Evidence, solutions, advocacy, and collaboration for India’s sanitation sector
2015 - 2019 • Rice Institute Inc. (Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (rice))
Purpose
To provide support for high-quality research and policy analysis on sanitation in India that can help reduce open defecation and improve children’s health by promoting latrine use.
Activities
In follow up to the SQUAT Report / Switching
Study Grant (India and other countries).
This grant is focused on statistical research
on costs for human welfare of widespread
open defecation in India; to conduct careful
qualitative and quantitative fieldwork
documenting important policy challenges posed
by behaviors, beliefs, and preferences about
sanitation.
These findings will be increasingly
important in helping the sector move from
recognizing the urgency of reducing open
defecation in India to searching for solutions.
Countries of activity
Location of main activity
Further information
Publication:
Where India Goes—Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste
Dean introduced his and Diane Coffey’s book ‘Where India Goes—Abandoned Toilets,
Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste’ which demonstrates India’s exceptional open
defecation is not the result of poverty. It is an enduring consequence of the caste system,
untouchability, and ritual purity
Filter tags
Behaviour change Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation East Asia & Pacific Health and hygiene Specific to one or several countries University, education or research institution
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