It was a pleasure to help reach out, the people were thankful

❤️ Immersing myself in my favourite topic of #environmentalhealth today at both the REHIS annual forum & watching Malawi as the #MEHA conference is also on with our fabulous WASHTED, Poly-Malawi team presenting our research! Taonga Mwapasa Kho Luwe Mindy Panulo Kondwani Chidziwisano

One of our greatest strengths at Strathclyde are our partnerships. These are key to us supporting attainment of our global sustainability targets. Check out the final video in series where we explore the power of collaboration further!! #partnerships #strathclyde #retweet

This is an interesting read, check it out!

Throwback to this year's Malawi Environmental Health Association's conference where we shared our DRUM Consortium WASHTED, Poly-Malawi work on exposure pathways to Antimicrobial Resistant pathogens in community settings. mbc.mw/experts-delibe…

Some interesting discussions today, on the roles of different stakeholders in plastic waste management

Ever wondered what exactly people mean when they say something like sanitation must be sustainable or inclusive? We did… So in our latest paper, we thought we’d find out… 🧵(1/x) with Kho Luwe Tracy Morse

We interviewed urban sanitation professionals from six global south cities in South Africa 🇿🇦, Mexico 🇲🇽, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, Malawi 🇲🇼and Tanzania 🇹🇿 what inclusive and sustainable meant to them. (2/x)

In 40% of cases inclusion was interpreted as inclusive of different stakeholders (government, private sector, community organisations) OR inclusive of different aspects of sanitation (toilets, drainage, rubbish collection) (3/x)

In 60% of cases people interpreted it as inclusive of different groups that should benefit from sanitation services and lots of people liked SDG-inspired phrases to describe inclusivity like “leave no-one behind” (4/x)

When pushed they didn’t all agree on who was at risk of being left behind though. Disabled people, women, children, and the poor were often mentioned as needing special attention, especially when local adopted policies or guidelines named these groups. (5/x)

Less visible categorisations (like people with mental rather than physical health challenges) or groups without legal status (LGBTQIA+ in some countries, or those without land tenure) continue to be overlooked in these definitions. (6/x)

There was also limited recognition of the intersectionality of different categorisations and the added challenges that can bring to individuals (7/x)

People from different sectors (government, private, charities, community organisations) agreed that sustainability meant longevity or continuity but had different focuses within the three pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic, and social) (8/x)

Environmental sustainability tended to mean recycling, economic sustainability tended to mean operating in a way where costs were covered without external donor support, and social sustainability tended to mean community ownership. (9/x)

By working together, different actors could be champions for different pillars of sustainability to improve both policy and practice. When writing policy, vague catch-all terms like “for all” should be avoided as they are open to interpretation (10/x)

Our advice? Ask for details of what they mean when people use words like “inclusive” or “sustainable”, and get the whole paper here: doi.org/10.1177/117863… (11/x)

🔥🔥🔥Congratulations Kho Luwe on your 1st publication as 1st author. This was a complex piece of work to pull together in content & geographic coordination! A great piece on the challenge of common language in achieve the #SDGs #inclusion #sanitation journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

It was a pleasure to work on this, very worthwhile and interesting read!