This book contains the principles amunicipal government should consider before developing acitywide sanitation strategy. In this context, this strategyrefers to a city's strategic mid-term sanitationdevelopment plan, which incorporates vision, missions,objectives and targets as well as specific strategies toimprove sanitation services. Chapter one starts with anintroduction of the background, objectives, concept, and theprocess of a city sanitation development, followed by adescription of the position of the citywide sanitationstrategy within the sanitation development planning process.The remaining chapters describe the steps to develop acitywide sanitation strategy. Chapter's two to sixexplain the five major steps of the process: a) establishinga working group, b) city sanitation mapping, c) defining asanitation development framework, d) preparing a strategyfor sanitation services development, and e) preparing astrategy for development of non-technical aspects. Finally,chapter seven concludes the book with a series of follow-upactivities for implementation upon approval of the citywidesanitation strategy.