WORLD TOILET SUMMIT-2007

NEW DELHI, INDIA

31st October to 3rd November, 2007

PROGRAMME BULLETIN

VENUE

1. Sessions and Expo : India Habitat Centre

31st October to 3rd November, 2007 Lodhi Road, New Delhi

2. Visit to Sulabh Gram : Sulabh Gram, Mahavir Enclave

9.00 a.m. – 12 noon Palam-Dabri Road
31st October, 2007 New Delhi-110 045
Ph. : 25031518, 25031519, 25057748
Fax : 25034014, 45521733
Email : sulabh1@nde.vsnl.net.in

3. Inauguration Ceremony : Vigyan Bhawan

3.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m. Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi
31st October, 2007

4. Cultural Programme & Dinner : Embassy of The Republic of Bulgaria

6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. EP 16-17, Chandragupta Marg
31st October to 1st November, 2007 Chanakyapuri
New Delhi – 110 021

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 WORLD TOILET SUMMIT-2007
NEW DELHI

DAY 1 : OCTOBER 31, 2007

9:00 am to 12:00 Noon : Visit to Sulabh Gram, Mahavir Enclave

Palam-Dabri Road, New Delhi-110045
Phone : 011-25031518, 25031519

9.00 am : Group Photo at Sulabh Lawns

9.15 am to 11:45 am Visit to –
Sulabh School
Sulabh Toilet Museum &
Sulabh Technology Park
11:45 am : TEA

1:00 pm to 1:30 pm : Inauguration of EXPO by Ms. Yukta Mookhey

Former Miss Universe and Actress at
India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm : LUNCH at India Habitat Centre

3:30 pm to 6:00 pm : Inauguration Ceremony at

Vigyan Bhawan, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm : TEA at Vigyan Bhawan

6.30 pm to 10:00 pm : Cultural Programme and Dinner

at Embassy of The Republic of Bulgaria
EP 16-17, Chandragupta Marg
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi – 110 021.

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DAY 2 : NOVEMBER 01, 2007

Venue : India Habitat Centre

Lodhi Road, New Delhi
8:30 am to 9.00 am : TEA

9:00 am to 10:30 am : SESSION-I

Attaining the Millennium Development Goals

Guest – HRH the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands

Chairperson – Dr. Abdul Sattar Yoosuf, Director,

Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments,
WHO-SEARO

Co-Chairperson – Ms. Christine Werner, HOD of Ecological Sanitation,

GTZ, Germany

Guest Speakers – Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, Member of Parliament, India

Ms. Lizette Burgers, Chief WES, UNICEF

Keynote Speakers – Dr. Kulwant Singh, Chief Technical Advisor,

Water for Asian Cities, UN-HABITAT
– Mr. Shatrughan Singh, IAS
Secretary, Urban Development Energy and
Housing Department, Govt. of Uttarakhand

Reporteur – Mr. Kumar Rajnish

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:
S.No. Title Author Country

1. Annual Ministerial Review for 2008 Ms. Meena Sur U.N. Organisation
2. ECOSAN: The need for a Paradigm Ms. Christine Werner Germany
Shift to Meet the MDGs Mr. Arne Panesar

3. Learning Exchange with Panchayat to Mr. Anil K. Singh India

scale-up Sanitation Coverage to
Attain MDG

4. Evidence based Intervention needed Ms. Alakananda India

to meet MDG Seven and Target 10 Mohanty

5 Water, Sanitation and Shelters in Mr. Vikram Rajola/ Singapore

. South East Asia – Experience and Prof. Li Bing
Strategies of Lien Institute for the
Environment (LIFE)

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 DAY 2
10:30 am to 12:00 Noon : SESSION-II

Policy, Programme and Promotion of Sanitation –

Experiences and Perspectives
Guest – HRH the Prince of Orange of the Netherlands
Chairperson – Mr. Ashwani Kumar Chaubey
Minister for Urban Development, Government of Bihar
Co-Chairpersons – Mr. Amar Agarwal
Minister, Urban Administration & Development Department,
Government of Chhattisgarh
– Mr. Debasish Nayak, Minister, Information &
Public Relations, Sports & Youth Services, Govt. of Orissa
Guest Speakers – Mr. Prakash Pant, Minister,
Department of Tourism Department, Uttarakhand
– Mr. Randeep Singh Surajewala
Minister of Power, Water & Sanitation, Govt. of Haryana
– Mr. Debi Prasad Mishra, Minister, Excise & Tourism
Govt. of Orissa
Reporteur – Mr. Kumar Rajnish

