Integrating Women’s SHGs in Urban Sanitation Service Delivery
Integrating Women’s SHGs in Urban Sanitation Service Delivery outlines the convergence roadmap between SBM and DAY NULM to integrate women led Self Help Groups into urban sanitation services. The guide focuses on formalizing informal sanitation work, enabling skilled and dignified livelihoods for women, and strengthening the sustainable operation and maintenance of municipal sanitation infrastructure.
- The convergence framework seeks to formalize frontline sanitation workers, primarily women from marginalized communities, by organizing them into women led Self Help Groups.
- As women comprise nearly 88 percent of SHG members nationally, the guide emphasizes training in technical skills such as operations and maintenance and mechanized sanitation, along with enterprise management covering finance, contracts, and service delivery.
- The programme prioritizes task specific and gender appropriate personal protective equipment, including redesigned uniforms, and access to essential facilities such as washrooms and rest spaces like Garima Grihas.
- Implementation evidence highlights enhanced agency, improved working conditions, higher incomes in some cases tripling, and improved cleanliness through ownership and accountability.
