
Towards Brown Gold
@browngold_gcrf
Multidisciplinary @GCRF research project reimagining inclusive, sustainable & community-led #sanitation in off-grid towns #Ethiopia #Ghana #India #Nepal @IDS_UK
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Sanitation is one of the most off-track #SDG 🚨 So how can we realise the potential of 'brown gold' to help get it back on track? Join Towards Brown Gold and @WaterAid for an exciting event to discuss how we can achieve this. 📅19 September Register now 👇 ids.ac.uk/events/realisi…

Join us at WEDC 2024! We'll be discussing #ClimateChange and #Sanitation, exploring intersections and blind spots in rapidly urbanising towns of #Africa and #Asia. 📅9 September ⏰14:30 UK time Find out more and register👇 ids.ac.uk/events/climate… Shilpi Srivastava Institute of Development Studies

Join the IDS-led Towards Brown Gold project in this exciting event on 9 September as part of the WEDC conference! Speakers include: Shilpi Srivastava, IDS Prof Lyla Mehta, IDS hair Prasad, IIT Bombay shibaji bose, Consultant and others. Find out more👇 ids.ac.uk/events/climate…

At WaterAid & WaterAid Nepal we have been part of the Towards Brown Gold study led by the Institute of Development Studies and focusing on urban sanitation and the potential of reuse of faecal waste. We will soon publish a global policy brief - join the 19th September launch online: ids.ac.uk/events/realisi…


Not too late to register for this exciting Towards Brown Gold WaterAid UK 💦 Institute of Development Studies event tomorrow. With Andrés Hueso González Mariam Zaqout 🇵🇸 Paul Deverill Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Sam Drabble Water and Sanitation for Urban Populations & Alan Nicol

Fantastic event at WaterAid with Prof Lyla Mehta Andrés Hueso González Alan Nicol Mariam Zaqout 🇵🇸 Water and Sanitation for Urban Populations and Paul Deverill! We discussed the challenges to realising #BrownGold and some of the ways we can find the solutions. 📽️ Recording available soon.


‘We need to make economics more human-centred and holistic, more attuned to the inequalities that the current growth paradigm has generated and to the harm it has inflicted on people and planet.” Great interview w Naila Kabeer

Thank you The Indian Express ! Our PI Prof Lyla Mehta and our partner IIT Bombay researcher Hariprasad V M on Towards Brown Gold efforts to unmask invisible challenges & rights of our brethren engaged in sanitation work The Sanitation & Hygiene Fund Sanitation Coalition Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (#DDWS)

True Towards Brown Gold Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) . These outputs and translations to the general audience (people who matter) are indeed a transformative approach. Water and Sanitation for Urban Populations Ministry of Jal Shakti, DoWR, RD&GR, GoI Ministry of Jal Shakti, DoWR, RD&GR, GoI Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (#DDWS) Prof Lyla Mehta @

Our project partners at University of Brighton @JamesEEbdon and Diogo Trajano Silva are working on a separate project in #Bangladesh. Find out more about what they are doing👇

#SwachhBharat must focus on the invisible sanitation worker. Prof Lyla Mehta Hariprasad V M wrote for The Indian Express about sanitation challenges, and the opportunities to reimagine off-grid and innovative sanitation solutions. Read now👇 indianexpress.com/article/opinio… #WorldToiletDay #WDT

📣IDS Webinar! Indian Development at a crossroads? With Anand Teltumbde Medha Patkar Gladson Dungdung Prof Lyla Mehta ثمرین 11 Dec | 10:00am UK time | 15:30, India time. Register now: 👉ac.pulse.ly/vhonmjvjwv NAPM India #India #GlobalDev #DevStudies #Development


Excited to chair this Institute of Development Studies event with inspiring speakers Medha Patkar Anand Teltumbde Gladson Dungdung who will talk about resistance to to top-down development models & grassroots responses to authoritarian developmentalism. Pls join us on Dec 11 (10 am UK/3.30 pm IST)

An insightful and interactive panel from the Towards Brown Gold at the 5th IPPN conference held IIT Bombay.The panel members of "Sanitation policy process: Insights from the Brown Gold Project" were Alan Nicol Prof Lyla Mehta Shilpi Srivastava, Deepa Joshi and Govind Shrestha


"Whether as a weapon of war, or through corruption, mismanagement & criminal behaviour – or even just wanton neglect – humans are actively or passively destroying #water systems" #Hydrocide #HumanRightsDay2024 by Alan Nicol & R Sands 💧 Water Integrity Network 💧 waterintegritynetwork.net/post/human-rig…