S.No. Name Country

1. Dr. Prem Kumar India

Minister for Public Health Engineering Department,
Government of Bihar
2. Mr. Ajay Tamta India
Minister, Department of Social Welfare, Uttarakhand
3. Mr. Dato Wee Han Wen Malaysia
City Mayor, MIRI City Council
Sarawak, Malaysia
4. Mr. Mohd. Amin Hassan Malaysia
Acting Mayor, Council of the City of Kuching South,
Jalan Padungan, Malaysia
5. Mr. P.J. Rao India
Mayor, Greater Vishakhapatnam
Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh
6. Mr. K. Dorabbai India
Deputy Mayor, Greater Vishakhapatnam
Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh
7. Ms. Nivedita Pradhan India
Mayor, Cuttack Municipal Corporation, Cuttack, Orissa
8. Dr. Dinesh Sharma India
Mayor, Lucknow Municipal Corporation, Lucknow, U.P.
9. Mr. Manjit Singh, IAS, Secretary India
Local Self Govt., Govt. of Rajasthan
10. Dr. Rakesh Kumar, IAS India
Collector Dehradun, Govt. of Uttarakhand
11. Mr. G.K. Dwivedi, IAS India
Vice-Chairman, MDDA, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
12. Mr. R.A. Rajiv, IAS India
Addl. Municipal Commissioner (City) Maharashtra

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 DAY 2
12:00 noon to 02:00 pm: SESSION-III

Urban Sanitation

Chairperson – Mr. S.K. Singh, IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing

and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Govt. of India

Co-Chairpersons – Mr. Senaka Samarasinghe, Land Use Planner and

Consultant, Sri Lanka
– Mr. Ramanand Tiwari, IAS, Principal Secretary
Urban Development, Govt. of Maharasthra

Guest Speakers – Mr. Ajit Kumar Jain, IAS, Principal Secretary,

Water Supply and Sanitation, Govt. of Maharashtra
– Mr. Subhash Chandra, IAS, Secretary,
Urban Development, Govt. of Karnataka
– Mr. Arun Kumar Sinha, IAS, Secretary
to Chief Minister, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh

Reporteur – Mr. Kumar Rajnish

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:
S.No. Title Author Country
1. Toilets on the Television: A critical Sanitation Mr. Shane Jacobson Australia
message in the Global Media Context
2. Ancient Greek Lavatories A Distinctive cultural Mr. Georgios P. Antoniou Greece
Habit on Domestic Privacy
3. A Process Design For Decentralised Sewage Mr. Shwetal Shah India
Treatment System With Total Natural Resource Mr. Gyan Sagar
Management
4. Management of UD Dry Toilets: The Fisherman’s Mr. Dave Mateo Japan
Village Housing Project of San Fernando City, La Mr. Agnes Goze
Union, Philippines Mr. Saburo Matsui
5. Towards Development of A Ms. Rowshan Mamtaz Bangladesh
Standard For Public Toilets For Developing
Countries
6. Developing New Public Toilet Standards: 50 Mr. Johannes Bergmann Germany
Public Toilets in Hanover, Germany
7. Multiculturalism Under Threat And Poverty Mr. Senaka Sri Lanka
Perpetuate If Toilet Culture Not Introduce Among Samarasinghe
Immigrant Children
8. Availability of Restrooms In The United States Mr. Robert Brubaker USA
And Federal Public Health Mandates: A Call to Ms. Carol McCreary
Action
9. Why Canada needs a Toilet Organization Mr. Ari Grief Canada
10. Experience in the improvement of toilets in Japan Mr. Koo Ue Japan
and the JTA’s activities to support other
countries
11. Real life case - A successful socio- commercial Mr. J.D. Bhardwaj UAE
model (Chrysalis)
12. The Product Design of Public Use Sanitaryware Ms. Elaine Williams England
Products in the UK and how this affects the
Users with Specific Reference to Age, Gender
and Religion

