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Water and Sanitation | How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable -Sheela Patel

How India's slum and pavement dwellers made sanitation affordable -Sheela Patel

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published Published on May 6, 2015   modified Modified on May 6, 2015
-International Institute for Environment and Development Blog

In India, slum and pavement dwellers' organisations have designed and managed a programme of community toilets and washing facilities that are used by hundreds of thousands of households. Guest blogger Sheela Patel describes how this was achieved.

Ongoing monitoring of communal toilets has helped to improve design: here, smaller toilets for children are included in adult toilet blocks. Previously children's facilities were in separate buildings and were frequently left uncleaned (Photo: SPARC)

While the Millennium Development Goals brought attention to the sanitation challenges in cities, it is now evident that the 2015 target for sanitation will not be achieved in many urban areas. Yet in many cities, locally-driven initiatives, involving slum dwellers and grassroots groups, demonstrate that progress can be made.

Today, hundreds of thousands of slum dwellers in India have community toilets and washing facilities, designed and managed by slum dweller organisations. They very often built them too.  The capital costs were mostly funded by local government, with community contributions covering operation and maintenance.

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International Institute for Environment and Development, 5 April, 2015

International Institute for Environment and Development Blog, 5 April, 2015


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