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Discussion about entry: Improving Urban Poor’s Access to Sanitation:Community-Led Sanitation Program, Sangli, India
This is discussion about Improving Urban Poor’s Access to Sanitation:Community-Led Sanitation Program, Sangli, India.
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Hello Pratima, It's exciting to have your entry in the competition. Great work! For that sake of folks who do not know what GIS Mapping is, could you please give a description? That would be helpful. Also, would the way in which you use GIS Mapping be easily replicated to other
You mention that your Sangli model aligns itself with the government's urban reform linked program. Can you explain a bit more about this alignment? Does these mean that you designed the reform program together? Has your work influenced the government program? If so, in what ways? Does your alignment include financing? I would love to have a better understanding of how your partnership with the government works.
How do you measure your impact? I see that you have Partnered with Conn. College. How did that come about? Is there any chance that you could partner with other Universities?
Lastly, what is the broader potential to expand your work to other regions?
Thank you for your responses.
Dana Frasz
Changemakers
Dear Dana
Thanks for the mail. I have tried to answer your questions below:
1. To put it simply, GIS or Georgraphic Information Systems allow mapping and socio economic data to be integrated which helps in querying spatial data and seeing results spatially. I am pasting a link to an article 'Intelligent Information' which helps understand the use of GIS for poverty mapping very clearly.
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/apr/pov-gis.htm
2. Our work in Sangli has helped show the limitations of government policies on sanitation. For instance the Nirmal Abhiyan funds could not be used for individual toilets even when it was feasible and did not require any additional funds than what was already allocated for community toilets for a settlement. The rigid framing of rules disallowed the use of these funds in slums where individual/shared toilets were eventually provided through Cities Alliance funding. We have been able to demonstrate through our GIS based poverty mapping, that there cannot be 'a typical solution' for all slums in a city.There is a need to provide a range of options thats in accordance with ground realities. Also in the long run, community toilets are a stop gap arrangement and it is in the interest of the city and the beneficiaries to ultimately provide every house with a toilet.
3. There has been a major attitudinal shift regarding Sanitation in Sangli. The local body is already engaged in cost sharing where 40% of the total cost for individual toilets is provided by them, 20% by the beneficiaries and 40% through the CA funds. As CA funds decrease, the local government is committed to increasing their share proportionately.
4. Dr. Bhatia of Connecticut college saw our website and got in touch with us. It has been entirely his efforts to form FSA with students and staff members. We would be happy to partner with other universities too.
Dear Pratima-ji,
Creating the maps is an element in long term work...I suggest, though, that you read the entries which have been posted in this forum by other "contestants" as I see many different ideas of products and services which I believe could be rapidly implemented and adopted to improve the sanitary conditions and health of your constituents.
Best regards,
Brian