If I do not have enough water, then how could I bring additional water for toilet cleaning?! Addressing water scarcity to promote hygienic use of shared toilets in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Saxton, Ronald; Yeasmin, Farzana; Alam, Mahbub-Ul; Al-Masud, Abdullah; Dutta, Notan Chandra; Yeasmin, Dalia; Luby, Stephen P.; Unicomb, Leanne; Winch, Peter J.

doi:10.1111/tmi.12914

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“…In the first two examples, tenants, landlords, and compound managers agreed that upgrading and maintenance of sanitation facilities, water supply, gas, and electricity in the compounds were all within the purview of the landlord and compound manager. However, most landlords lack incentives and a legal framework that holds them accountable to provide these basic needs [35]. Landlords and compound managers often fail to provide adequate sanitation facilities and maintenance in the absence of necessary incentives and government or institutional support [35].…”

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“…However, most landlords lack incentives and a legal framework that holds them accountable to provide these basic needs [35]. Landlords and compound managers often fail to provide adequate sanitation facilities and maintenance in the absence of necessary incentives and government or institutional support [35]. There is evidence that in the absence of government or institutional support, community health promoters have a role in Dhaka and in other settings, mobilizing community members to improve and maintain facilities and promote related behaviours [7,36].…”

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“…Other themes that emerged from the interviews were that the temporary nature of the slums played a role in the behaviour of the landlord and compound manager and that better sanitation services were of little priority to the tenants, landlords, and compound managers as they had to focus on more immediate needs such as accessibility of clean water and affordable shelter [35].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Landlords’ and Compound Managers’ Role in Improving and Sustaining Shared Latrines in Three Dhaka City Slums

Yeasmin

Rahman

Luby

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Water

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(1) Background: Residents of Dhaka slums frequently lack clean and functional shared latrines. We explored the role of landlords and compound managers in promoting latrine cleanliness in the intervention arm of a randomized trial; (2) Methods: We conducted focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and in-depth interviews with community health promoters, landlords, and compound managers to better understand the decision-making process, barriers to contributing to sanitation, and cleanliness of shared latrines. (3) Results: Landlords’ and compound managers’ engagement in promoting clean and functional latrines depended, in part, on their own proximity to the properties they own and manage. The compound managers played a leadership role through engagement with health promoters, oversight of implementation of a cleaning schedule, and support for installation and maintenance of sanitation hardware, resulting in improved sanitation practices; (4) Conclusions: Interventions in slums in Bangladesh should consider engaging landlords and compound managers in efforts to bring about structural and organizational changes to support the adoption of improved water, sanitation, and hygiene practices.

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Landlords’ and Compound Managers’ Role in Improving and Sustaining Shared Latrines in Three Dhaka City Slums

Yeasmin

Rahman

Luby

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“…Many LICs are also located near polluted water bodies, swamps, or putrid drainage canals [ 19 ]. The urban poor population in this country is being neglected in many ways in terms of social, economic, and infrastructural improvement [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. Limited access to water and sanitation services in slums could contribute to the poor health of slum residents [ 24 ].…”

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Strategies to Connect Low-Income Communities with the Proposed Sewerage Network of the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project, Bangladesh: A Qualitative Assessment of the Perspectives of Stakeholders

Alam

Sharior

Ahsan

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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In Bangladesh, approximately 31% of urban residents are living without safely managed sanitation, the majority of whom are slum residents. To improve the situation, Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is implementing the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project (DSIP), mostly funded by the World Bank. This study assessed the challenges and opportunities of bringing low-income communities (LICs) under a sewerage connection within the proposed sewerage network plan by 2025. We conducted nine key-informant interviews from DWASA and City Corporation, and 23 focus-group discussions with landlords, tenants, and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) from 16 LICs near the proposed catchment area. To achieve connections, LICs would require improved toilet infrastructures and have to be connected to main roads. Construction of large communal septic tanks is also required where individual toilet connections are difficult. To encourage connection in LICs, income-based or area-based subsidies were recommended. For financing maintenance, respondents suggested monthly fee collection for management of the infrastructure by dividing bills equally among sharing households, or by users per household. Participants also suggested the government’s cooperation with development-partners/NGOs to ensure sewerage connection construction, operation, and maintenance and prerequisite policy changes such as assuring land tenure.

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“…This has an impact on the emergence of environmental based diseases that until now the occurrence is still developing is diarrhea. Gastrointestinal infections including diarrhea are considered still the most important health problem in urban slums [4]. Nationally in Indonesia, Case Fatality Rate (CFR) on Extraordinary Conditions (KLB) diarrhea has increased.…”

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The source of potential pollution and diarrhea on toodlers at populous area (a study at Johar Baru Subdistrict, Central Jakarta)

Fitri¹,

Kusnoputranto²,

Soesilo³

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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Indonesia still faces some challenges in the field of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) especially in Jakarta. Environmental disease such as diarrhea becomes the cause of death on toddlers in Indonesia. The region with the most cases of diarrhea is Johar Baru Subdistrict with proportion 17% of all Subdistricts in Central Jakarta area and becomes the region with the most populous place in Jakarta. This analysis aims to determine the source of potential pollution of diarrhea in Johar Baru Subdistrict. The research method used was cross sectional study design. The research results show that mothers’ education, the habit of washing the hand by using soap, family income, type of clean water sources, facility of waste disposal, and risk of clean water source pollution influence the occurance of diarrhea on toddlers. The dominant factor of diarrhea case on toddlers is the risk of clean water source pollution and the habit of washing the hand by using soap. The effort of diarrhea prevention is such as conducting city water security at slums of the city with high populous and makes washing the hand with soap as the habit in the society completed with the facility of hand washing.

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If I do not have enough water, then how could I bring additional water for toilet cleaning?! Addressing water scarcity to promote hygienic use of shared toilets in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract: Our pilot demonstrates the potential efficacy of low-cost water storage and behaviour change communications to improve maintenance of and user satisfaction with shared toilets in urban slum settings.

Cited by 17 publications

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Landlords’ and Compound Managers’ Role in Improving and Sustaining Shared Latrines in Three Dhaka City Slums

Landlords’ and Compound Managers’ Role in Improving and Sustaining Shared Latrines in Three Dhaka City Slums

Strategies to Connect Low-Income Communities with the Proposed Sewerage Network of the Dhaka Sanitation Improvement Project, Bangladesh: A Qualitative Assessment of the Perspectives of Stakeholders

The source of potential pollution and diarrhea on toodlers at populous area (a study at Johar Baru Subdistrict, Central Jakarta)

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