Sanitation Projects

It is estimated that at least 2.6 billion people (around 41% of global population) do not have access to latrines or any sort of basic sanitation facilities. To highlight the issue, UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. The aim is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.

Availability of water is the primary concern for sanitation programmes.

FWF found that sanitation is very much links with ownership of land and availability of water. Where ownership of land is at stake, community sanitation is found successful. But the most crucial fact in the successful management of the community sanitation project is the ownership of the community sanitation itself. Where ever the community participation is not guaranteed at the implementation phase, the benefactors don’t own the project and in all such instances the future management of the project was at stake.

Awareness campaigns are often found yielding good results.