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Rural
Sanitation Programme (RSP):
Sanitation remains one of the biggest development challenges and is
appropriately one of the millennium development goals. In keeping
with the principles of sector reforms and the philosophy of
community participation and demand-responsive strategies, it is
critical to mobilize communities to seek solutions and to plan and
implement sanitation schemes by creating awareness and motivating
behaviour change.
The
main objective and implementation plan, of the RSP and Council for
Advancement of People’s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), is to
construct simple, cost effective, practical sanitation models for
rural community; and to increase understanding of safe drinking
water, personal hygiene and sanitation.
Communities are motivated to change behaviour patterns, such that
they seek to introduce sanitation facilities that ultimately lead to
improved health and self-esteem. It is not simply the lack of
facilities that keeps people away from proper sanitation practices.
Lack of awareness of proper hygiene behaviour and socio-cultural
factors are also responsible for unsatisfactory sanitation
practices.
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