Sanitation Workers
We believe that professionalizing sanitation services delivery and ensuring safety, dignity, and welfare of sanitation workers is critical to achieving sustained WASH outcomes.
We believe that professionalizing sanitation services delivery and ensuring safety, dignity, and welfare of sanitation workers is critical to achieving sustained WASH outcomes.
Despite improvements in WASH infrastructure, chronic gaps in service levels and service quality remain.
Life expectancy of a sanitation worker in India is 48 years, a full decade less than the average.
More than 100 deaths reported due to unsafe sanitation practices every year, and many more remain unreported.
Sanitation work has become a hereditary profession, with low income, and is not accorded the dignity it deserves.
We help cities adopt data driven approach to understand the risks, identify gaps, engage communities, and take action for clean toilets, safe wastewater management, and reuse of treated wastewater.
Our programs impact change at an ecosystem level - from grassroots to policy making.
sanitation workers trained
Mission Shakti SHGs trained in Odisha
workers' data captured in one national level dashboard
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WASH Institute has prepared a training module for ASHA workers focusing on WASH. The training aims to build ASHA and health care workers to deliver IEC messages related to solid waste management, clean drinking water, sanitation, mosquito breeding control, and hygiene and health of sanitation workers. This is a 4-hour, in-person training. As part of the module, the institute has also developed a flipbook for the ASHA workers, which they can use during their door-to-door campaigns. This flipbook is available in English and Telugu. This is the Telugu version of the flipbook.
WASH Institute has prepared a training module for ASHA workers focusing on WASH. The training aims to build ASHA and health care workers to deliver IEC messages related to solid waste management, clean drinking water, sanitation, mosquito breeding control, and hygiene and health of sanitation workers. This is a 4-hour, in-person training. As part of the module, the institute has also developed a flipbook for the ASHA workers, which they can use during their door-to-door campaigns. This flipbook is available in English and Telugu. This is the English version of the flipbook.
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