Sanitation And Hygiene: Promoting Dignity And Human Rights

Access to sanitation facilities is a fundamental human right that safeguards health and human dignity. Every human being deserves to be protected from the many health problems-including dysentery, cholera and other serious infections- posed by poor disposal of excreta. Unless immediate action is taken, the number of people without adequate sanitation will climb to more that 4.5 billion in just 20 years. Hardest hit will be the marginalized poor living in densely populated cities that even today manage to provide only two thirds of their population with sanitation services. This book is about setting in place a process whereby people effect and sustain a hygienic and healthy environment for themselves. It talks about developing programs for more effective investment in sanitation hygiene promotion,. It talks about developing programmes for more effective investment in sanitation and developing projects an it doest not give solution for project level intervention. Rather it lays out a process for long-term change which may encompass institutional transformation of the policy and organizational arrangements for provision of goods and services. ISBN:9788184351682 Yr. of Pub.