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PARTNERS MEET Annual Water Aid Western Regional PARTNERS Program Progress & Planning For Ensuring access to Safe and sustainable WASH Facilities among Excluded & Marginalized Communities for improved health benefits in Morena District of MP Date -16 th -17 th April 2012.
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PARTNERS MEET Annual Water Aid Western Regional PARTNERS Program Progress & Planning For Ensuring access to Safe and sustainable WASH Facilities among Excluded & Marginalized Communities for improved health benefits in Morena District of MP Date -16th-17th April 2012 Partner Organization: Dharti
Annual Program Progress 2011-2012 on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program IN Pahargar Block of Morena District–MP
Project Objective • Achieving improved health status among socially excluded communities through provisioning of improved WASH services. • Empowering marginalized communities and local institutions to develop their leadership and decision making to secure their WASH rights. • Promoting an effective, equitable and inclusive WASH service delivery mechanism by sensitizing and enhancing accountability of service provider.
Key findings of Baseline: • DemographicProfile:.
Sanitation Status: • Total no of families: 10745 • No. of Toilets: 1345 • BPL Toilets: 721 • APL Toilets: 624 • Sanitation Coverage: 12.51% Families • Total no of Schools: 107 • School with Toilet Facility: 23 • Schools with Functioning toilet: 17
Achievements: • Hardware Activities: Water
Achievements……contd • Hardware Activities: Sanitation
Efforts Taken to influence Govt. • The organisation organised 4-5 networking meeting for scaling up the sanitation and hygiene program at the block. • Education department block office passed an order to all the schools at pahadgarh block to cooperate and promote the hygiene activity in their schools. • Dharti Started an awareness program on rural water supply scheme at pahadgarh, kailaras, jaura and sabalgarh block with the combined effort of MP JanabhiyaanParishad. • We had prepared a plan to construct combined sanitation facilities at one place for all communities at all the hilly areas and sharing with TSC coordinator and panchayat department. Both are agreed working on the plan during 2012-13 . • Continues deferent Media person visit in project area.
Challenges: • About 50% of the project area is water scarce. • 11-Village of the project area are on stony soil so digging for leach pit is a challenge to us. • The reach of resources at project area is also a challenge. • Very few transportation facilities are available at the project area and charges are also very high. • IntersectoralConvergence. • Low capacity of Panchayat.
Learning's: • Community monitoring system with the support of NGO to stop corruption: At Jaderu Panchayat 3 new school toilet were sanctioned but the sarpanch renovate the old building and showed as new construction. VWSC raised its voice against the issue with our support. After a long debate and verification Janpadpanchayat ordered recovery of the funds. • Public hearing can proved to be a very good tool to address the problems and solving at local level • Systematic efforts would be made to take up non functional existing water sources. • With the help of community good models would be created on Water, sanitation and Hygiene program.
Training Requirements: • Training and capacity building of project staff. • IEC material. • Technical and Resource support on Water point Mapper Tool. • Training on Advocacy. • Training on research methodology. • Hygiene Promotion. • Exposure of other state work for new staff.
Opportunity for research, Documentation and Advocacy in future Advocacy for promotion of Menstrual hygiene Under NRHM for all over district and its proper implementation. Research on WASH and relation of other activity. Studies the impact of MNREGA on Wash activity and its relation of community health. Joint Monitoring mechanisms on both health program and water and sanitation facilities in the village
