scholarly journals Monitoring Sanitation Campaigns: Targets, Reporting and Realism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Adhikari ◽  
Bharat Adhikari ◽  
Sue Cavill ◽  
Santosh Mehrotra ◽  
Vijeta Rao Bejjanki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Process Monitoring ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Reporting And Verification ◽  
Improve Access

Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have recently concluded national sanitation campaigns; a number of countries have campaigns underway; while others are in the conceptualising and planning process. Monitoring and reporting results is one of the key challenges associated with these campaigns. This Frontiers of Sanitation presents lessons learnt to date to inform ongoing and future government campaigns intended to end open defecation and improve access to safely managed sanitation. Firstly, we discuss campaigns, targets, monitoring, reporting, and verification arrangements, showing how these processes can be used to increase the credibility of national declarations and strengthen campaigns to respond to challenges. Secondly, we present case studies from India and Nepal, providing campaign-specific details from two recently declared ODF countries.

scholarly journals Monitoring Sanitation Campaigns: Targets, Reporting and Realism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Adhikari ◽  
Bharat Adhikari ◽  
Sue Cavill ◽  
Santosh Mehrotra ◽  
Vijeta Rao Bejjanki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Process Monitoring ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Reporting And Verification ◽  
Improve Access

Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have recently concluded national sanitation campaigns; a number of countries have campaigns underway; while others are in the conceptualising and planning process. Monitoring and reporting results is one of the key challenges associated with these campaigns. This Frontiers of Sanitation presents lessons learnt to date to inform ongoing and future government campaigns intended to end open defecation and improve access to safely managed sanitation. Firstly, we discuss campaigns, targets, monitoring, reporting, and verification arrangements, showing how these processes can be used to increase the credibility of national declarations and strengthen campaigns to respond to challenges. Secondly, we present case studies from India and Nepal, providing campaign-specific details from two recently declared ODF countries.

scholarly journals Nepal Sanitation Movement Lessons Learnt on Targets and Monitoring

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Adhikari ◽  
Bharat Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Process Monitoring ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Improve Access

Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have recently concluded national sanitation campaigns; a number of countries have campaigns underway; while others are in the conceptualising and planning process. Monitoring and reporting results is one of the key challenges associated with these campaigns. This case study accompanies the publication: ‘Monitoring sanitation campaigns: Targets, reporting and realism’ which presents lessons learnt to date to inform ongoing and future government campaigns intended to end open defecation and improve access to safely managed sanitation.

scholarly journals Monitoring India’s National Sanitation Campaign (2014–2020)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santosh Mehrotra
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Tap Water ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Open Defecation ◽  
Target Setting ◽  
Lessons Learnt

In 2011, India had more phone users (around 54 per cent of households) and television access (33 per cent) in rural areas than people with access to tap water (31 per cent) and toilet facilities (31 per cent), according to Census 2011. This clearly indicates the failure of government programmes to change the centuries-old practice of defecation in the open. This neglect of safe sanitation has had catastrophic outcomes in terms of human well-being. This case study is an analysis of the latest central government Swachch Bharat Mission - Gramin (Clean India Mission - Rural) (or SBM-G), which has achieved much greater success than any hitherto government effort in providing access to and use of toilets, especially in rural areas where the need is greatest. However, any conception of achieving ODF status, or free of open defecation, in a village (or any limited geography) is more than merely building toilets. The Sanitation Learning Hub commissioned case studies of sanitation campaigns in both India and Nepal, drawing out the lessons learnt for other countries wishing to implement similar initiatives. Both case studies focus on how target setting and feedback and reporting mechanisms can be used to increase the quality of campaigns.

International advocacy: Case studies and lessons learnt

2019 ◽  
pp. 193-204
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Grisold ◽  
Anna Klicpera ◽  
Thomas Grisold
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Voice

This chapter takes an international perspective on advocacy. It focuses on the question of how international advocacy projects can look like and what makes them successful. In doing so, we turn to the practical and applied sides of advocacy. Advocacy activities aim at taking the voice of patients to inform, protect, and support them. In the first part of this chapter, we will present successful cases of advocacy activities in neurology. In the second part, we will reflect on personal experiences where advocacy activities were or should have been implemented. Reflecting on these cases, we present some lessons learnt that advocates may want to consider when they plan and implement international advocacy activities.

Why lessons learnt are lost

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haris ◽  
Abdur Rehman Cheema ◽  
Chamila Subasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Know How ◽  
Cultural Preferences ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Housing Reconstruction ◽  
And Training ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reduce the gap in understanding the complexity of barriers, their modifiers and how these barriers and their modifiers result in malpractices and missed good practices in post-earthquake reconstruction contexts. This paper provides insights to the often asked question: why the lessons learnt from one earthquake event are not actually learnt and many of the mistakes around housing reconstruction are repeated? Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the review of the literature of the top deadliest earthquakes in the developing countries and the two case studies of the 2005 Kashmir and 2015 earthquake in Pakistan. Findings Multifarious barriers, their modifiers, malpractices and missed good practices are deeply interwoven, and endemic and include weak financial standing, lack of technical know-how, vulnerable location, social and cultural preference, affordability and availability of materials, over-emphasis on technical restrictions, inefficient policies, lack of clarity in institutional roles, monitoring and training. Research limitations/implications The study is desk based. Practical implications A better understanding of barriers can help disaster-related organisations to improve the planning and implementation of post-earthquake housing reconstruction. Social implications The study contributes to the understanding concerning various social and cultural preferences that negotiate the Build Back Better (BBB) process. Originality/value The study offers a distinctive perspective synthesising the literature and the two case studies to sharpen the understanding of the complexity of barriers to BBB.

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