5 City & State Government Leaders from Tamil Nadu working towards safe and inclusive sanitation

Chennai, 28^th September, 2022: National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance, a collaborative body that drives the discourse on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) forward in India, announced the launch of the second edition of ‘Frontline Stories of Resilience’ – a platform featuring Government officials as India’s Sanitation Champions. This platform is hosted as a website, and amplifies the crucial role and efforts local city and state leaders play in ensuring service delivery and safety of sanitation workers and vulnerable communities. This platform showcases the leadership of government officials in ensuring public service delivery, enabling cross-learning of leadership best practices and will act as an agent to inspire sector practitioners, organizations, and leaders from other cities and states to act towards achieving inclusive and sustainable sanitation outcomes.

Effective sanitation service delivery is crucial to move towards achieving SGD 6 and the role played by efficient and strong leadership is paramount in delivering and implementing safe sanitation services to the last mile. The objective of Frontline Stories is to amplify the personal motivations, leadership styles and innovative initiatives of leaders towards providing support in safeguarding physical safety, mental well-being, enabling dignified livelihoods of sanitation workers along with ensuring access and sustenance of essential public services to underserved communities. As part of the national level platform, five inspirational leaders from state and local government bodies of Tamil Nadu have been featured.