Past Events
Wednesday, 22 Apr 2015
11:15 AM
Emerging Global Frameworks for Analyzing Urban Sanitation Needs: Putting Evidence-based Sanitation Research into Practice in East Asia
With the end of the ‘Millennium Development Goal” (MDG) era in sight, policy makers and sanitation specialists are planning how to achieve universal access to sanitation and reaching ‘last mile’ communities by 2030. Many countries made good progress in achieving their MDG targets, but for all countries the Sustainable Development Goals will be more challenging. To achieve these new targets a ‘mind-shift’ is needed
Wednesday, 04 Mar 2015
03:30 PM
Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: Policy and Regulatory Challenges
Management of municipal solid waste is one of the most pressing challenges faced by Indian cities. If the current situation continues unabated, 10 years from now Indian cities and towns will contribute 50 per cent more waste to these sites than they do today. These challenges range from household practices to unprotected handling of the waste and how the waste is finally treated and disposed. In a wide ranging
Friday, 12 Dec 2014 - Friday, 12 Dec 2014
04:00 AM TO 11:30 AM
Swasth Swachh Bharat: Aligning Actions to Better Outcomes
Seminar hosted by the Scaling City Institutions for India - Sanitation initiative on:
Swasth Swachh Bharat: Aligning Actions to Better Outcomes
Friday, 12th of December
09:30 - 17:00
The Claridges, New Delhi
12 Aurangzeb Road
New Delhi – 110011
Monday, 24 Nov 2014
11:30 AM
National Urban Health Mission (NUHM): Translational Challenges
Urban health systems in India were never a policy and programme priority. However in an increasingly urban India, there has been a sense of urgency for some time now. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan proposed to introduce the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) as a “thrust area”, which in conjunction with the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) would form the Sarva Swasthya Abhiyan. The Healthy Cities and
Monday, 22 Sep 2014
03:30 PM
Realisation of the Right to Sanitation: Law and Policy Challenges
The fundamental right to sanitation has been the object of increasing attention over the past decade. This has been true within the country where the right had already been recognised in the 1990s through from the shadow of water with which it has been (and largely remains) associated. Yet, beyond the recognition of a fundamental right, there is little guidance as to the scope of the right. This has been taken
Friday, 20 Jun 2014
03:30 PM
India, Urban Sanitation and the Toilet Challenge: Are We Ready to Reinvent?
The global challenge of providing urban sanitation services to the under-served highlights the need to change the paradigm for sanitation planning and service provision. India's population demographic trends show both rapidly growing urban population and exploding geographic size of its urban areas causing the gap for under-served with unimproved sanitation to continue to grow. Past focus on centralized sewerage
Monday, 28 Oct 2013 - Tuesday, 29 Oct 2013
04:00 AM TO 12:00 PM
Towards Universal Urban Sanitation: Smaller Cities a Priority Area for Policy Focus
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) organized a National Workshop on Urban Sanitation on the 28th of October, 2013, at New Delhi supported by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD), Government of India.
The workshop focused on the issues of governance in urban sanitation in small and medium-sized cities.