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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India

Meeting Unmet Needs

By: Shubhagato Dasgupta,Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay,Anju Dwivedi,Sumona Das Gupta,Ms Bharti

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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India

Meeting Unmet Needs

By: Shubhagato Dasgupta,Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay,Anju Dwivedi,Sumona Das Gupta,Ms Bharti

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health. The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation, especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour, increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions, organising informal sanitation workers, serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies, public policy, governance, political science, development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation, urban planning and public policy.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000886379

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Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

Experiences from India

By: Sumona DasGupta

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Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

Experiences from India

By: Sumona DasGupta

This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering in their outreach and magnitude, the campaigns, popularly known as PEVACs (Pre-election Voters’ Awareness Campaigns), reached out to huge swathes of the population, particularly in rural India, through a unique network that incorporated civil-society organisations across the country, the media and the State Election Commission itself. The book journeys through the heat and dust of these extraordinary campaigns, drawing from a repertoire of field reports and interviews to reflect on the significance of this ‘experiment’ on deepening democracy in India. In particular, it analyses the methodology of the campaigns and posits that this itself became an extraordinary exercise in democratic practice, indicating the shape that deliberation and dialogic practices could actually take on the field. As the campaigns moved from district to district, through their street plays, posters, pamphlets, jagrut yatras, candidate–voter dialogues, rehearsals of voting procedures, setting up of information booths, and participatory workshops for newly elected representatives, a new dialogical experiment was born and shaped. By examining these campaigns, this book emphasises the idea that governance is not just the business of central (federal) governments but also of citizens outside the formal institutions of governance, without whose active participation democracy cannot be deepened.

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Routledge

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1136196730

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9781136196737

Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

Experiences from India

By: Sumona DasGupta

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Experiences from India

By: Sumona DasGupta

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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India

Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India

Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement

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