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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India
Meeting Unmet Needs
Author(s)
Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Kanti
Dwivedi, Anju
Das Gupta, Sumona
Bharti, Ms
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health.
The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation, especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour, increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions, organising informal sanitation workers, serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy.
Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies, public policy, governance, political science, development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation, urban planning and public policy.
Keywords
Bezwada Wilson;informal settlements;manual scavengers;Sanitation and health;sanitation workers;urban sanitationDOI
10.4324/9781003197102ISBN
9780367768355, 9781003197102, 9781032053363, 9781000886320Publisher
Taylor & FrancisPublisher website
https://taylorandfrancis.com/Publication date and place
2023Imprint
RoutledgeClassification
Urban and municipal planning and policy
Urban communities
Society and culture: general