Louisa Gosling

Equity and inclusion in sanitation and hygiene in South Asia - A regional synthesis paper - WSSCC, UNICEF and WaterAid

South Asia faces the problem of exclusion, where different categories of people are not able to access and use safe sanitation facilities, the study says.

Archana Patkar

Henk van Norden

Ravi Narayanan

Posted on 31 Oct, 2011 03:31 PM

This working paper by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), UNICEF and WaterAid highlights the fact that a staggering 716 million men, women and children defecate in the open every day, in South Asia, contributing to the most appalling concentration of poverty and disease and the poorest standards of hygiene in the world.

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