Combining sanitation and women's participation in water supply: an example from Rajasthan

Context matters: a multicountry analysis of individual‐ and neighbourhood‐level factors associated with women's sanitation use in sub‐Saharan Africa

“…Recently, however, discussions of factors that may influence sanitation use such as preference, willingness to pay and experiences of health improvements have begun to appear in the literature [12][13][14][15][16]. Some research has also identified psycho-social factors, for example religious and cultural rules as important drivers of sanitation use [11][12][13][14][15][17][18][19].…”

The Urbanization of the Sanitation Crisis: Placing Waste in the City

“…One of the main reasons girls miss and drop out of school is the embarrassment of leaking rags and the lack of provisions in the school context (Lusk‐Stover, ). If the ways in which women and girls see sanitation is pivotal to understanding sanitation poverty, it is remarkable just how often provisions are delivered without engaging them in the design and implementation of those structures (Bapat and Agarwal, ; O'Reilly, ). Men, in contrast, who are already less likely to suffer harassment or attacks, more likely to carve out privacy, more likely to benefit from the distribution of sanitation resources, and less likely to be impacted by, for instance, long queues for toilets (where they often assume or receive preferential treatment), are more likely to have a voice in shaping interventions by the state or other actors — if, of course, those interventions consult residents at all.…”

“…There is a growing and disparate body of research exploring the urban dimensions of the sanitation crisis in the global South (e.g. Joshi et al., ; McFarlane et al., ; O'Reilly, ; Otsuki, ; Satterthwaite et al., ; Thieme, ), but rarely do these accounts position the crisis of human waste fundamentally in the city. In the context of the city, sanitation is far more than simply the safe removal and containment of human waste.…”

Informal Urban Sanitation: Everyday Life, Poverty, and Comparison

“…The first is the challenge of raising awareness about an often-taboo subject (Black and Fawcett 2008;George 2008 (Mara 2012), communities (Mehta and Movik 2012;O'Reilly 2010;Satterthwaite et al 2005;Hobson 2000), nongovernmental organisations (Sharma andBhide, 2005 McFarlane 2008a), the private sector (Castro 2007;Singh 2006;Solo 1999) and donors (Nicol, Mehta and Allouche 2012) represents the second theme. The third inolves the different experiences and perceptions of sanitation across space (Bolaane and Ikgopoleng 2011;Cousens et a, 1996;Jewitt 2011;Joshi et al 2011;Rheinländer et al 2010;Truelove 2011), while the fourth includes the causal relations between human waste, illness and disease (Curtis et al 2000;George 2008).…”