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Programme FINISH and the adventure of building a million sanitations systems (a toilet + safe disposal/recycling + hygiene / hand washing) - An Indo-Dutch Collaboration
Organized by MIDS (India), WASTE (Netherlands) UNU-MERIT (Netherlands) and FIN (India)

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The Chennai workshop on November 1-2 brings together international organizations, firms, researchers, NGOs and citizens who are joining hands to win a challenge that they have set for themselves - to build a million toilets largely mobilizing funds from the end-users themselves instead of providing sanitation as a ‘charity commodity’ free of charge. All of them believe that complete sanitation coverage is necessary for sustainable development and improvement of the quality of life. They also want to explore strategies and financial tools by which funds can be mobilized from end-users towards investment in toilets.

Photographs taken at the MIDS FINISH Workshop held at chennai on 1st and 2nd November 2009
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FIN ARTICLES

  1. A.Benycar, A. Didier and S.V. Ramani, "Commercializing an Innovation in an Invisible Market: Case of Ecosan toilets" eSS Occasional Papers, Vol.1, No.1, May-July 2008, 77-90.
  2. S.V. Ramani, "Playing in Invisible Markets: The Market for toilets and empowerment", The Charles Cooper Annual Memorial Lecture, UNU-Merit working paper, #2008-012, (2008).
  3. Nicolas Mery, Matthieu Collardeau and Antoine Kassis, "Ecosan Toilets: Compilation of internet documents" June 2007

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

  1. The Hindu, Saturday, Nov 22, 2008, Incentive for constructing toilets goes up
  2. The Hindu, Saturday, Nov 22, 2008, Directive on manual scavenging
  3. The Hindu, Thursday, Nov 20, 2008, Over 30,000 scavengers rehabilitated
  4. Deccan Herald, August 28, 2008, It certainly stinks! Maggie Black
  5. The Times of India , 17 Jun 2007, Meenakshi Kumar, TNN, Ray of hope for manual scavengers of Gujarat
  6. The Times of India , 6 Jul 2008, V Mayilvaganan, TNN, In this Tiruchi town, they get paid to visit a toilet
  7. The Times of India , 21 May 2008, 1127 hrs IST, IANS, Flood-prone Bihar to get 'eco-sanitation' toilets
  8. Deccan Heralad, Monday, November 17, 2008, Dirty business Govt is doing little to ensure safety of sanitary workers.

ARTICLES AVAILABLE ON INTERNET
Compilation of links to articles available in the internet on sanitation by Sriram Ganapathy, FIN Librarian