WHO’s Sanitation safety planning manual – 2022 edition

The second edition of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Sanitation Safety Planning (SSP) manual includes simplified approaches, greater alignment with WHO Guidelines on sanitation and health, and a deeper focus on climate risk and adaptation

As identified in WHO's Guidelines on sanitation and health, SSP is an absolutely vital step-by-step risk based approach to assist in the implementation of local level risk assessment and management for the sanitation service chain - from containment, conveyance, treatment and end use of disposal.

The 2022 SSP manual is targeted at a variety of users at different levels including health authorities and regulators, local authorities, sanitation utility managers, sanitation enterprises and farmers, community-based organizations, farmers associations and non-governmental organizations.