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The Badaun murder: violence, vulnerability and safer sanitation

By |January 14th, 2016|

Guest Post by Shilpi Srivastava, DPhil Student, Institute of Development Studies, originally published by STEPS Centre http://steps-centre.org/2014/blog/badaun-murder-violence-safer-sanitation/ The heinous rape and murder of two teenaged girls in the Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh (India) has provoked a mix of outrage and debates across the globe. Among [...]

Can Uttar Pradesh unleash the untapped potential of CLTS in India?

By |January 14th, 2016|

By Dr. Kamal Kar India is home to 58% of the world’s open defecators and Uttar  Pradesh (U.P.), India’s largest and most populous state contributes significantly to India’s poor sanitation status. The population density of open defecators in the state of U.P. is one [...]

Kalyani: An example of a sustained community-led initiative

By |January 14th, 2016|

By Kamal Kar with Preetha Prabhakaran For comprehensive and effective sanitation planning and implementation in urban and peri-urban areas, the full participation and engagement of all stakeholders, particularly the local community members, at all stages of planning and services delivery is essential. Here it [...]

Inclusive action and empowered communities are key to sanitation goal

By |October 10th, 2015|

The SDG zero draft, in relation to sanitation, is a significant advance on the MDGs. Sanitation is implicitly recognized as a public good that must reach all for the benefits to be enjoyed by all. Open defecation must be eradicated if safe sanitation is [...]

The road to 2015: CLTS experiences and challenges

By |August 14th, 2014|

I was recently invited to IDS as part of an EPSRC-funded solid waste management project, ‘A Global Solution to Protect Water by Transforming Waste’, a unique initiative that focuses on addressing the problems of safe disposal of human excreta, by using anaerobic digestion technology to [...]

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