Open Defecation Free
Maharashtra was the first state to develop a framework for ODF and ODF+ for urban areas. With the launch of the Swachh Maharashtra Mission under SBM, the Government of Maharashtra took the pledge of ‘Creating and Sustaining ODF Communities’ and ‘Moving towards ODF+ and ODF++ Cities’. Urban Maharashtra was declared Open Defecation Free on 1st October 2017. CWAS supported these by developing planning/implementation guidelines, monitoring framework, IEC materials, handbooks and good practice documents.
Monitoring Sanitation in Cities under Swachh Maharashtra Mission for Urban Areas (SMMUA) for Maharashtra
This compilation is an effort to bring together activities that the cities in Maharashtra have undertaken for monitoring sanitation in...
Monitoring Swachh Maharashtra Mission - Experience from Urban Maharashtra
This slide deck summarizes the interventions and tools that were designed and implemented to successfully monitor the Swachh Maharashtra Mission....
Sustaining ODF Status of Cities - Experiences from Urban Maharashtra
This slide deck describes the approach and strategic interventions taken by the State government of Maharashtra to sustain the ODF...
Divisional Workshops for ULBs in Maharashtra: Making 100 cities ODF
A presentation was made to all cities in Maharashtra during division level workshops organized by the Urban Development Department, GoM,...
ODF Framework of Government of Maharashtra
The Swachh Maharashtra Mission has defined a process of 'granting' ODF status to cities. However, the Government of Maharashtra envisages...
Round 2 Divisional Workshops for all ULBs in Maharashtra
A presentation was made to all ULBs in Maharashtra for moving towards ODF+ and ODF++ Cities. It focused on five...
Journey of ODF Maharashtra
On October 1st 2017, all 384 urban local bodies of Maharashtra were declared ODF. To commemorate the occasion, a booklet...
Handbook on Making Cities ODF - Systematic Approach in Maharashtra
In Maharashtra, nearly one in three urban households do not have a toilet on-premise. This was due to constraints related...
19 Cities Declared Open Defecation Free - Documentation
The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, on 2nd December 2015, declared 19 cities in Maharashtra Open Defecation Free in a felicitation...
The Pioneers: Making Maharashtra ODF
This document summarizes the initiatives taken by ODF cities to achieve and sustain ODF status. It also highlights the extra...
The Changemakers - Making Maharashtra ODF and Clean
Maharashtra had 52 open defecation free cities under its second milestone of the Swachh Maharashtra Mission in February 2016. This...
Sustaining Cities to be ODF
In a short span of time since the launch, the Swachh Maharashtra Mission has resulted in 52 ODF cities. The...
Reaching the Unserved-Access to individual household toilets in vulnerable urban areas
The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) focused on Individual Household Toilets. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that the urban poor, who...
Individual Household Toilets Are Essential In Reducing Exposure To Covid And Gender Based Violence
An article on individual household toilets, authored by CWAS team members Dhruv Bhavsar and Arwa Bharmal, was published by NDTV....
