Register for free [click here] to join World Water Week online and participate in SUSWA’s session Improving access to sanitation through market-based solutions in rural Nepal [see session here] on Sunday 20.8.2023 10 am CEST, 1:45 pm Nepal
How can we improve household sanitation in poor, remote villages on mountainsides, with little to no access to markets for sanitation products or knowhow of constructing sustainable and accessible toilets? This is the question Govinda Rokaya asked himself when joining the SUSWA project as Sanitation & Hygiene Specialist.
In the province of Karnali, where the Sustainable WASH for All (SUSWA) project works, 11% do not have toilets and 17% only have temporary toilets. In order to reach Nepal’s target for the Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 of attaining 95% household access to improved toilets, while ensuring that the open defecation free status is maintained in all communities, innovative approaches are required.
Govinda did not fear the challenge and collaborated with iDE Nepal to assess the sanitation market in this complex operational environment and plan interventions in order to promote market-based, low-cost scalable sanitation solutions to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, with a special focus on the needs of women, girls, and persons with disabilities.
Join SUSWA World Water Week session to hear more – panelists also include representatives form UN Habitat and SATO/Lixil.
If you are attending WWW, you can also meet SUSWA and Niras Finland at the Finland-exhibition stand (4:04)!
SUSWA Sanitation Specialist Govinda Rokaya who will hold the session, sharing portable and/or low weight and cost solutions for suppliers and local market committee in Jumla.
Read the Sanitation Market Analysis done in Karnali Province prior to the piloting phase here
Summary
Join us to share experiences on innovative approaches to tackle Sanitation challenges in Nepal, following the successful national ODF campaign. Hear SUSWA project staff from Nepal share their takeaways from working with communities to promote market-based, low-cost, and scalable sanitation solutions in the mountainous Karnali province, in collaboration with iDE.
Session Description
This session will showcase how the Sustainable WASH for All (SUSWA) project is overcoming sanitation challenges by supporting strengthening of the supply chain, innovative technology options, and promoting low-cost solutions that can be carried for days on mountain trails. Hear first-hand experiences from interventions based on the Sanitation in Complex Operational Environments (SCORE) methodology designed by iDE and the challenges of reaching SDG 6 in the Karnali province in western Nepal.
Join the interactive session to ask questions, share ideas, and forge new paths for reaching the SDG on safely managed sanitation in complex environments!
Programme
Mikaela Kruskopf from NIRAS Finland will provide a brief introduction to the SUSWA project and the SUSWA/iDE partnership. Rabindra Karki from iDE will give an overview of the SCORE and MSD approaches, as well as Human-Centered-Design (HCD), as applied in Karnali. Govinda Rokaya from the SUSWA project will present interventions carried out based on the SCORE findings and share feedback directly from the communities related to accessibility, local government engagement, increase in demand, strengthened supply chain, and improved skills and know-how of masons.
Mikaela Kruskopf from NIRAS Finland will provide a brief introduction to the SUSWA project and the SUSWA/iDE partnership.
Rabindra Karki from iDE will give an overview of the SCORE and MSD approaches, as well as Human-Centered-Design (HCD), as applied in Karnali.
Govinda Rokaya from the SUSWA project will present interventions carried out based on the SCORE findings and share feedback directly from the communities related to accessibility, local government engagement, increase in demand, strengthened supply chain, and improved skills and know-how of masons.
The presentation will be followed by breakout sessions on either a market-focused approach or the governments role in reaching SDGs in a post-ODF setting. The panelists in the breakout sessions include Ritesh Thareja, India Leader of SATO business, part of Lixil, Japan, Ramesh Subedi from Karnali provincial Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Sudha Shresta, National Professional Officer in WASH from UN Habitat.
Joins us to discuss with the experts from private sector, INGO and governments, and to share your own experiences in working for improved househol sanitation in complex environments.