Under the Clean Green Pakistan initiative Government of Pakistan, the Ministry of Climate Change has organized a two-day consultation on Sanitation Market Shaping to review the recommendations of the recently conducted Sanitation Market Assessment study in South Asia. Organized in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Pakistan Ceramic Manufacturers Association, the consultation has brought together representatives of the private sector and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector Partners to review the findings of a sanitation market assessment conducted by UNICEF in three South Asian Countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Addressing the inaugural session of the consultation, the Minister of State for Climate Change, Ms. Zartaj Gul Wazir said, “Engagement with private sector is a vital factor for the success of Clean Green Pakistan Movement. It is pertinent to note that while more than 28 million households are estimated not to access safely managed sanitation services, more than 20 million people in Pakistan defecate in the open.” “Clean Green Pakistan movement is serving as a pre-cursor to the upcoming demand for sanitation. We have high hopes from private sector partners as change does not come without partnerships, devotion and emotions. I encourage you to support us in meeting the sanitation demands and provide low-cost solutions - through which every Pakistani can become a part of the Clean Green Pakistan Movement,” she added. The Federal Minister for Climate Change, Mr. Malik Amin Aslam, addressed the concluding session of the consultation said, we’ve been looking at sanitation issue from a lens of crisis but the correct lens is of opportunity. Clean Green Pakistan movement is a trigger to make opportunities available to public/private departments. There’s money in waste management and it's treated as a business model around the world, it's time we start treating it like an opportunity in Pakistan too instead of a crisis. We plan to take learnings from Islamabad plastic bag ban and make that a model city to launch this ban in other cities across the country" *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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