The second webinar of the Chat4Change series focuses on Unsafe and Untreated: Improving Citywide Inclusive and Resilient Sanitation Service Provisioning. The interactive discussion will spotlight the challenges and opportunities of safe and equitable access to urban sanitation services provisioning in the context of rapidly growing Indian cities.
The panel consists of experts from the field sharing their global and local perspectives on the improvement of urban sanitation in informal settlements, engagement with communities especially women, children and elderly, and its interlink with public health, governance, resilience, economy and the environment.
Key Discussion
- Short-term and Long-term opportunities to improve citywide inclusive and resilient sanitation service provisioning
- Government policies and subsidies
- Optimal sanitation systems, on-site vs off-site
- Safe disposal and reuse of wastewater
Title: Unsafe and untreated: Improving Citywide Inclusive and Resilient Sanitation Service Provisioning.
Date: June 24th, 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 5.30pm-7.30pm IST
Speakers
- Diana Mitlin, Professor, Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and Senior Associate, Human Settlements, IIED
- Dr. Mahreen Matto, Professor, Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and Senior Associate, Human Settlements, IIED
- Pamela Satpathy (Keynote Speaker), Commissioner, Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation, MD and CEO, Greater Warangal Smart City Corporation and Vice Chairperson of Kakatiya Urban Development Authority
- Shiny Saha, Program Officer, IRC India
- Sugantha Priscilla L, Senior Consultant – Practice, IIHS, TNUSSP
WRI India Accelerating Access Coalition’s Nudge Learning Lab (NLL), is organizing Chat4Change as part of its three-part webinar series. This session on Unsafe and Untreated: Improving citywide inclusive and resilient sanitation service provisioning is an interactive discussion on the challenges and opportunities of safe and equitable access to urban sanitation services provisioning in the context of rapidly growing Indian cities.The panel consists of experts from the field sharing their global and local perspectives on the improvement of urban sanitation in informal settlements, engagement with communities especially women, children and elderly, and its interlinks with public health, governance, resilience, economy and the environment.
Unsafe and untreated: Improving citywide inclusive and resilient sanitation service provisioning.
Date: April 20th, 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 5.30pm-7.30pm IST
Speakers
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- Jillian Du, Research Manager, Inclusive Cities, at the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
- Pamela Satpathy (Keynote Speaker), Commissioner, Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation
- Parnasha Banerjee, Team Lead, DASRA
- Shiny Saha, Program Officer, IRC India
- Sugantha Priscilla L, Senior Consultant – Practice,Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Program
- Shivali Jainer (Moderator), Manager, Urban Water, WRI India
- Sindhuja Janakiraman (Moderator), Project Associate, Urban Water, WRI India
