Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide

Following the launch of the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP, 2008), a number of initiatives were taken: states formulated their State Sanitation Strategies, and more than 150 cities drafted or are in the process of drafting the City Sanitati...

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Published: World Bank, New Delhi 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26547995/community-slum-sanitation-india-practitioner’s-guide
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spelling okr-10986-247582021-05-25T08:49:56Z Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide World Bank Group urban sanitation slums Following the launch of the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP, 2008), a number of initiatives were taken: states formulated their State Sanitation Strategies, and more than 150 cities drafted or are in the process of drafting the City Sanitation Plans (CSPs, by March 2014). The NUSP recommended development of special strategies for slums and poor settlements as an integral part of the CSPs. But the significant presence of slums in Indian cities (estimated between 9 and 14 million, or 12 to 16 percent of India’s 79 million urban households), and the specific difficulties that these settlements face in accessing basic sanitation (and other) services, demanded a greater understanding of the conditions, and exploration of strategies used to address these. Section one presents a short introduction to the context of urban India and urban sanitation, followed by a brief review of programmatic responses by GoI to improve slum sanitation services. Thereafter, the guide draws out the critical factors or drivers using examples from successful community slum sanitation initiatives reported from the urban centers selected for this study. A set of generic activity clusters and steps are included at the end the preparatory, planning, implementation, and M&E stages of community sanitation initiatives. 2016-08-02T16:26:51Z 2016-08-02T16:26:51Z 2016-03 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26547995/community-slum-sanitation-india-practitioner’s-guide http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24758 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, New Delhi Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper South Asia India
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Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide
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description Following the launch of the National Urban Sanitation Policy (NUSP, 2008), a number of initiatives were taken: states formulated their State Sanitation Strategies, and more than 150 cities drafted or are in the process of drafting the City Sanitation Plans (CSPs, by March 2014). The NUSP recommended development of special strategies for slums and poor settlements as an integral part of the CSPs. But the significant presence of slums in Indian cities (estimated between 9 and 14 million, or 12 to 16 percent of India’s 79 million urban households), and the specific difficulties that these settlements face in accessing basic sanitation (and other) services, demanded a greater understanding of the conditions, and exploration of strategies used to address these. Section one presents a short introduction to the context of urban India and urban sanitation, followed by a brief review of programmatic responses by GoI to improve slum sanitation services. Thereafter, the guide draws out the critical factors or drivers using examples from successful community slum sanitation initiatives reported from the urban centers selected for this study. A set of generic activity clusters and steps are included at the end the preparatory, planning, implementation, and M&E stages of community sanitation initiatives.
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title Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide
title_short Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide
title_full Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide
title_fullStr Community Slum Sanitation in India : A Practitioner’s Guide
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