Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria
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| author | Olusola, Olapeju Olasunkanmi |
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| spelling | oai:openscience.utm.my:123456789/5212023-09-25T10:45:34Z Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria Olusola, Olapeju Olasunkanmi Defecation--Social aspects Feces Thesis (PhD.) Open defecation eradication strategies such as the adoption of punitive measures, subsidies provision and behavioural change tactics had not significantly improved the global scourge, with over 800 million people still defecating in the open. Several authors agreed that the quest for open defecation eradication would become more effective through means that incentivise households to invest in the construction and maintenance of sanitation facilities. One such means is the leveraging of the reusability of faecal waste in encouraging households to be more selfishly prone to considering containment of their faeces a profitable venture. However, there is still a gap between the knowledge of faecal waste reuse and actual premiums placed on the resource by households owing to several factors such as culture, social, economics, environment, technology, and awareness. This study aims at assessing open defecation within the state of Ogun in Nigeria, with a view to adopting measures towards effective faecal waste management. These research measures were carried out in assessing the viability of reuse towards effective faecal waste management. Firstly, the households' sanitation profile was investigated. Next, the psychological dimension to why households who are not deprived of toilets still openly defecate was explored. Then, the significant factors of faecal waste reuse were estimated; and finally, planning measures that adopted the participatory approach were explored as complementary means of discouraging open defecation. The convergent parallel design variant of the mixed-mode technique was adopted in this study. Using a four-level multi-stage approach, questionnaires were administered to a total of 330 households. The qualitative segment involved the interview approach to elicit complementary information from stakeholders in the sanitation value chain. Findings showed that most of the households (51.7 percent) used non-recovery faecal waste management methods such as pits' burying and shrinkage of sludge with chemicals. In the logistic modelling of the psychological factors explaining why households still defecate in the open, an indicator of the risk factor was more significant in the tendency of households, where toilets are shared, to still defecate in the open. Moreover, an indicator of the norm factor would explain why households who do not share toilets still defecate in the open. The pooled confirmatory factor analysis done to estimate the significant factors of reusability took the form of several re-estimations,based on the deletion of lowly loading factors and correlation of redundant items, validation of the model, assessment of normality,and full structural model analysis. The structural model established a significant positive relationship between environmental/health factors of faecal waste reusability and reusability factor(ß=0.727, p<0.05), and similarly, between economic factors of faecal waste reusability and reusability factor (ß=0.715, p<0.05). But potential users of faecal waste, except for the farmers, were unaware of the reuse opportunities associated with faecal waste. This study, among others, recommends that the economic and environmental opportunities in the faecal waste management value chain be better coordinated by institutional regulators. Faculty of Built Environment & Surveying 2023-07-31T08:15:02Z 2023-07-31T08:15:02Z 2020 Thesis Dataset http://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/521 en application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
| spellingShingle | Defecation--Social aspects Feces Olusola, Olapeju Olasunkanmi Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title | Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title_full | Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title_fullStr | Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title_short | Open defecation and effective faecal waste management in Ogun State, Nigeria |
| title_sort | open defecation and effective faecal waste management in ogun state nigeria |
| topic | Defecation--Social aspects Feces |
| url | http://openscience.utm.my/handle/123456789/521 |
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