What sets apart our OHOT model is the inclusion of community members right from data collection to monitoring. The families themselves contribute to the construction of the toilet and which gives them the freedom to customize their toilets and construct them at their own pace, thus ensuring the sustainability of this initiative. SA has facilitated over 26,000+ individual toilets, impacting the health and living conditions of over 1.5 lakh slum dwellers across 7 cities in Maharashtra. The OHOT especially understands and caters to the most vulnerable individuals like women, menstruating girls, the elderly, and the disabled, giving them a dignified and safe option. The OHOT has been listed as one of the best practices in sanitation by HUDCO while it has also received recognition from UN-Habitat, NASSCOM, and FICCI.

The OHOT program in slum settlements is monitored through a comprehensible spatial interpretation. In the below map, we see a significant impact in Balaji Nagar of Pimpri-Chinchwad which demonstrated a 71% rise in the household toilets, and a reduction in toilet seat to family ratio from 1:23 to 1:6