Guest blogger
Dr. V. Kurian Baby is WASH sector expert formerly from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). He was IRC's India Country Director and Senior Programme Office within IRC South Asia Regional Programme. Having significant WASH sector experience, both at Policy and programme levels in India and abroad, he has worked for national/sub-national governments, NGOs, public corporate and donors (UNDP, World Bank, EU and JICA). He was Managing Director at the Kerala Water Board and Executive Director of the Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Agency (World Bank). He has a first class Masters in Economics, a Ph.D in Regulatory Economics and specialisation in project management (IIM-Ahmadabad), Environmental Economics & Development Policy (WBI-USA). He has a number of publications to his credit and is a reviewer for international journals.
We need to move beyond the easy option of coercion, humiliation and threats to stop open defecation. Read more...
IRC country director of India Kurian Baby on how to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Clean India, and what he wishes for his country in 2015. Read more...
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deviated from convention and made sanitation a central theme of his Independence Day speech 2014. He has announced a programme of Clean India to make the country Open Defecation Free (ODF) by 2019. In that year India will celebrate the 150 th birth... Read more...