Pavement dwellers' sanitation activities — visible but ignored

Joshi, Deepa; Morgan, Joy Elmer

doi:10.3362/0262-8104.2007.007

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“…The same is considered unacceptable for women, and no women were found urinating publicly during data collection. However, complementing previous research (see, for example, Joshi and Morgan, 2007), some participants mentioned women doing so at night, especially during the morning darkness before sunrise with privacy being a major concern. This is not common and usually occurs on railway tracks near slums.…”

Section: Lack Of Consideration For Women and Childrensupporting

confidence: 64%

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Public accountability failure in solving a public nuisance: stakeholder disengagement in a clash of Western and Islamic worldviews

Islam

Rahim

Kuruppu

2023

AAAJ

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PurposeThis paper examines the link between the failure of public accountability and stakeholder disengagement brought about by a New Public Management (NPM) style “smart solution” introduced to reduce public urination in Dhaka city. It shows how New Public Governance (NPG), Islamic and dialogic approaches can improve decision-making and solutions.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the concepts of public accountability, NPM, NPG and dialogic accountability, this study highlights how narrow conceptions of accountability and poor stakeholder engagement impacted the effectiveness of the “smart solution” based on data collected through observation and unstructured in-depth interviews.FindingsEvidence suggests that narrow conceptions of accountability driven by monologic NPM perspectives led to poor stakeholder engagement, which impacted the effectiveness of the “smart solution”. The solution that consists of changing anti-urination signage from Bengali to Arabic script has not solved Dhaka's public urination problem. In many instances, the solution has disenchanted certain stakeholders who view it as an offence against Islam and a confusing de-privileging of the Bengali language which has significant national and cultural value in Bangladesh.Originality/valueThe findings of the study contribute to policymaking discussions on how to effectively engage with stakeholders and extend the literature on accountability within the context of conflicting public versus private demands related to a public nuisance. The study outlines important issues related to stakeholder engagement and introduces a framework that conceptualises how to increase the effectiveness of public policy decisions using NPG, Islamic and dialogic accountability approaches, especially on matters that require significant public/external stakeholder support. It also provides a conceptual integration of these various approaches, including nuanced insights into accountability challenges within “non-Western” contexts.

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Section: Lack Of Consideration For Women and Childrensupporting

confidence: 64%

“…In the Bangladeshi context, it is socially accepted (with a certain level of disgust) that men urinate on the street (Joshi and Morgan, 2007). The same is considered unacceptable for women, and no women were found urinating publicly during data collection.…”

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Public accountability failure in solving a public nuisance: stakeholder disengagement in a clash of Western and Islamic worldviews

Islam

Rahim

Kuruppu

2023

AAAJ

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“…An extensive literature examines inequalities in access to sanitation, highlighting how unequal urban sanitation particularly affects poor and disempowered groups such as migrants, lower castes and landless slum-dwellers, who are often considered 'illegal' and 'invisible' [29,32,[50][51][52]. The existing literature also elaborates on how institutional complexities intersect with challenges related to poverty including tenure insecurity, social marginalisation and political discrimination [5,[53][54][55][56][57][58] and power relations through neo-colonialist neglect of subjugated populations and notions of purity and pollution to exacerbate unequal access to sanitation [28,59].…”

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“…These include wider social and power hierarchies of caste, ethnicity and gender [28]. Compounded by economic and geographical disadvantage, poor and disempowered groups -in particular migrants, lower castes, and landless slum-dwellers -are often exposed to significant vulnerabilities, and trapped into endemic cycles of poverty and ill being and denied their human rights to safe water and sanitation [17,29]. This social differentiation manifests not only in poor or unequal access to safe sanitation, but the impacts of this denial also affect issues such as work and time burdens and increases risks of sexual harassment and violence for women, [30,31].…”

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Neglected second and third generation challenges of urban sanitation: A review of the marginality and exclusion dimensions of safely managed sanitation

