In India…
…rapid progress in ending open defecation has been achieved. However, extreme climate events and poverty remain significant challenges in reaching the SGD6 of sanitation for all. Over 100,000 children still die each year of preventable diarrhoeal diseases in the country. FINISH Mondial India started in 2009 and successfully built a local ecosystem to deliver sanitation services on a large scale. The track record under the Indian FINISH Society programme has laid the foundation for the current FINISH Mondial 6-country programme.
What we’ve achieved
since 2009
1.8 million
sanitation systems constructed through FINISH facilitation
9 million
people leading healthier lives
435 million
euros mobilised for investment in safe sanitation
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From Precarity to Official Waste Collector and Pig Farm Owner
This is the story of Sattu, a resident of a small gram panchayat, Noorpur Lubana of Kapurthala district, Punjab, who
Santwana Sneha: “We need to understand what drives investment in safely managed WASH to design better programmes”
What are the barriers in accessing safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene services in challenging circumstances? This question was at
“Poo to prosperity” – The success story of faecal sludge management in Nigiris
Mr Rajkumar Sampath, Advisor FINISH Mondial, talks with veteran journalist, Chander Mahadev, about his experience in a project under the