULIBALY,
WSA-Burkina Faso
Addis Ababa 9-11 April 2013

2. Outline of the presentation
• Introduction
• Presentation of the study context
• Description of the study methodology
• Presentation of the study findings and discussions
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
WASHTech project: development of
the Technology Applicability
Framework (TAF) tool.
Example of application of the TAF on
Urine Dry Diverting Toilet: show its
usefulness for technology assessment
and introduction.
UDDT is a perceived successful
technology recognized by the national
WASH program but not yet
implemented in scale at country level.

4. Context of the WASHTech study
WASH sector in subsaharan Africa: not lack of new and emerging technologies.
Challenges: adoption of technologies in national strategies and scaling up of the
technologies by private sector.
Constraints: lack of method for assessing the technologies potential and
absence of guidance for in bringing new technologies to scale.
WASHTech project is dealing with these challenges and constraints by
developing the Technology applicability Framework (TAF) tool.

5. Methodology of the study
TAF tool used for analysing UDDT through 4
phases:
Screening: need and applicability of the
technology
Field testing: collect field data related to the
18 indicators of the at Poa in the province of
Boulkiemdé.
Scoring workshop: multidisciplinary
discussions for scoring the indicators using
data collected from field as baseline data for
discussions.

6. Methodology of the study (C’nd)
Presentation of the results:
Findings of the research are presented
through a color-coded symbol (see image).
In terms of process, participants decided
on the most appropriate symbol for each
indicator, based on discussions on the
sub-questions and the guiding questions
used, as well as raw data drawn from the
field.

7. Study findings and discussions
Economic and financial: expensive and highly (1) (2) (3)
subsidised technology (not profitable for a - - 0
private sector).
Social: concept accepted but still a need for (4) (5) (6)
sensitisation on operation and maintenance. + + 0
Environmental: No major impacts but there is a
need for research to highlight some (7) (8) (9)
environmental issues. 0 + +
Institutional and policy: adopted by the
national program for water and sanitation (10) (11) (12)
Knowledge and capacity: skills and capacities + + +
for O&M available but still need continuous
communities sensitisation. (13) (14) (15)
Technology performance: further research + +
needed to take into account some concerns
( women menstruation, anal clean water, (16) (17) (18)
handicaped persons, etc.) + +

8. Study findings and discussions
Technology introduction strategy Government staff at decentralised
revision needed: private sector to do level should help in monitoring UDDT
business on this technology. operation and maintenance.
Research should continue involving key Government should help to put in
actors to explore potential negative place a training program on UDDT
impacts of the use of the sub-products operation and maintenance for staff at
in agriculture and on population health decentralised level to sustain their role
( phytopathology, bacteriology, etc.). in monitoring.
The government could help in scaling Implementation of a multidiciplinary
up at national level by increasing the research group leaded by the
awareness through its staff at government to address some issues for
decentralised level working in WASH. technology improvement.

9. Conclusion
TAF is a useful tool for assessing technology sustainability and introduction in a
specific context.
Challenges faced using the TAF could be the cost and time implications.
Difficulties faced through TAF application included indicators sub-questions
translation into local language.
Benefits of using the TAF are the multidisciplinary discussion and a complete
sustainability dimensions.
Relevant WASH sector involvement through TAF process facilitated its
embedding at national level.
Next step will be the training on TAF of host institution staff

10. Thank you for attention