Community and stakeholders perspective on wash strategy in slum areas of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

WASH in the urban areas has been a recurring concern in the current Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM), the flagship program of Government of India regarding WASH issues being implemented under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MODWS). The current study was done in 2017 with the objective of a situational analysis and study of WASH in the slum areas of Lucknow. The study areas constituted of urban slums of Lucknow. The study was supported by Ankur Yuva Chetna Shivir (AYCS), a NGO working on WASH issues with slum areas of Lucknow. The current study is a qualitative study. It cited out what is to be done in future regarding WASH by the civic authorities like Lucknow Muincipal Corporation and NGOs based upon the discussions held at two levels viz, the community and stake holders like the staffs of civic authority like Lucknow Nagar Nigam (LNN) and Front Line workers of public Health system like ASHA, ANM and AWW. The community level included FGDs of men and women, stake holders included staffs of Lucknow Muincipal Corporation and Public Health System of UP.