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13. “Sanitation is Dignity” Awareness raising, Mr. Thilo Panzerbieter Germany
Advocacy & marketing in the International Year of Mr. Reinhard Marth
Sanitation
14. Sulabh Public Toilet and its Management Mr. Sudhakar S. Kinni India
15. Current Movements and Sanitation of Toilet Prof. Cheng-Li-Cheng Taiwan
issues in Taiwan – A brief Report of Devotion
activity and vision of TTA
16 Mapping the Urban Poor Ms. Mamita B. Thakkar, India
Ms. Indira Khurana
17. Public Toilets Improving Sanitation – Design, Ms. Susmita Shekhar India
Construction, Maintenance and Management

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm : LUNCH

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 DAY 2

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm : SESSION-IV

School Sanitation and Gender Mainstreaming in

Health and Hygiene Promotion
Chairperson – Mr. B.P. Singh, IAS (Retd.)
Mahatma Gandhi National Fellow &
Former Union Home Secretary, Govt. of India

Co-Chairpersons – Dr. Tom Keating, Founder, Project Clean, USA

– Ms. Namwebe Mary, Social Development Officer,
Uganda

Guest Speakers – Dr. Kaushal Singh, Consultant, Hillingdon Hospital, UK

– Mr. R.S. Verma, IAS, Secretary
Department of Civil Supplies & Sports, Govt. of Jharkhand
– Mr. Sudhir Agarwal, IAS, Chief Executive Officer-cum-
Special Secretary, State Urban Development Authority
Govt. of Chhattishgarh

Reporteur – Dr. Suman Chahar

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:
S.No. Title Author Country
1. School Sanitation – Sulabh Mr. Y.D. Mathur India
School Sanitation Clubs
2. The Role of Health Clubs in Ms. Namwebe Mary Uganda
School Sanitation Promotion
3. Plumbing, Sanitation and Prof. Subhash M. Patil India
Human Health (Health Aspects
of Plumbing)
4. School Sanitation and its Impact Mr. Narasimharao India
on Development Chilukuri
5. Sanitation Infrastructure in Prof. S. Tripathi India
Schools in India
6. Project on Rural Health and Mr. Purul Shepu Henry India
Sanitation Programme Paotei
7. School Sanitation and Hygiene Ms. Anita Miya India
Education among Schools : An Ms. Seema Paharia
Experience from Gujarat, India
8. Hygiene and Sanitation Mr. Kumar Rajnish India
Promotion through ICT
Development Tools
9. Ecosan Pilot Projects in Schools Mr. Martin Wafler Germany
in India Mr. Martin Mcwan
Mr. Johannes Heeb
10. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene in Dr. Bijaya K. Shrestha Nepal
Rural Schools of Nepal
11. Dignity to Women - Meeting the Ms. Abha Bahadur India
Millennium Development Goal
on Sanitation

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12. Child to Child Interaction in Ms. Santa Nivedita and India
School Sanitation Club – The Neha
Orissa Experience
13. School Sanitation Club in Rural Ms. Shusma Khanal Nepal
Area
14. Drinking Water - A Major Ms. Sanya D. Prakash India
Problem for the People of Delhi and
Mr. Archit Jha
15. Leading Students in School Dr. Tom Keating U.S.A.
Restrooms from soap to
citizenship to improve wellness

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5.00 pm to 6:30 pm : SESSION-V

Rural Sanitation
Chairperson – Mr. A. Bhattacharya, IAS, Joint Secretary,
Department of Drinking Water Supply,
Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India.

