Lack of space or tenure issues results in slum communities relying on community sanitation facilities to meet their sanitation needs. The number of households and people dependant on community toilets determines the number of community toilets blocks and toilet seats in each. Generally, a slum community is mapped to a particular toilet block and it would be useful to track the household usage and use entitlements to motivate households to use the community toilet.
A mobile application which tracks household use of community toilet facilities and promotes an incentive/reward for households using the facility would not only provide valuable information on the use of the community facilities but also the effectiveness of incentives to induce behavior
change.
Owner: Ravi Joseph World Bank <rjoseph1@worldbank.org>
Smart phones using GPS could map the households (with a profile of the household; age/gender) dependent/using a community toilet. A database of households (number, age and gender) would have to be created. Each household and members of that household would also be tagged and
assigned a unique identification number. Every time a member of that household uses the toilet, the caretaker would send a message to the central database. Tracking this information would help determine the number members using or not using the toilet. Monitoring this information
over a period of time would help to track those households that are all using the facility and those households that partially or never use the facility. This information could be used to target those households with awareness/behavior change messages and follow-up. Also those households wherein all members are using the facility could be provided with an entitlement /incentive (food coupons, hygiene promotion materials, and so on).
City maps with slum households
Age /gender profile of households
Pictures of restrooms
Navigation data
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