# The foundation’s India sanitation programme sits beside Modi’s Swachh Bharat

Date: 2019

## The fact

Through the 2010s the Gates Foundation funded India sanitation and open-defecation programmes alongside the government’s Swachh Bharat, a completed grant cluster [Gates](/people/bill-gates) publicly owned.

## Context

Neighbouring Modi is a different person. Neighbouring GAVI is a different health file. He did not write a Ministry of Jal Shakti statute.

GAVI is neighbouring immunisation. Giving Pledge is neighbouring capital.

Bill Gates was Microsoft CEO until January 2000, chairman until February 2014, then a technical adviser until 2020, and a Gates Foundation co-chair. That is not authorship of every Windows copy, every GAVI dose, or every IRS schedule. Melinda French Gates is a different person. Bill Clinton is PER-000772, a different person. A pledge is not a coverage rate. A docket is not a personality.

## Evidence and sources

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is health-system-adjacent sanitation and [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion): a completed latrine-and-behaviour grant cluster is an attempted faecal-oral-disease instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2010s Gates-funded India sanitation cluster, independently reported.

Not established: that open defecation ended, or a unique later child-stunting coefficient from a grant.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Indian ministries ran Swachh Bharat. Local governments built. Households used or did not.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The foundation’s India sanitation programme sits beside Modi’s Swachh Bharat, not a later speech about The foundation’s India sanitation programme sits beside Modi’s Swachh Bharat.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The foundation’s India sanitation programme sits beside Modi’s Swachh Bharat on 2019-10-02 is not a licence to treat every later Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The foundation’s India sanitation programme sits beside Modi’s Swachh Bharat into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His foundation granted. Indian ministries ran Swachh Bharat. Local governments built. Households used or did not. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Bill Gates: https://factrail.ai/people/bill-gates

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission
- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-sanitation-gates-idUSKBN1WH2K4
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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