Ensuring Safety, Security, and Dignified Lives for Sanitation Workers

Publisher(s): ITN-BUET

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Category(s): Reports

Language: English

Publication Year: 2025

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Sanitation workers form the backbone of urban sanitation systems but remain among the most vulnerable groups in service delivery. Inadequate safety measures, low wages, social stigma, and precarious working conditions undermine their dignity and the sustainability of sanitation services.

Adopting a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approach, which emphasizes equity, inclusiveness, and safety across all urban sanitation services, is critical to ensure that sanitation workers are protected, empowered, and integrated into municipal systems. Session 2 of the SaniTalk Café focused on how CWIS principles can guide policies and interventions for worker safety, security, and dignity.

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