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The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered … improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used … percent of households have access to private sanitation facilities; the remaining 78 percent share their toilet with an …
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against women. In recent years, however, women successfully demand private sanitation facilities from potential husbands as a … strong sanitation preferences drive male investment in toilets. Moreover, I demonstrate women’s ability to secure latrines … increases when they are relatively scarce in a marriage market. I test these predictions empirically by studying a sanitation …
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that the majority of Kampala’s urban poor have access to on-site sanitation facilities. Despite the widespread … accessibility to sanitation, the conditions of many facilities are unsatisfactory due to the generally large number of users per … questioning the true level of sanitation access in Kampala’s low-income areas. Household investment in good-quality on …
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family welfare, and water supply and sanitation for fifteen major states. It uses two principal indicators namely the per …
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This paper examines how the neoliberal policies have influenced the water sector reform policies and interventions in India, particularly, in the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. In doing so, the paper tries to engage with three questions: a) what are the national and state-level responses...
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There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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India has embarked upon an economic model driven by the free market incorporating processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. Our children today live, in what some describe as “Brand India†which has the tenth highest GDP in the world. Even while the country is...
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The urgent task ahead is the reduction of the visible inequalities in education, health and housing, thus contributing to a broad based evolution of human capabilities. As for the macroeconomic environment to assist in the cashing in of the capabilities, the higher level of equality in...
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To explore the relationship between government and BRAC in the implementation of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH …
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Bangladesh faces multiple challenges in the sanitation, hygiene and water sector. This study aims to review the damage … to sanitation facilities during floods. It also explored the possibilities of overcoming the negative impacts of floods … on sanitation. The study was conducted among 880 households from selected flood affected areas of BRAC WASH programme …
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