The SASTEP platform organizes various components, systems, role players and resources required to foster a new and emerging sanitation industry in South Africa. Through strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders and policy makers SASTEP seeks to enhance existing policy and regulatory frameworks that will promote, support, and attempt to remove impediments to a new sanitation paradigm. Through providing guidance and support, the programme will champion the harmonization of product and performance standardization to enable the development of suitable sanitation technologies, provide end-users with confidence and assurance, reduce cost, minimize waste, and increase productivity at different levels of the sanitation value chain.