This case study covers the use of the PAISA (Planning, Allocations and Expenditures, Institutions Studies in Accountability) approach on the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), India’s national sanitation programme. The Accountability Initiative at the Centre for Policy Research has been using the PAISA approach since 2015 to track fund flows in the SBM.
Tag: Sanitation
To Know How Many People Have Access To Toilets, Surveyors Must Ask The Right Questions
Sanitation data vary due to the type of questions asked in surveys. Accurate data on sanitation behaviour and toilet use can be captured if surveys ask questions on sanitation practices of all individuals in a household instead of one member, say experts.
20 Million Rural Houses Got Tap Water in 2019; Total at 51 Million
India has 189 million rural households, according to the official data. Till August 16, cumulatively over a four-year period, 51 million households, or 27% of the total, were provided with tap water connection under the joint Centre-state Jal Jeevan mission, data analysed by HT shows.
Decentralisation key to success of sanitation scheme, says Namami Gange chief Rajiv Mishra
Delegating powers to states, integrating project maintenance into its design, and collecting good data were some of the key points highlighted about India’s water and sanitation projects.
Modi declares India open defecation free, claim questioned
PM Narendra Modi declares India ODF on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary but experts remain sceptical.
Declaring India ‘Open Defecation Free’ Doesn’t Mean Sanitation Goals Have Been Met
Overcoming resistance to toilet usage requires addressing values, norms and beliefs that will lead to behaviour change, and ultimately the health and economic benefits.
Swachh Bharat? Condition of public toilets continues to be dismal
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented with great gusto, the condition of public toilets in our country continues to be dismal. We gather opinion from people on the street across the national capital on why it is so, and what can be done to improve things.
People will learn from examples, says RICE’s Nikhil Srivastav
After 4 years of Swachh Bharat, open defecation down 26 percentage points, but toilet use does not match construction spree
After 4 years of Swachh Bharat, open defecation down 26 percentage points, but toilet use does not match construction spree
Swachh Bharat spent Rs 530 crore on publicity in three years – but little on grassroots awareness
In villages where the number of households as per the baseline survey is less than the actual households, the toilet building exercise poses an allocation challenge: Who gets the limited number of toilets?
An RTI application has found the scheme’s publicity budget is directed at TV and print ads.
Congress exposes ‘sach’ of Centre’s Swachh Bharat campaign
Only one out of eight ODF verified villages in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh was ODF while a survey by the Centre for Policy Research found that only one out of 8 verified ODF gram panchayats in Udaipur was actually ODF.