Theme 1: Determinants of vulnerability and resilience

Objective

Assess determinants of vulnerability and resilience in urban settings, pastoral zones, and rural-urban interfaces when addressing health, well being and environmental sanitation. Theme 2: Equity effective interventions to reduce disease burden

Objectives

- Identify and test key interventions for health, environmental sanitation and social systems that reduce health burden.
- Assess how these interventions govern equity-effectiveness, and hence contribute to poverty alleviation in the population studied.
- Assess the external validity and potential to generalize the tested interventions to comparable population groups.
Theme 3: Improved environmental sanitation

Objectives

- Identify determinants of improving environmental sanitation services in urban and peri-urban areas taking into account the dynamics of social systems
- Assess the potential to reduce vulnerability and increase resilience of urban and mobile poor populations through improved environmental sanitation services.
- Testing of alternative methods for improved environmental sanitation planning