A strategic sanitation planning process involves a wide array of actors. Directly participating (see also Table 2) are:
- Project managers and task team leaders (planners) overseeing the planning process working for a utility, non-governmental organisation, funding agency or a community-based organisation.
- Community-based experts who understand the local context. They will provide the data required for determining the appropriateness of sanitation systems with SaniChoice (e.g. on the availability of several resources, such as water, energy and labour).
- Stakeholders who have to jointly define the decision objectives and agree on the most relevant appropriateness and evaluation criteria. This includes policy makers and decision makers (public health officers or municipal authorities), representatives from utilities and the private sector, the designated users of the proposed sanitation system, potential users of possible sanitation products, as well actors from community-based organizations.
