Health, Hygiene & Sanitation

Three of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are directly related to sanitation. These are: reducing child mortality, combating diseases, and ensuring environmental sustainability.

The poor sanitation that exists in most of India’s urban areas has a serious impact on environmental health and quality of life. Past attempts at improvement have had limited success.

Our experience suggests that better sanitation requires an innovative approach to tenure and partnership between local communities and local governments, as well as financial resources.

Shelter Associates and Baandhani have worked together on access to sanitation for twelve years, and have successfully implemented innovative projects in the cities of Pune and Sangli and in Khuldabad in the Aurangabad district.