Co-Chairpersons – Mr. Bekele Abaire, Water and Sanitation Program

Manager of Catholic Relief Services, Ethiopia
– Mr. C. Somasekhara, IAS, Director,
Department of Tourism, Govt. of Karnataka

Guest Speakers – Mr. Anis Ansari, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary &
Agriculture Production Commissioner,
Govt. of Uttar Pradesh
– Mr. Jay Shanker Tiwari, IAS, Secretary,
Department of Labour, Govt. of Jharkhand

Reporteur – Mr. Kumar Rajnish

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:
S.No. Title Author Country
1. Sanitation in Rural India: Government Mr. J.B. Kshirsagar India
Initiatives Mr. Pawan Kumar
2. Individual Household Toilets in a Rural Dr. Meera Krishna India
Community – the Thennamanallur
Experience
3. New Sanitation System: An Ecologically Dr. S.M. Dhabadgaonkar India
Sustainable Option for Rural & Semi-
urban Areas In India And Other
Developing Countries
4. Creating Safe Environment Through Dr. Rymala Mathen India
Introduction of Sanitary Latrines in a Dr. Sathyavathi Muthu
Rural Area
5. Design of a Modified Compact Septic- Mr. Monto Mani, B.V. India
Tank to Suit Coastal (Island) Habitations Venkatarama
with High- Water Table Mr. Reddy, Santosh M.
Avvannavar
6. Community Based Integrated And Mr. Narender Paul Nepal
Sustainable Sanitation Programme (in place of Dr. Kshama
Metre)
7. Implementing Sanitation Interventions Mr. Tumwebaze K. Innocent Uganda
to ensure toilets for all, based on one
model village in Uganda (Approaches,
Lessons and Experiences)
8. NEWAH – Working towards Community Mr. Bipul Gyawali Nepal
– Led Basic Sanitation for All Ms. Laxmi Poudyal
(in place of Rattan K. Siddhi)
9. Basic Onsite dry sanitation when last Mr. J.N. Bhagwan South Africa
did we look down the pits?
10. Ecological Sanitation : Arborloo is Mr. Bekele Abaire Ethiopia
Breaking Sanitation Challenges

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11. Role of Vermitechnology in Rural Dr. Renu Bhargava India
Sanitation

6.30 pm to 10:00 pm : Cultural Programme and Dinner

at Embassy of The Republic of Bulgaria
EP 16-17, Chandragupta Marg
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi – 110 021.

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DAY 3 : NOVEMBER 02, 2007

Venue : India Habitat Centre

Lodhi Road, New Delhi

9:00 am to 11:00 am : SESSION-VI

Sustainable Sanitation & Environment

Chairperson – Prof. K.J. Nath
Former Director, All India Institute of
Public Health & Hygiene, Govt. of India

Co-Chairpersons – Mr. Arne Panesar, Project Expert, Department of

Ecological Sanitation, GTZ, Germany.
– Dr. Vijay Kumar, IAS, Commissioner
Department of AYUSH, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

Keynote Speaker – Padma Bhushan T.V. Antony, IAS (Retd.), Tamil Nadu

Guest Speakers – Dr. A. K. Merchant, Secretary, National Spiritual

Assembly of the Bahai’s of India
– Mr. Malay Shrivastava, IAS, Commissioner
Secretary, Urban Administration & Development
Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
– Mr. Shailesh Kumar Singh, IAS, Municipal Commissioner
Lucknow Municipal Corporation, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh

Reporteur – Dr. Suman Chahar

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:

S. No. Title Author Country

1. UN International Year of Sanitation Ms. Christine Werner Germany

2008 and the Sustainable Sanitation Robert Gensch &
Alliance Soren Rud
2. An Excerpt from “Poop culture: How Mr. Dave Praeger USA
America is Shaped by its Grossest
National Product”
3. Source Separation Technique for Kunwar Durg Vijay India
Recovery of Nutrients from Human Singh Yadav
Excreta
4 Technology and Design options for Mr. M. Subburaman India
On-Site Sanitation (ECOSAN)
5. Treasure in Sewer : Trapping for Mr. Arun K. Sharma India
organic farming
6. Modern Techniques for use of urine Mr. S. Kirupa India
as a replacement for chemical
fertilizers
7. Ki-Water Saving Technology Mr. Hans Keller Switzerland

8. Sanitation and related Sustainability Christine Werner Germany

Criteria Jan Fischer
Justus Lodemann

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9. Sustainable Sanitation Technologies Dr. P.K. Jha India
to Improve Health & Environment :
Sulabh Experience
10. Ecosan- Training courses of the Mr. Dayanand Panse India
Ecosan Service Foundation (ESF)
11. Do we really need to shift to Dr. Amarjeet Singh India
pedestal type of latrines in India? Minhas
(Demedicalisation of Hemorrhoids
therapy/prevention)
12. Total Health Care Programme for Dr. S. Nath India
Community through Sanitation
Technologies developed by Sulabh
13. Mechanisation in Environment Mr. R.C. Yadav
Control for Converting Waste into
Health for Agriculture

