SFD (level 2) Report - Sunwal Municipality, Nepal

Sunwal Municipality is situated in Nawalparasi District of Lumbini Province in the southern region of Nepal. It was established on May 18, 2014 by merging the Village Development Committees (VDCs), Swathi and Sunwal. On March 10, 2017, it was reformed by merging the Ramnagar area and ward 6 of Dhurkot VDC with the already-existing Sunwal Municipality. It is divided into 13 wards.As per the national population and housing census conducted in 2021, Sunwal Municipality has a total population of 72,085 with 33,793 male and 38,292 female population. It has altogether 17,418 households (National Statistics Office, 2023). The annual population growth rate of Sunwal Municipality is 2.42% (Sunwal Municipality, 2023).

Nawalparasi District was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) on June 30, 2015. But 1% of households
do not have toilets whereas 99% of households have the coverage of improved sanitation facility. The households without improved sanitation facility opt for open defecation.

The SFD graphic shows that excreta generated from 48% of the population are safely managed while 52% of the population are unsafely managed. The safely managed FS generated from 46% of population is temporary as the FS has not been emptied. With the current practice of faecal sludge management (FSM), the proportion of safely managed FS will become unsafely managed once the containments start filling up.

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