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Liby Johnson
Liby Johnson is the Executive Director of Gram Vikas, Odisha. He is a
development management specialist with more than 22 years’ experience
of grassroots/policy-level work in both the government and
non-government sectors. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural
Management from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA),
Gujarat. Liby coordinated Gram Vikas’ relief, rehabilitation, and
reconstruction activities after the 1999 Odisha Super Cyclone, and
post-Indian Ocean Tsunami reconstruction efforts taken up by SIFFS
(South Indian Federation of Fishermen Societies) – a fisher people’s
collective in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
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Rural sanitation: A charter of demands
A government survey shows that 93% of rural households in India have access to a toilet and 96% of those having a toilet use them. However, critics point out contradictions between these data and micro-level assessments in different parts of India. Based on his experience of working for more than two decades in rural Odisha, Liby Johnson argues that an effective rural sanitation model requires both financial assistance to the households, and an integrated water supply.