11:00 am to 11:30 am : TEA

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11:30 am to 12:30 pm : SESSION-VII

Toilets in Trains and at Railway Platforms

Chairperson – Prof. Ishwar Chauhan, Former Vice-Chancellor,
Bhopal University

Co-Chairpersons – Mr. Chong Vui Kuet, Assistant Environmental

Health Officer, Malaysia
– Mr. Ramnath Jha, IAS, Principal Secretary
Transport, Govt. of Maharashtra

Guest Speakers – Dr. Amit Kumar Agrawal, IAS, Addl. Deputy

Commissioner-cum-Chief Executive Officer
DRDA, Panipat, Haryana
– Mr. Manu Kumar Srivastava, IAS,
Addl. Municipal Commissioner (Project)
Govt. of Maharashtra
– Mr. V.K. Chaubey, IAS, Administrator,
Ranchi Municipal Corporation, Govt. of Jharkhand
– Mr. I.C. Kumar, IAS (Retd.), President,
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation

Reporteur – Dr. Suman Chahar

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS:

S. No. Title Author Country

1. Cost Effective and Simple Eco- Mr. T.S. Sheshadri India

Friendly Train Toilet System

2. Toilets and Trains Mr. G. Raghuram India

3. High Tech Train Toilet Ms. Masha Nazim India

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12:30 pm to 2:00 pm : SESSION-VIII

Mobilization of Financial Resources

Chairperson – Mr. Arthur Wood, Vice-President,
Ashoka Social Financial Services, UK

Co-Chairpersons – Mr. S.P. Singh, IAS, Principal Secretary,

Urban Development, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
– Mr. Jitendra Shukla, Commissioner,
Municipal Corporation, Raipur, Govt. of Chhattisgarh

Guest Speakers – Mr. Raghav Chandra, IAS, Principal Secretary,

Urban Administration and Development,
Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
Mr. A.K. Pandey, IAS, Principal Secretary,
Urban Development, Govt. of Jharkhand
Mr. Aniruddhe Mukerjee, IAS, Additional Secretary
Finance, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh

Reporteur – Mr. Kumar Rajnish

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS :
S.No. Title Author Country
1. Rehabilitation and Alternate livelihood Dr. Suman Chahar India
of Scavenger Women: success story
of Sulabh’s Initiatives
2. Towards a Single Window clearance Ms. Meenalochani India
in a public private partnership model Raghunathan, M. Balaji
for public toilets in India Mr. Avanish Kumar,
K. Jagadish Nanaji
3. Toxins In Toilets Mr. Mantha V. Sharma India

4. Global Sanitation Bond Fund Dr. Arno Rosemarin Sweden

5. The Bottom of the Issue Mr. Jack Sim Singapore
6. Who will Become the Tipping Point Dr. Charles Bernard Maclean USA
Philanthropic Champion for Toilets as
Keys to Public Health & Economic
Development in the 2008 United
Nations Year of Sanitation?
7. Financial Mobilization for Global Mr. Arthur Wood USA
Sanitation Fund

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm : LUNCH

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3:00 pm to 4.30 pm : Finalisation of Draft Recommendations of the

Summit and Delhi Declaration.

4:30 pm to 5:00 pm : TEA

5:00 pm : Valedictory Session

– “Hall of Fame Award”
Mr. Jack Sim, Founder, World Toilet Organisation
– Presentation of Recommendations of the Summit and
Adoption of Delhi Declaration –
Prof. K.J. Nath, Chairman,
Sulabh International Social Service Organisation
– Valedictory Address by Smt. Kanti Singh
Minister of State: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Govt. of India
– Vote of Thanks – Mr. A.K. Singh, IFS
CEO, Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation

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DAY 4 : NOVEMBER 03, 2007

1:30 pm : Closure of the Expo at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

2:00 pm : LUNCH, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

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