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Title
WaterAid - Communal Toilets in
Urban Poverty Pockets
Abstract
During November 2008 an exploratory study was carried out in seven poverty
pockets in Bhopal to look at patterns of use of communal latrine facilities. Poverty
pockets were selected so as to include three different models of communal latrine
management (municipal, Sulabh pay-to-use and community managed pay-to-use)
and to cover settlements of different size. Data were collected by enumerators from
a local NGO, the Advocacy of Alternative Resources, Action, Mobilization and
Brotherhood (AARAMBH), using structured interview schedules. Exit interviews were
carried out on a sample of 1692 latrine facility users of whom approximately 50%
were women. Data were also collected from respondents during 352 household
interviews in order to collect data from non-users of facilities. Approximately 50
households were selected from each of the poverty pockets using a ‘random walk’
procedure. Tallies of the total number of users between 05.00 and 21.00 were
recorded for one day at each facility. Locations of facilities and households were
recorded using a handheld GPS and these data were used to calculate a proxy
indicator of the straight line distance between houses and the nearest communal
latrine facility.
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