Asivikelane service delivery impacts counter

Water

1258

SANITATION

1695

REFUSE REMOVAL

1983

Infrastructure

147

SYSTEMS IMPACTS

RESIDENTS IMPACTED

9577044

Since March 2020

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Sanitation

Sanitation

Manage temporary sanitation in informal settlements: lessons from Asivikelane

5 Jun 2025

Urban municipalities often struggle to provide permanent sanitation to informal settlements, relying on temporary solutions like chemical toilets and VIP latrines. These often face issues such as high costs, poor maintenance, and community rejection, remaining in place long-term despite their shortcomings. In our latest learning paper, Asivikelane’s insights highlight solutions to improve sanitation and address the lack of municipal planning for permanent infrastructure.

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Briefs & Reports, Sanitation

Provision of sanitation in the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality

4 Nov 2024

This detailed brief looks at the availability of communal water and sanitation services across 6 informal settlements in Mangaung and asks residents what their interim sanitation needs are.

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Briefs & Reports, Sanitation

Summary of key results of communal services for Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality’s informal settlements

1 Oct 2024

Asivikelane mapped broken communal flush toilets, taps and standpipes across 10 informal settlements to determine the extent of damaged infrastructure. We share this information with the metro to help improve access to water and sanitation and make recommendations for fault reporting mechanisms.

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Briefs & Reports, Sanitation

Summary of key results of the state of Ventilated Improved Pit Toilets in informal settlements in the City of Johannesburg

20 Sep 2024

Ventilated Improved Pit Toilets are a critical intervention to ensure that residents in informal settlements have access to dignified and safe sanitation. Asivikelane recommends which policies are needed to provide for the lifespan of these toilets, how to repair and maintain them and when and how they should be decommissioned.

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Releases, Sanitation, Western Cape

Asivikelane Western Cape #13: Knysna and Stellenbosch – Let’s make sanitation accessible to all

11 Sep 2023

Asivikelane Western Cape #13 Sanitation availability has improved in Knysna and Stellenbosch. But communal toilets are not accessible to everyone, and residents urge municipalities to improve sanitation access, hygiene and safety.

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National Releases, Refuse Removal, Releases, Sanitation, Water

Asivikelane #35: The state of informal settlement service delivery in metros

6 Mar 2023

Asivikelane #35 Data exposes the hot spots where basic services need attention, and celebrates the good news where services have improved.

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Releases, Sanitation, Western Cape

Asivikelane Western Cape #6: Knysna and Stellenbosch – Who should be cleaning communal toilets?

6 Oct 2022

Asivikelane Western Cape #6 calls on Knysna and Stellenbosch municipalities to step up basic services, especially the provision and cleaning of communal toilets.

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Releases, Sanitation, Western Cape

Asivikelane Western Cape #8: WC residents have solutions for better sanitation. They ask government to listen

1 Dec 2021

In this final Asivikelane WC report for 2021, informal settlement residents have yet again urged local government to listen and respond to their urgent pleas for safer and more hygienic sanitation. Communities are saying that they have practical, short-term solutions that are simple for government to implement; yet able to drastically improve dignified sanitation for all.

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National Releases, Releases, Sanitation

Asivikelane #23: Sanitation is not complicated – just ask residents

24 Nov 2021

For this edition of Asivikelane #23, we ask informal settlement residents themselves what sanitation they need.

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Releases, Sanitation, Western Cape

Asivikelane Western Cape #7: Please give us safe sanitation after the elections

27 Oct 2021

Asivikelane WC release #7 In this month’s Asivikelane Western Cape report, informal settlement residents are sending a clear message – their communities are not safe, the shared toilets are dirty and poorly located and the lack of public lighting puts them at risk of being assaulted.

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