Abstract
This study identifi es 11 issues that have inhibited the spread of a comprehensive sanitation programme. It emphasises the complexity of issues and helps avoid the facile targeting of the poor as defi cient citizens, whose latrine practices are viewed as a "primitive" source of social disorder and disease. Recognition that many factors are involved and interrelated might also serve as a warning against patchwork policies that disregard local context in their haste to proclaim another district an "open defecation free zone".
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 72-78 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Economic and Political Weekly |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue number | 49 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Dec 2014 |