Sanitation and Skill Development
There is a demand to skill up people in the sanitation sector. As a sector that is in the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, sanitation requires a range of skills from civil and water engineers, masons, planners and communication specialists and grass roots workers. Sulabh as a major sanitation implementing agency has trained thousands of workers in each district in India and overseas in skills related to sanitation and thus played a pivotal role in the skilling process of workers engaged in the sanitation sector in the last 50 years. Sulabh also puts thrust in procuring locally resourced materials and employs local masons and engineers. It trains them in the process of implementing its projects. The organisation has built more than 1.5 million household toilets and over 9500 public toilets. Sulabh is increasingly looking at strengthening skills across sanitation verticals like construction, plumbing, advocacy workers, menstrual hygiene workers