Navi Disha community toilet model

社区公共卫生创新模式

The Indian city of Pimpri Chinchwad being a prominent industrial hub, hosts a significant number of migratory industrial labourers who have established residence in low-income settlement areas. City has 160 Community Toilets that provide clean and hygienic sanitation facilities in these areas. Under the Navi Disha initiative, women from the targeted communities have formed groups that have taken responsibility for operating and maintaining the community toilets ensuring superior sanitation standards.

印度宾布里金杰沃德市是著名工业中心，拥有大量在低收入地区定居的工业移民。为了给这些地区提供干净的卫生设施，市内修建了 160 个社区厕所（Navi Disha项目）。在此项目框架下，来自目标社区的妇女组成工作小组，负责运营和维护社区厕所，确保其良好的卫生标准。

Round of discussions were conducted with the communities for conceiving the initiative. Women within these settlements came forwards to take up the operation and maintenance of the community toilet in their area.

这一项目诞生于与社区的讨论中。妇女们主动参与，承担起所在地区社区厕所的运营和维护工作。

Along with training in community toilet management, the municipality also makes a monthly payment to each women’s group to cover the cost of sanitation equipment and cleaning materials to generate revenue streams for the women’s groups.

除了管理方面的培训外，市政府还每月向妇女团体支付卫生设备和清洁材料的费用，为妇女团体创造收入来源。

The initiative is a good example of gender mainstreaming in the sanitation value chain along with effective public-community partnerships and agile administration. Over 400 women are now engaged within the initiative managing 40 toilets with total of 862 toilet seats. Over 30,000+ beneficiaries are getting access to clean and safe toilets every day. With overwhelming interest from other women groups, municipality has planned to scale over 120 community toilets under Navi Disha, with engagement of over 1,200 women and increasing the beneficiaries by at least three folds by June 2024.

此项目是将性别平等纳入主流卫生价值链的一个典范，也建立了有效的公共社区伙伴关系。目前，超过400 名女性参与，管理着40个厕所共862个厕位。每天有超3万名使用者可以使用卫生、安全的厕所。项目外其他的妇女团体也对此展现出极大兴趣。因此，市政府计划在项目框架下扩建120多个社区厕所，吸引1200多名妇女参与进来，到 2024年6月，项目受益人数增加至少三倍。

The municipality aspires to introduce the women groups to alternative revenue streams, involving them in decision making for future initiatives such as women-led sustainable Solid Waste Management and establishing robust feedback and monitoring mechanisms.

该市政府希望让妇女团体了解项目带来的其他收入来源，并让她们参与到未来的政策决策中，例如妇女主导的可持续固体废物管理，包括借助妇女力量建立强有力的反馈和监测机制。