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Exploring Female-headed Households’ Sanitation Needs, Tasikmalaya

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posted on 2024-09-05, 21:11 authored by Elaine Mercer
Female-headed households often get left behind in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming and policy. This SLH Learning Paper presents findings and recommendations for action, from the participatory video research project, ‘Sanitation, health and livelihood issues for female-headed households in Tasikmalaya’. The project supported eight women in Awiluar village, Tasikmalaya, (a peri-urban community in west-Java, Indonesia), to explore the challenges they face and ideas for solution using a participatory video process. The process included activities to develop personal confidence, teamwork, collective and visual storytelling, reflective enquiry, communication skills and audio-visual technical skills. The women collectively created a video to communicate their sanitation, health and livelihood priorities, which was screened with local government officials and community members promoting vital dialogue and encouraging action. The aim of the project was to ensure that the specific needs and long-term interests of female-headed households are better met going forward. Further details on the approach can be found in the accompanying SLH Learning Paper, 'Using participatory video for empowerment in sanitation programming'; this describes key activities involved and their value to programming. It aims to spark sanitation and hygiene researchers’ interest in the potential for using participatory video.

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Sida

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Sanitation Learning Hub

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Mercer, E. (2023) ‘Exploring Female-headed Households’ Sanitation Needs, Tasikmalaya', SLH Learning Paper 17, The Sanitation Learning Hub, Brighton: IDS, DOI: 10.19088/SLH.2023.015

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SLH Learning Paper 17

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Sanitation Learning Hub/IDS

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Indonesia

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en

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Participation Power and Social Change

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The Sanitation Learning Hub::5e50f69d-6102-4a66-b12d-49ceb02612b0::600

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