Bhatkal,

Mehta,

Sumitra

2024

PLOS Water

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Sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing yet cities, especially in the global South, face challenges in providing safely managed sanitation systems. Global and national sanitation campaigns tend to focus on the visible aspects of being ‘on grid’ in terms of toilet construction and connections but rarely address the dangerous, invisible aspects of being ‘off grid’ such as poor or unsafe excreta disposal and inadequate faecal sludge management (often considered to be second or third generation sanitation challenges). These, however, tend to disproportionately affect poor and marginalised people in off-grid locations in rapidly urbanising areas. This review paper engages critically with the growing literature on the challenges of faecal sludge management and circular economy solutions. Through the lens of exclusion and marginality, we review debates regarding access to safely managed sanitation, the burden of sanitation workers and safely recovering value from shit. We argue that sanitation systems often reproduce and exacerbate existing societal hierarchies and discriminations in terms of unequal access to safely managed sanitation and the burden of maintaining sanitation infrastructures. It is thus important for future research on faecal sludge management and resource recovery from shit to focus on issues of marginality and exclusion.

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“…What alternatives are there for this community to practise adequate, safe, and dignified sanitation? Joshi and Morgan (2007) reported on the sanitation practices of pavement dwellers:…”

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Innovations for Urban Sanitation

Myers¹,

Cavill²,

Musyoki³

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'The urban sanitation sector suffers from a lack of effective engagement with the people who will use the services. Developments are usually driven by engineers, technology and regulations, with little heed paid to the capacities, aspirations, motivations and affordability of the sanitation services to the user. Innovations for Urban Sanitation: Adapting community-led approaches contributes to redressing that balance and giving voice to the community and sanitation users. This useful new book applies what has been learned from using participatory tools in rural and urban sanitation to provide practical approaches to partner better with communities in urban sanitation projectsbig and small. As a workbook it provides a menu of tools and techniques to mix and match for different types of urban sanitation project. Projects and programmes which systematically use these approaches will achieve better community engagement and increased ownership and thus improve the sustainability and outcomes of urban sanitation investments. ' Isabel Blackett, Consultant, Inclusive Sanitation in Practice (ISP) 'A timely and valuable book for anyone wanting to better understand the complexities of CLTS in urban settings. Author and organization biographiesJamie Myers -Research Officer based at the Institute of Development Studies, looking at the use of CLTS and other similar community-based participatory processes in rural, peri-urban and urban environments.Sue Cavill -Freelance consultant with over 17 years of experience in the WASH sector, from implementing programmes to policy research and analysis.Samuel Musyoki -Country Director, Plan International Zambia with a background in anthropology and over 18 years experience as a trainer in participatory development processes.Katherine Pasteur -Freelance consultant working alongside The CLTS Knowledge Hub, The CLTS Foundation, and NGOs such as Practical Action to document the evolving experiences and lessons from CLTS practice around the world.Lucy Stevens -Policy & Practice Adviser at Practical Action with 10 years of experience leading learning initiatives in urban WASH and waste management. Institute of Development Studies (IDS)is a leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications, based at the University of Sussex. IDS have been working in support of CLTS for over a decade. During this time CLTS has become an international movement.Plan International is a development and humanitarian organization that advances children's rights and equality for girls. They use the CLTS approach in countries across Africa and Asia and in peri-urban and urban areas in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Zambia.Practical Action is an international NGO that uses technology to challenge poverty in development countries. They promote the CLTS approach with partners and local governments, demonstrating best practice and developing innovative technologies for clean water and waste management, and they work with national and city governments to ensure that ...

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Pavement dwellers' sanitation activities — visible but ignored

Cited by 8 publications

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Public accountability failure in solving a public nuisance: stakeholder disengagement in a clash of Western and Islamic worldviews

Public accountability failure in solving a public nuisance: stakeholder disengagement in a clash of Western and Islamic worldviews

Neglected second and third generation challenges of urban sanitation: A review of the marginality and exclusion dimensions of safely managed sanitation

Innovations for Urban Sanitation

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