More than 75% of Arusha population lives in unplanned settlements which are characterized by poorsanitation. This paper aimed at exploring opportunities and challenges of implementing resourceoriented sanitation in informal settlements of Arusha. The study aims at developing mechanism forintegrating resource oriented sanitation in informal settlements. The study revealed that, housing or landownership is among of the challenges in implementing resource oriented sanitation in these settlements.It was also observed that 35% of households do not own land; as such do not see the need of improvingsanitation system. Also limited space to extent that becomes difficult to construct another toilet or emptywhen one is full, lack of awareness and the adoption of supply driven approach which do not considerpeoples demand. The paper assessed ability and willingness to pay for resource oriented sanitationselected case studies.
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