The Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support program and OVERDUE organized a Side Event at the UNC 2022 Water and Health Conference:
👇 Recording of the session now available! 👇
Description of the session
Monday, October 24th | 8:30 AM (EDT) Windflower Room & online
THE INVISIBLE WORKFORCE: HOW TO VALUE WOMEN’S ROLE IN SANITATION?
Like in many other sectors, women in sanitation have been mostly recognised as beneficiaries, users, or participants. However, there are a range of women working across the sanitation chain, in public, private and informal settings.
This learning workshop will provide an opportunity to recognise the role and contributions of women in sanitation, using digital campaigns as one of the tools for advocacy. It aims to enrich the understanding of the challenges and barriers faced by women working in sanitation as well as discuss options to improve their working conditions.
Check out other TNUSSP contributions:
DECODING WORKERS’ SAFETY IN URBAN SANITATION: LESSONS FROM RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Monday, October 24th | 1:30 PM (EDT) | Sunflower Room | Recorded video session will be posted online
Convenor: The World Bank Co-convenor: IIHS
The occupational health and safety of sanitation workers continues to remain a key concern. It is influenced by the informal nature of their work, as well as larger structural issues. Safety challenges also differ according to the role played by the workers.
Shifting the focus beyond mere provisioning of PPE, this learning workshop aims to enable deeper discussions around safety. It will draw on work done on the ground in India, as well as from international studies, to highlight the structural issues around safety and its shared responsibility. The session will offer a space to share challenges and innovations, while aiming to find a way forward towards improving occupational health and safety of sanitation workers.
SCALING URBAN SANITATION IN TAMIL NADU, INDIA: KEY LESSONS AND CHALLENGES
Friday, October 28th | 8:30 AM (EDT) | Sunflower Room |In-Person and Live-Streamed
Co-convenor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) has been involved in effecting improvements along the entire urban sanitation chain in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Through an IIHS-led Technical Support Unit, TNUSSP has been assisting the Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) to scale and operationalise Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) in 649 towns and cities.
This learning session will delve into the Programme’s interventions, offering insights on innovations and challenges in areas of infrastructure, services, governance, capacity building, and behaviour change and communications. The session will discuss the nuances of approaches and solutions that have facilitated the scaling of FSM in Tamil Nadu and draw out lessons for other contexts.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
TNUSSP will present four posters on the following topics:
- Private De-sludging Markets: Does a One-Size Approach Fit All?
- The Call of Duty: Institutionalising Periodic Desludging of Community and Public Toilets in Trichy
- Feasibility of Bacteria Inoculum Bio-digester model for Upgrading Onsite Sanitation Systems
- Improvement of Household-scale Disinfection of Onsite Sanitation Systems using Chlorine Tablet