A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Augsburg, Britta Research Report Safe sanitation: Findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Orissa, India. Financial Inclusion improves sanitation and health - FINSIH Project IFS Report Provided in Cooperation with: Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London Suggested Citation: Augsburg, Britta (2011) : Safe sanitation: Findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in Orissa, India. Financial Inclusion improves sanitation and health - FINSIH Project, IFS Report, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/64581 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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Britta Augsburg April 2011 1 Contents 1. Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 4 2.1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.2. Project Background ................................................................................................................. 5 2.3. Project Components ............................................................................................................... 6 2.4. Specificities of FINISH with BISWA .......................................................................................... 7 2.5. Extension to FINISH with BISWA - SIMAVI ............................................................................ 10 2.6. The FINISH Evaluation Study ................................................................................................. 11 2. Methodology ................................................................................................................................ 13 2.1. Randomization ...................................................................................................................... 13 2.1.1. The randomization Design: ........................................................................................... 13 2.2. Sampling Size and Strategy ................................................................................................... 15 2.3. Outcome Indicators .............................................................................................................. 15 2.4. Instruments for Data Collection ............................................................................................ 18 2.5. Specifics for Study in Orissa with BISWA .............................................................................. 20 2.6. Comparison between Treatment and Control ...................................................................... 21 3. Findings – Households .................................................................................................................. 23 3.1. General Household Characteristics ....................................................................................... 23 3.2. Household Members and the Household Head.................................................................... 25 3.3. Sanitation & Bathing ............................................................................................................. 29 3.3.1. Toilet Ownership ........................................................................................................... 29 3.3.2. Toilet Usage ................................................................................................................... 30 3.3.3. Households without own toilet .................................................................................... 31 3.3.4. Bathing facilities ............................................................................................................ 32 3.4. Water .................................................................................................................................... 33 3.5. Consumption ......................................................................................................................... 35 3.6. Assets .................................................................................................................................... 36 3.7. Income .................................................................................................................................. 37 3.7.1. Comparison Income & Consumption ............................................................................ 38 3.8. Credit, Savings and Insurance ............................................................................................... 39 3.8.1. Credit ............................................................................................................................. 39 3.8.2. Savings........................................................................................................................... 41 3.8.3. Insurance ....................................................................................................................... 41 3.9. Shocks ................................................................................................................................... 42 2 3.10. Health ................................................................................................................................ 43 4. Findings – Women ........................................................................................................................ 45 4.1. Background and Status ......................................................................................................... 45 4.2. Hygiene Practices .................................................................................................................. 48 4.2.1. Personal Hygiene- bathing ............................................................................................ 48 4.2.2. Personal Hygiene - toilet ............................................................................................... 49 4.2.3. Personal Hygiene – menstruation ................................................................................. 50 4.2.4. Food Hygiene ................................................................................................................ 50 4.3. Children ................................................................................................................................. 52 4.3.1. Babies (0-18 months) .................................................................................................... 52 4.3.2. Children (1.5-16 years) .................................................................................................. 53 4.4. Knowledge............................................................................................................................. 53 5. Findings – Communities ............................................................................................................... 56 A.1. Population & Transportation ................................................................................................ 56 A.2. Waste .................................................................................................................................... 59 6. Conclusion .................................................................................................................................... 61 7. Future Directions .......................................................................................................................... 62 8. Annex ............................................................................................................................................ 63 A.1. Sampling List & Outcome of randomization ......................................................................... 63 A.2. Survey challenges & Learning – report by survey managers ................................................ 66 3 1. Overview 2.1. Introduction FINISH – Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health. The overall goal of the project itself is to built 1 million safe toilets (possibly sanitation