2017: ITP Highlight #03
What does literacy have to do with sanitation and child stunting? ITP weltwärts volunteer Laura Wilhelm argues that female education should be an integral part of India's Swachh Bharat strategy...
Sanitation, Female Literacy and Child Stunting
Lessons for Swachh Bharat Mission
Laura Patrizia Wilhelm
Some recent studies in India and elsewhere have suggested a positive correlation between open defecation and child stunting. Improving children's health is one of the primary
motivations behind India's Swachh Bharat Mission under which the government is trying to eliminate open defecation by investing heavily in the construction of toilets. Through analysis of secondary data, this Highlight shows that female literacy has a more significant correlation with child stunting and calls for appropriate policy focus on educating women, especially on health, nutrition and hygiene.
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