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Sanitation Workers


Sanitation workers have been the blind spot in India’s march towards sanitation
They are very poorly understood, often clubbed in a nebulous category, and thus continue to face health, economic, and social challenges



40-45 years
The average life expectancy of sanitation workers is

375 to 475 people
who work in manual scavenging died on the job over the past five years

2/3
of sanitation workers we surveyed had not received instructions or training for Covid safety

Dalberg Advisors has engaged extensively on the topic of Sanitation Workers in recent years

Landscaping and solutioning study

Sanitation Workers Summit and Pilots

Sanitation Workers Innovation Hub

Sanitation Workers Innovation Hub
The overarching goal of the Hub is to make the lives of sanitation workers healthier, more prosperous, and more dignified. By driving innovation with potential for outsized impact on sanitation workers, and crowd- in interest, efforts, and resources from government, the development sector, and private sector.
To realize its goals, the Hub will deliver three types of activities

Design, manage, and scale-up innovation programs

Publish research and knowledge products

Organize convenings


Sanitation Workers Summit
Dalberg had hosted a Sanitation Workers Innovation Summit with the purpose of prioritising problems faced by workers and developing concept pilots to address them. Four high potential concepts had emerged from this summit that promise to tackle issues faced by workers across their work-life cycle – from the time they first engage on the job, to regular issues that they face on the job, as well as for those looking to disengage from sanitation work.


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