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and Development Association
BORDA Laos Project Office | DEWATS Introduction | April 2013
BORDA Laos Project Office
DEWATS SERVICE PACKAGES TOWARDS
IMPROVED PUBLIC HEALTH AND PROTECTED
FRESHWATER RESOURCES

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BORDA
Bremen Overseas Research & Development Association BORDA BNS in SEA
⌐ Founded in1977 in Bremen, Germany
⌐ Regions: SEA, South Asia, SA, Latin America, Afghanistan
⌐ Donor | Coop.: BMZ | UNICEF, WSP, GIZ, JICA, AusAID, EU
BORDA Laos Project Office
⌐ MoU with MPWT/DHUP since February 2013
⌐ Focus on: Technical interventions, GoL capacity building,
promotion and developing partnerships
⌐ Target: up-scaling DEWATS in 4 major cities in Laos and
Peri-urban areas

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Mission & Objectives
“The Mission of BORDA is to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged
communities and to keep the environment intact through the expansion of
Basic Needs Services in the areas of decentralized sanitation, water and
energy supply as well as wastewater and solid waste disposal.”
“Improved Sanitation for All”
Promoting improved public health within low income urban and peri-urban
settlements, and the reduction of organic pollution of precious fresh water
sources for the benefit of the Lao people and nation

4. Bremen Overseas Research
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BORDA Laos Project Office | DEWATS Introduction | April 2013
DEWATS Service Packages
DEWATS:
⌐ Community Based Sanitation (CBS)
⌐ School Based Sanitation (SBS)
⌐ Sanitation for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)
⌐ Hospital Sanitation (HoSan)
⌐ Real Estate Sanitation (RESan)
Social Services:
⌐ Community Facilitation (RPA, meetings, CAP)
⌐ Health & Hygiene Education (H&H)
⌐ Operation & Maintenance Training (O&M)
⌐ Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
Solid Waste Management:
⌐ Municipal Sludge Treatment Plants (MSTP)
⌐ Decentralized Solid Waste Management (DESWAM)
Planning, implementation and monitoring:
⌐ Sanitation Mapping (SanMap)
⌐ Prefabrication (PreFab)
⌐ Quality Management
⌐ Monitoring & Evaluation (QMS &MonEv)

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DEWATS Modules
5) Polishing Ponds (Removal of suspended digested solids
and active bacteria mass)
4) Planted Gravel Filter (Removal of
easily and more difficult degradable
organic solids)
3) Anaerobic Baffled Reactor
(Removal of easily degradable organic solids)
1) Settler (Removal of easily settlement solids)
2) Anaerobic Filter (Removal of easily degradable organic solids)

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DEWATS Modules

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BORDA Laos Project Office | DEWATS Introduction | April 2013
DEWATS Modules
Community Based Sanitation in Thongkhankham Village, Vientiane Capital

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DEWATS Social Aspects
 Rapid Participatory Appraisal: Creation of shortlist through
transparent selection process  identifying commitment
 Community Facilitation: Shaping and accompanying the process
of participation  beneficiaries as partners of their own
development
 Set up of Community Based Organizations or School WASH
Committees: Empowering the beneficiaries by creating structures
 responsibility and delegation of duties (O&M, $, H&H)
 Health & Hygiene Education: Training of hygienic behavior
inclusive the creation and dissemination of promotion material
(posters, flip charts, handouts)
 Operation & Maintenance Training: Training in Operation &
Maintenance to enable the community/school to manage the
performance of the plant
 Co-management: supporting existing structures at local authority
level  filling the gap between abilities of the community and
O&M as well as monitoring requirements

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DEWATS Components
 Technical: Customised design considers special conditions of
surrounding areas in (sub-) tropical regions; construction with
local workers and materials [demand responsive]
 Social: Composing of Action Plans including beneficiary based
organisations, Operation and Maintenance (O&M) training,
health and hygiene promotion, Health Impact Assessments (HIA)
[participative]
 Ecological: Protecting and fostering environment by wastewater
treatment up to 90% without removing ecologically valuable
nutrients (fertilisers) [ecological]
 Economical: Multi-source financing (Joint ventures with
government (5-10%), donors (62-84%), NGOs (20-25%) and
beneficiaries (1-3%)) [multi-stakeholder]
 Political: Tackling MDG #4 (decrease child mortality), #5
(eradicate malaria/dengue) and #7 ( access to basic sanitation);
remains complementary to other wastewater treatment solution
 Leagal: Conforms with international wastewater treatment
standards

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DEWATS Fills the Gap!
DEWATS as people centered
decentralized approaches
On site Sanitation systems
Conventional centralized systems

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THANK YOU!
Tobias R. Möller | Project Coordinator
t.moeller@borda-sea.org | www.borda-sea.org