WSP’s Engagement in the Rural Sanitation Sector in India : Successes and Challenges
In October 2014, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) initiated a study to document its engagement in the rural sanitation sector in India between 2002 and 2013. The intent was to learn from achievements, challenges, and lessons from the past as...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26549455/wsp’s-engagement-rural-sanitation-sector-india-successes-challenges http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24601 |
| Summary: | In October 2014, the Water and
Sanitation Program (WSP) initiated a study to document its
engagement in the rural sanitation sector in India between
2002 and 2013. The intent was to learn from achievements,
challenges, and lessons from the past as the Water Global
Practice of the World Bank and other stakeholders intensify
efforts to address the huge challenge of realizing the
Government of India’s goal of universal rural sanitation in
India by 2019. The study covered a cross-section of eight
states in which WSP has worked as well as an examination of
activities at the national level. The primary source of
information was 138 structured interviews with key
informants including Indian Government officials at all
levels: (a) representatives of development agencies and
civil society organisations; and (b) current and former WSP
staff. The key findings were as follows: (i) Creating
champions is a key determinant of success, and new, more
cost-effective, and scalable approaches must be developed;
(ii) Effective ways must be found to increase awareness and
willingness to act among senior decision makers at state
level; (iii) New implementation models must be developed
that support the work of state governments to roll out
sanitation at scale, and state governments must be supported
to institutionalize them; and (iv) Mechanisms must be found
to support decentralized, large-scale sector capacity
building. These insights will be used to develop future
interventions that will further accelerate change and help
achieve the goal of universal rural sanitation in India |
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