Papers, presentations and photo essays
Papers, presentations and photo essays for the South Asia Sanitation and Hygiene workshop in Dhaka 2012
Introductory paper Asia practitioners'workshop 2012: By all and forever
Efforts to achieve sustainability, to ensure equity and to monitor effectively are central to the sanitation and hygiene programming and are the themes of the Practitioners Workshop. These issues are addressed in 23 papers from six countries providing a rich collection of research, data analysis and case studies that address crucial issues. The workshop papers are introduced in relation to each of the themes along with reflection about their findings and recommendations. Relevant lessons from the practitioners workshops in 2008 and 2010 are also briefly presented. A table at the end lists all papers and their main conclusions.
6B Approach for toilet promotion - Nepal
The 6B approach has been initiated to ensure that improved sanitation is affordable to all. This approach encourages people to have a toilet as per their financial status and enhances capacity to utilize locally available materials. Six B promotes toilet superstructures made of Bag, Bush, Bamboo, Brick, Block or Boulder.
Challenges acknowledged but ignorance continued: WASH deprivation of excluded community intensified- Bangladesh
Reaching socially and geographically isolated groups is one of the major problems faced by the development community and respective governments. In successive progress reports on MDGs (2007 and 2009), the Government of Bangladesh acknowledged that there are poverty pockets where benefits of development are not reaching as per needs.
Children with camera: knowledge sharing for changing sanitation of society - Nepal - photo essay
Photo essay capturing different scenes related to sanitation and environment photographed by students of a high school in Nepal. The photographs with their interpretations were displayed in a photo exhibition during a ceremony to declare their school open defecation free in 2009. This essay is based on that photo exhibition.
Decentralized institutional mechanisms for mainstreaming efforts of concerned stakeholders to achieve the national goal of basic sanitation coverage...
This paper describes the efforts that have led to the national Sanitation and Hygiene Master Plan 2011. The unique feature of the SHMP-2011 is that it has recognized the multi-stakeholder collaboration and campaign approach in total sanitation promotion and introduced different strategic coordinating bodies/institutions at central, regional, district, municipality and Village Development Committee levels.
Eco-toilet : an ecological sanitation option for difficult areas of Bangladesh
This paper describes a 16-month action research project called “Ecological Alternatives in Sanitation in Difficult Areas of Bangladesh”. Practical Action Bangladesh and its partner NGOs were engaged as the technical agency for implementation of the project. The major objective of the action research was to try out innovative eco-toilet options appropriate for difficult areas (urban slums, Hoar, hilly, Barind track and flood prone) of Bangladesh.
Efforts to reach sanitation and hygiene for vulnerable groups in Sri Lanka
The paper focuses on the experience gained and on the success of the efforts made by the National Water Supply and Drainage Board to reach poor and vulnerable people with sanitation and hygiene through community-based organisations.
Faecal sludge management in Bangladesh: an issue that needs urgent attention
The rapid increase of fixed-place defecation has created a new challenge for faecal sludge management in Bangladesh. In the city, this challenge is acute due to factors like high population density, rapid and unplanned growth, inadequate service provisions and so on.
Formative Research on Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviours Current Status, Knowledge, Attitudes, Barriers and Enablers: Primary Research Findings - India
Hygiene behaviours in WASH need to be studied from a local context. There is no shortcut to working on behaviour change, without going directly to listen to and observe the reasons for prevailing hygiene practices in the contexts in which these are practised. There is dearth of formative research on hygiene behaviours. This research was conducted in Vaishali district of Bihar in mid-2011. It looks at prevailing status, knowledge, attitudes, barriers and enablers for key hygiene behaviours.
Hygiene and sanitation behavior change efforts in vulnerable communities of western Nepal
This paper describes the lessons learned from a Finnish-Nepali government project on community-led total behaviour change in hygiene and sanitation. It focuses on changing hygienic behaviour with Small Doable Actions.
