SOUTH ASIAN CONFERENCE ON SANITATION (SACOSAN)
21st – 23rd October 2003
Participant Speakers: Expression of Interest
There are currently a number of slots available for delegates to make short presentations (10 minutes) to discussion groups, on the following themes:
- Motivation & collective action
- Supply & demand
- Making sanitation work
- Institutional support
- Strategies to reach poorest of the poor
Organizations are asked to highlight specific approaches that have overcome obstacles to good sanitary practice. Examples might include, for example, awareness-raising through school sanitation programmes (motivation & collective action), the role of small private providers (supply & demand), the move away from subsidies (making sanitation work), sharing best practice with local government (institutional support) and community-centered incentives for the alleviation of open defecation (strategies to reach poorest of the poor).
Presentations should attempt to: (i) give a regional overview, as well as; (ii) citing specific local examples that have been successful in raising the profile of sanitation across a range of stakeholders. If preferable, participants can join together and present these two perspectives at the same time, by dividing up the responsibility for each perspective.
Given SACOSAN’s policy-focus, it would be good to see examples of how these initiatives were brought forward as priorities for Governments. This will invariably mean discussing advocacy work.
If you are interested in presenting a paper one of these themes, please express interest by emailing a draft of your paper (no longer than 15 pages) by no later than 10th October 2003, to:
Prof. M. Feroze Ahmed, Chairman, Technical Sub-Committee, (itn@agni.com)
Ryan Knox, Conference Coordinator (ryan.knox@verulamassociates.org)
M. Shariful Alam, Coordinator for SACOSAN Secretariat, (msalam@unicef.org)