A description of how three communities in Ibadan, Nigeria, tackled the problem of waste disposal and drainage improvement. A community diagnosis used numerous research methodologies, including survey, participant and non-participant observation, group discussions, and home visits to establish a baseline and design a community intervention and evaluation. The three community approaches are compared, the differences analyzed, and the strengths of one intervention emphasized.
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