Research Brief Gender-Responsive Sanitation Solutions

• Ensure that toilet design and implementation efforts use a gender-responsive approach to better address the sociocultural and biological needs of women • Deepen our understanding of the role of gender norms and identities on sanitation technology adoption through further research • Evaluate the longer term benefits of gender-responsive sanitation solutions on health, safety, productivity, and gender equity • Evaluate the longer term benefits of gender equity on adoption of sanitation solutions More than 792 million people in India do not have access to improved sanitation.1 Although efforts to increase sanitation coverage in rural areas face the principal challenge of changing long-held open defecation behavior, the core challenge in urba