The key discussion points within the session, Urban Sanitation Service Delivery: Thinking about scale from the start, include the need for:
- Adoption of an integrated approach to addressing sanitation in Africa
- Flexible Strategic urban planning to allow development and adaptation
- Strategic planning and decision support tools to be accessible online
- Recognition of the key role of local authorities in up-scaling sanitation
- Increased data and up-scaling of both knowledge (including city-to-city exchanges) and implementation in respect to sanitation in Africa
- Enhanced capacity at the local level
- Capacity-building providers to identify country and city specific solutions effective at servicing the poor
- Recognition of financing as a barrier