World Toilet Day 2020
As World Toilet Day is coming up on the 19th November I thought it was important to talk about the importance of water and sanitation facilities. In my previous blog posts, I have focused around rural communities and their struggles to access water resources, today, I will focus more on urban African communities. As urbanisation has quickly transformed much of the global south, it is now estimated that 1 billion people live in informal settlements globally (UN Habitat, 2020) . These informal settlements often are characterised by limited water and sanitation facilities although they have vibrant with innovation. In this blog I will discuss the importance of water and sanitation facilities in general but also specifically for women and also the violence women face accessing these facilities looking at a report from Nairobi, Kenya. Water and Sanitation for Women Sanitation is often determined inadequate due to the lack of water resources but for a long time, this linkage was ignored b