Project Sammaan’s mission is to increase toilet usage and reduce open defecation and related illnesses in urban contexts.
Project Sammaan is a collaboration with the Bhubaneswar and Cuttack Municipal corporations to build user friendly community toilets in urban slums, mobilize communities to manage and to use these facilities, and to study behavior change processes to understand how to encourage sustained use of community toilet facilities. The key to attaining its objectives was the creation of an urban community sanitation model that could work as a broadly adaptable template.
A model that has:
financial
sustainability
sustainability
a government/
public partnership mechanism
public partnership mechanism
user-centric
design
design
community
management
management
scalability
and contextual
adaptability
and contextual
adaptability
About the Toolkit
The Sammaan toolkit contains learnings from all areas of the project along with practical resources developed by the project team. In each section, we have tried to highlight key insights and provide simple guidelines for implementation.
- Design and construction – Design and construction of user-friendly facilities.
- Operations and maintenance – Implementation of a formal system of community management.
- Behavioral interventions – Testing of behavior change interventions and collection of usage data to assess impact.
- Community engagement – Framework for engagement with users and community members
- Stakeholder collaboration – Ecosystem for collaboration to implement community toilet projects end to end
CONSTRUCTION
MAINTENANCE
INTERVENTIONS
ENGAGEMENT
COLLABORATION
See our Toolkit Guide
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TESTIMONIALS
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OUR REACH
39
facilities
operational
39
facilities
operational
355
number
of seats
355
number
of seats
965700
number of
flushes/uses
965700
number of
flushes/uses
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PARTNERS
