ARCHITECT’S ROLE TOWARDS ACHIEVING EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION IN URBAN CITIES OF NIGERIA

Abstract

The millennium declaration adopted in September 2000 is a global development agenda that comprises a set of mutually reinforcing development goals, targets and indicators, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The millennium Development Goals represent a renewed global effort around; eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability on access to safe drinking water and environmental sanitation, and finally developing a global partnership for development. Millennium Development Goal 7 (MDG7) focuses on environmental priorities related to sustainable development on access to safe drinking water and environmental sanitation. This paper therefore discusses the role an architect plays in shaping and subsequently improving the quality of the urban environment towards achieving an effective sanitation in Nigerian Urban cities. It also looks at the challenges and workable institutional framework architectural educators have in the impartation of ideas, information and knowledge on how to enhance the built environment and sustain the ecosystem for human survival towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in sanitation sector by 2015.