Urban Sanitation

VBS-CPR: A joint project

Why urban sanitation is Important?
• Poor sanitation has negative effect on health and economic growth
for a country.

• Improved sanitation results in tangible economic benefits to the

society as well as individuals.

• Sanitation marketplace is proposed as the only sustainable solution to

improve the sanitation in developing countries.
Urban sanitation in Udaipur
• There are varied levels of access to sanitation and varied forms of
sanitation infrastructure in different towns of Udaipur.

• Septic tank is the dominant sanitation system in urban areas of

Udaipur.

• Distance from the Udaipur city seems to be the gradient along which
sanitation infrastructure and access to sanitation varies.
Scope of Study- Household Sanitation
• Identification of Urbanized, Urbanizable and Fringe areas in Udaipur.

• Assessing the existing sanitation market situation-

• Values and satisfaction derived from sanitation services
• Difficulties faced during building, planning or maintaining sanitation services.
• Knowledge and perception about specific hygiene behaviour and sanitation
technologies and practices
Scope of the study- Sanitation industry
• Identifying key players involved into the sanitation industry

• Supply chain of sanitation industry – Raw materials, manufacturing and

distribution

• Features of Sanitation industry –

• Type of businesses involved and their geographical distribution
• Services and produces offered by each business type and their consumer base
• Approaches to managing business, finance and human resources
• Approaches for marketing and promoting the products and services
• Competition in the market and linkage between different players
Scope of Study – Knowledge Dissemination
• 2 workshops
• 1 policy brief
Laws and Rules EPA,1986
Solid Waste
Management Rule,
1986

Water (Prevention
Municipal Laws and Control of
Pollution),1974

FSSM

Employment of
Manual Scavengers
National Building and Dry
Code of India Latrines(Prohibition)
Act
Prohibition of
Employment as
Manual Scavenger
Model Building and their
Bye-Laws rehabilitation act
Roles and Responsibilities

MoUD

Ministry of
Women and State
Child Government
development

FSSM

Ministry of
Social Justice Urban Local
and Bodies
Empowerment

Ministry of
Environment,
Forest and
Climate Change