Events

The vast challenges and opportunities of the sanitation sector in India necessitate multi-stakeholder engagement. The ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards, a first of its kind, aims at identifying and recognising the efforts of these stakeholders, across the whole sanitation value chain of Build-Use-Maintain-Treat. It is India Sanitation Coalition’s aim to reinforce sanitation as a national priority, and these Awards are an important step in this direction. We look forward to more and more organizations engaging in sanitation, either because they see business value, or because they see real impact because of their efforts. This includes implementation partners, corporates, financial institutions and entrepreneurs, ...

On October 02, 2014, Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi officially launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) to realise the goal of a Swachh Bharat (Clean India) by October 02, 2019. It gave a new thrust to the sanitation programme, by removing bottlenecks and focusing on critical issues affecting positive outcomes. Apart from requirement of huge human resources to develop positive behaviour, mobilising fund was also a big challenge. Government sought active participation from all, and more prominently the corporate sector. Companies have responded to this through their mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as well as through their innovations, partnerships ...

To support the political drive towards sustainable sanitation in India, the international network Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and India Sanitation Coalition has set up a regional chapter for India. The India Chapter serves as a platform for exchange and discussion and links the Indian discourse about sanitation with the global community. As of today, most of the SuSanA members come from India and provide important contributions to the international network. Based on the inputs received from SuSanA members and secondary research on Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Rural and Urban, ISC and SuSanA published “Swachh Bharat: Vision to Mission” during the ...