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Communication for Sustainable Sanitation for Wai
October 2020
Center for Water and Sanitation (CWAS), CEPT University has supported the city of Wai in its efforts to improve sanitation. Wai was among the first 19 cities in Maharashtra to become an open defecation free (ODF) city. It was also the first city in India to successfully implement scheduled desludging and get its faecal sludge and septage treated at a state of the art treatment plant. It is selected as one of the eight cities globally for implementing the City Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) principles. In Wai's journey from ODF to a CWIS city, communication has played a major role. In this document, one can find both the approach as well as various communication materials developed by the CWAS team and used successfully in Wai. While the communication materials presented in this report are specific to Wai, they are replicable in other similar contexts as well, with minor adaptation.
