**5. The new paradigm: integration of several sanitation systems under one roof**

Moving beyond business as usual necessitates leadership, vision and building partnerships. The sanitation sector is, and will remain for decades to come, under the overarching respon‐ sibility of the public sector. What can be changed is the mode of operation, adapting it to multi‐ stakeholder settings and fostering enabling environments. The new paradigm, which is advocated in this chapter, could materialise along different axes:


Innovative management schemes need to provide the incentives required by urban sanitation stakeholders to change their mode of operation if the conventional paradigm of top‐down planning and conventional centralised sewerage is to be challenged [13].
