Refining the shit flow diagram using the capacity-building approach – Method and demonstration in a south Indian town Paresh Chhajed-Picha; N.C. Narayanan (2021)
In cities of the Global South, faecal sludge management (FSM) has arisen as an acceptable and economical alternative for managing excreta. Shit flow diagram (SFD) has emerged as the preferred tool for the planning andadvocacy of FSM services. Besides context-specific challenges, FSM planning, especially the use of SFD is impeded by the lack of data related to on-site sanitation systems (OSSs) and lack of capacity at the local level.
This paper sets out to demonstrate how the capacity-building approach can be extended to overcome these two challenges in planning FSM with a substantial share of the information collected through household surveys.
We argue that even the resource-constrained towns in the Global South have access to college students, smartphones and open source applications and demonstrate how they can be harnessed to collect the data in a cost-effective manner.
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Paresh Chhajed-Picha; N.C. Narayanan (2021). Refining the shit flow diagram using the capacity-building approach – Method and demonstration in a south Indian town Elsevier - Journal of Environmental Management
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