Effecting household sanitation regulatory enforcement by cooperative agreement

What is it about?

This paper provides evidence from low-income urban communities in a Municipality of Ghana on the barriers to both toilet provision and bye-law enforcement, drawing on household surveys with landlords and tenants. A simple negotiation game (cooperative way of finding amicable solution) involving landlords, tenants and the regulator was organized, and the agreements reached were used to design a cooperative approach to bye-law enforcement for toilet construction.

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Why is it important?

An innovative and progressive approach to a difficult statutory responsibility is offered. Instead of going by the usual expensive and ineffective command-and-control approach to regulatory enforcement, a more flexible, promising and participatory strategy to sanitation bye-laws enforcement is proposed for adoption. The processes, specific roles and responsibilities, agreements and timelines are explicitly shared for audience to enjoy such a masterpiece of scholarly work.

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