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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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