Activity progress report- RSSH4A

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World Toilet Day

Sustainable Sanitation & Hygiene for ALL

(SSH4A)

Prepared by:

Raju Shrestha

WASH Advisor SNV Nepal

Salyan, Rukum, Rolpa

November 2016

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1. Introduction

World Toilet Day is a day to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis – a topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos. Today, 2.4 billion people are struggling to stay well, keep their children alive and work their way to a better future – all for the want of a toilet.

The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone everywhere has access to toilets by 2030. This makes sanitation a global development priority. Government of Nepal has also set the target for universal access to sanitation by 2017.

The theme of World Toilet Day 2016 is ‘toilets and jobs’, focusing on how

sanitation, or the lack of it, can impact people’s livelihoods. Toilets play a crucial

role in creating a strong economy, as well as improving health and protecting

people’s safety and dignity, particularly women’s and girls’.

2. Top facts:

� 2.4 billion People live without improved sanitation (World Health

Organization (WHO)/UNICEF 2015).

� One in ten people has no choice but to defecate in the open (WHO/UNICEF

2015).

� Diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children

every year (WASH watch 2016).

� Disease transmission at work mostly caused by poor sanitation and hygiene

practices, causes 17% of all workplace deaths (International Labour

Organization (ILO) 2003).

� Loss of productivity due to illnesses caused by lack of sanitation and poor

hygiene practices is estimated to cost many countries up to 5% of GDP

(Hutton 2012)

� Diarrhoea caused by unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene is linked to 50% of child undernutrition, which can lead to stunted physical and mental development (WHO 2008).

� Globally, approximately $260 billion is lost each year to the effects of poor sanitation and unsafe water on many aspects of the economy, but most significantly on healthcare (Hutton 2012).

� In the EU, there are more than 2.5 million jobs in the wastewater and solid waste management sectors (Ernst and Young 2006).

� Every $1 spent on water and sanitation generates a $4.3 return in the form of reduced health care costs.

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3. Objectives of WTD:

� Raised awareness and inspired to community people for behabiour change

� Disseminated importance of hygienic use of toilet

� Coordination ,collaboration and joint action plan to tackle sanitation crisis

4. Nepal context

The sanitation coverage of Nepal is 88.5 per cent meaning almost nine in ten

households have toilet. By development region, mid and far western region have

coverage of 99 percent each while central region has lowest coverage (79%)

followed by eastern region with coverage of 87 percent and western region (97%).

In the last Nepali FY, 324,000 toilets were built in Nepal- which is 890 toilet per

day. If we consider 5 skilled and 10 unskilled persons are required to build a toilet,

48,69,000 persondays equivalent job was created by construction of toilet alone

in Nepal. If we convert person days into cash it will come 2.9 Arab (skilled labour

wage= 800 and unskilled labor wage 500). This amount of work carried out in the

construction of toilet is estimated at five folds higher than what the development

agencies provided in mobilization for toilet construction.

As of today, about 622,150 toilets have to be built (estimated) in Nepal. There is

407 days left to end 2017 which is the national target of ODF. If we have to

complete the ODF mission by 2017, Nepal has to make 1,528 toilet in a day.

Though this figure is higher than the 2015/16 year target, there is high possibility

of having achieving ODF status as there are only few districts remaining to work

for ODF.

5. Major Activities

5.1 Salyan World Toilet Day was celebrated in Salyan with the main slogan “Toilet and Jobs”.

This event was organised in Shantinagar, ward – 1, Sharda Municiality. This event

was organised by DWASH-CC. All WASH actor were participated and celebrated

through rally, campaign and toilets inspection as well as interaction with

community people about the improtance of toilets. The program host by Shovit

Basnet , Field Supervisor of SSH4A , PASS Nepal and closing speech was delivered

by DE Mr Shiv P Devkota ,WSSDO Salyan.

DE Mr Devkota highlighted about the importance of toilets and Government of

Nepal is also trying to increase the access of improved sanitation through ending

open defecation and Salyan is recently declared ODF district and need to move

towards total sanitation by coordination ,cooperation of all stakeholders working

in district. He stressed a clean and safe toilet ensures health, dignity and well

beings.

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Key participants

� WSSDO Salyan

� DDC Salyan

� SNV Nepal

� PASS Nepal

� Red Cross

� FEDWASUN

� SUAAHARA

� PAHAL

� DDS Salyan

� Small Town Water Supply project , Salyan

� Naba Shakti Yuba club

Toilet Inspection and interaction with house

owner, 19 Nov 2016 at Shantinagar, Sharda

Municipality -1

WASH Actors participated in World Toilet

Day, 19 Nov 2016 at Shantinagar, Sharda

Municipality -1

Distributing the cleaning materials to house

owner to make hygienic use of toilets

Closing remarks by DE Shiv P Devkota Seems Happy after cleaning the pan by

using cleaning materials (Harpic and

brush)

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5.2 Rukum

World toilet day was celebrated at total sanitized green settlement namely

Chandannath Tole of Musikot municipality -1, Rukum. The program was organized

by DWASHCC Rukum and facilitated by RSDC under SSH4A program supported

by SNV Nepal. The program was chaired by Mr Narayan Prasad Chapagain from

DDC and chief guest DE Bikesh Shrestha from WSSDO Rukum as well as political

parties, journalist, and other WASH actors were also participated. DE Mr Bikesh

Shrestha highlighted about the importance of Toilet and its hygienic use and need

to maintenance of toilets to upgrade for use by all at all time. He also highlighted

about hygiene behaviour and practices to achieve total sanitized condition and

Rukum district has already set goal to achieve Total Sanitized district by 2020.

During the event, 4 households of Mathilo Baghbazaar Tole were awarded for

maintaining hygienic use of toilets and sanitation kits were given as rewards to

them. Members of Rapti Sahitya Parishad Rukum had also participated to make

this event more fruitful and different literature and poem were shared among the

community. The program was host by Narendra KC (DPC /SSH4A/RSDC) and

Shrijana Sharma (Secretary of Rapti Sahitya Parisad).

Rewards given to house owner having clean toilet, Baghbazaar, Rukum

World Toilet Day celebrated in Chandannath Tole, Musikot Municipality -1

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5.3 Rolpa

19 Nov 2016, World Toilet Day was celebrated at Libang, Rolpa district in

collaboration with D-WASH-CC, SNV Nepal /PASS-Nepal, REDCROSS, DDC and

PAHAL/DECOS. In the program, short presentation including importance of latrine,

disadvantage of open defecation and interlinkage of latrine and nutrition was

presented by DE Mr Bhola Prasad Thapa. The program was host by Mr Damodar

Subedi, WASH focal person of DDC. After then in concerning of main theme of

“Toilet and Job”, all WASH actors had participated in argument and shared their

views related with hygienic use of toilets and that creates job in national, regional

and district level. At the end of program, SNV/PASS-Nepal had distributed Harpic,

toilet brush and soap under SSH4A program and small jug, plastic bucket donated

by Red Cross Rolpa to three public toilets owner in Libang.

Reference materials

1. http://www.un.org/en/events/toiletday

2. Siddhi Shrestha/UNICEF and Kantipur daily newspapaer).

3. Event report of Rukum, Rolpa and Salyan

WTD was celebrated by WASH actor in Libang, Rolpa