Evidence, solutions, advocacy, and collaboration for India’s sanitation sector 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.
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.
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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 purityWebsite of rice institute (research projects)
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