Past Events
Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018 - Tuesday, 14 Aug 2018
04:00 PM TO 05:30 PM
CORP seminar on 'Sanitation Systems: Access, Equity and Sustainability in Wastewater Systems in Tier-II Cities in India'
How do we track access to sanitation globally? Zach will discuss the human right to water in the context of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Thinking critically about the definitions used for the terms ‘safe’, ‘accessible’, ‘affordable’ and ‘equitable,’ he will review the progress in the last two decades when it comes to sanitation, for different regions of the world and for India in particular.
Zach will then
Friday, 06 Apr 2018 - Friday, 06 Apr 2018
03:30 PM TO 05:30 PM
CORP Seminar on 'Understanding Informal Models of Septic Tank Emptying Services: Case Studies From Four Cities in India'
The 2011 Census pointed out that 47% of urban households continue to rely on forms of non-networked sanitation like private septic tanks and pit latrines. Moreover, anecdotal evidence indicates that many of the 42 lakh toilets constructed under the Swacch Bharat Mission (Urban) have been connected to on-site sanitation systems. Yet, this high prevalence of private infrastructure has not spurred cities to develop the
Tuesday, 12 Dec 2017 - Tuesday, 12 Dec 2017
09:30 AM TO 04:00 PM
Conference on 'Sustainable Sanitation: Evidence and Practice'
The Accountability Initiative (AI) and Scaling City Institutions for India: Sanitation (SCIFI) organised a National Conference on ‘Sustainable sanitation: Evidence and Practice’ on the 12th of December in New Delhi. This was a unique opportunity to understand challenges and best practices in India’s WASH sector. Prominent academics, policy researchers, and practitioners shared their insights as part of the event.
Monday, 30 Oct 2017 - Monday, 30 Oct 2017
03:00 PM TO 05:15 PM
ISAS-CPR Panel Discussion on 'The Clean India Mission: Challenges and Prospects'
While India is making commendable progress on several fronts, the lack of societal cleanliness, proper sanitation system and clean drinking water facilities, among others, has impeded the development process in the country. These basic rights are not only important to the health of individuals, but are also crucial for eradicating poverty, achieving sustainable development and the overall growth of the country.
Friday, 27 Oct 2017
03:00 PM
CORP Seminar on 'Last 100 metres: Safeguarding potable water provisioning to urban informal settlements'
The last two decades have seen much improvement to drinking water supplies to the urban poor across the developing world. However, potential benefits of improved water supply are severely compromised by faecal contamination at a critical zone around the point of use - regarded here as the ‘Last 100 Metres’ - where water is taken from the community standpipes to people’s homes. Global architectures for sustainable
Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017 - Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017
03:30 PM TO 05:00 PM
CORP Seminar on ‘The Cleaning Brigade: Connects and Disconnects’
Dr. Sanghmitra Acharya’s talk on ‘The Cleaning Brigade: Connects and Disconnects’ addressed factors characterising sanitation work and how the instricially discriminatory nature of this work impacts the lives of those engaged in it. Caste is a unique determinant of social discrimination in the Indian Sub-continent that has impacted the sanitation workers in specific ways. The process of caste based social
Friday, 19 May 2017
03:00 PM
CORP Seminar: 'An Economic Characterisation of Sanitation: Between the State’s Production and the Household’s Demand'
Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ fails to promote sanitation in India. The private or domestic decisions vis-à-vis sanitation, produce negative externalities at the individual and collective levels, consequently, explaining the need for state intervention. In post-colonial India, sanitation has been a public concern since the 1980’s, but the most significant breach is the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which was
Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017 - Saturday, 21 Dec 2019
11:00 AM TO 02:00 PM
Workshop on 'Sanitation for People: Assessing Socio-Cultural Realities of Sanitation Practice in Indian Cities'
The Scaling City Institutions for India: Sanitation (SCI-FI: Sanitation) initiative at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) organised a half-day workshop to discuss the findings from three studies conducted on gender and socio-cultural issues relating to urban sanitation: (1) ‘Infrastructure, gender and violence: Women and slum sanitation inequalities’ by Dr Susan Chaplin, (2) 'Ethnography of Sanitation in Small
Monday, 23 Jan 2017 - Monday, 23 Jan 2017
11:00 AM TO 01:00 PM
CORP Seminar on 'Malaysian Perspective on River Pollution, Sanitation and Sewerage Management'
Malaysia has developed an integrated approach to management and treatment of waste from sewered and non-sewered areas that is considered very successful. It is estimated that around 65% of the urban population of Malaysia is covered by network sewerage, while the rest rely on Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) services which are provided by the same agency that provides network sewerage services. As with any other
Monday, 19 Dec 2016
03:30 PM
CORP Seminar on "Cities and Flooding: The State of the Art"
Most major cities (ranging from Mumbai, Chennai, Sao Paolo, Hanoi, HCM City, Beijing, Shanghai, Jakarta etc.) of the world have been hit hard over the past few years with severe flooding events. What should policy makers do? The talk will explore options for forward-looking operational assistance to policy makers and technical specialists in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world on how