Who can use the Sanitation Asset Standard?

Anyone working on sanitation: service providers, government regulators and development partners. The standard is published as a public good, so using it does not depend on a licence, a project, or on all your data living in one system.

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Why this matters

A data standard only pays off when the other institutions along the service chain can adopt it too. If it is tied to one organisation's software or one donor's project, it fragments again the moment the project ends. Open availability is what lets a regulator, a utility and an NGO describe the same septic tank the same way, and what makes it safe for a ministry to build national reporting on top of it.

How to do it

  1. Check where your organisation sits on the sanitation service chain: containment, emptying, transport, treatment, reuse or disposal.
  2. Adopt the standard's asset types for the parts of the chain you are responsible for.
  3. Agree with the other institutions you exchange data with on which asset types and identifiers you will each use.
  4. Reference the standard in terms of reference and data-sharing agreements, so future data arrives already comparable.

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