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Learnings & Approaches WaterAid – Water for All WaterAid is an International NGO, established in 1981, in response to the United Nations declaration of the Water and Sanitation Decade, 1980–90, to enable better access of poor communities to adequate, safe water. WaterAid remains the UK’s only major charity dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people. WaterAid works in 15 countries across Asia and Africa, through local organisations and communities, helping them set up low cost, sustainable projects using appropriate technology that can be managed by the community itself. WaterAid also seeks to influence SANITATION FOR ALL – the water and sanitation policies of other key organisations, such as governments, to secure and protect the right of poor people to safe, affordable water and sanitation services. WaterAid in India STILL A LONG WAY TO GO WaterAid began working in India in the latter part of the 1980s with a few small projects and has since grown in strength and coverage. Today, WaterAid works in more than 10 states with three regional offices in Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar and Bangalore, in partnership with local NGOs and government departments and ministries that seek assistance in the specific areas of rural and urban water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion. Community sustained improvement in drinking water and sanitation has been WaterAid’s watchword in all its programmes. Different models of community participation and management, of both rural and urban water supply and SANITATION FOR ALL – STILL A LONG WAY TO GO sanitation, alternate delivery mechanisms, school hygiene promotion programmes, water conservation and recharge measures have been demonstrated to the sector. These projects have a strong partnering component with state governments and departments and have proved to be the inspiration behind successful replications in other states. A vast array of publications, including training manuals for development workers, issue sheets and concept papers for advocacy initiatives and IEC material have been jointly developed with NGO partners and are in wide circulation. WaterAid has participated in collaborative initiatives with the government and other agencies including the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), the Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) of the World Bank, UNICEF and DFID. Alliances are important for core programming concerns of rural and urban programming for water and sanitation, Integrated Water Resources Management and Networking with a range of government departments and government organisations, at the national and regional levels in India. WaterAid India is committed to making its own contribution to the MDG challenge and is open to exploring ways of partnering with all stakeholders for achieving water and sanitation for all. { SHAPE \* MERGEFORMAT } WaterAid India Country Offi ce Regional Offi ces WaterAid India Regional Offi ce East Regional Offi ce West Regional Offi ce South 25, Navjivan Vihar Plot No. 1266, E7/846 Arera Colony Rahat Residency Gitanjali Paradise Malviya Nagar Bhoinagar, Unit 9, Bhopal - 462016 #102, 1st Floor, Rahat Bagh New Delhi - 110017 Bhubaneshwar - 751022 Madhya Pradesh Nagavarpalya, Bangalore-560093 Tele: 91-11-26692206/ Orissa Telefax: 0755-4294724 Karnataka 26693724 Telefax: 0674-2382262 Telefax: 080-25240704 Fax: 91-11-26691468 Email: [email protected] WaterAid – water for life The international NGO dedicated exclusively to the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education to WaterAid India the world’s poorest people. 2006 WaterAid India is thankful to all the different donors/agencies for their support and assistance SANITATION FOR ALL – STILL A LONG WAY TO GO Learnings & Approaches Compilation for the Second South Asian Conference on Sanitation, Pakistan, September 2006 WaterAid India 2006 © WaterAid India, 2006 Any part of this publication may be translated or reprinted with due acknowledgement to WaterAid, India Published by WaterAid India Published by 1st Floor, Nursery School Building WaterAid India C-3, Nelson Mandela Marg 1st Floor, Nursery School Building Vasant Kunj, C-3, Nelson Mandela Marg New Delhi - 110070 Vasant Kunj, Tel: 0091-11-46084400 New Delhi - 110070 Fax: 0091-11-46084411 Tel: 0091-11-46084400 Email: [email protected] Fax: 0091-11-46084411 Email: [email protected] Design and Printing New Concept Information Systems Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi -110 076 Tel : 91-11-26972748, 26973246 European Union The research/views contained in the publication are the sole responsibility of WaterAid India and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of European Union Contents Abbreviations v Foreword vii SECTION 1: Lead Article Sanitation Firmly on the Map: But Still a Long Way to Go — by WaterAid India 1 SECTION 2: Case Studies 1. Sanitation for the Poor Urban Slum Dwellers Tiruchirappalli City shows the Way — by Gramalaya and WaterAid 13 2. A Pledge for Achieving Total Sanitation with People’s Participation The Medinipur Experience, West Bengal, India — by Anjal Prakash and Manabendra Bhattacharjee 18 3. Challenging Exclusion through Water & Sanitation Journey of Gram Vikas — by Biraj Swain 24 4. Urban Sanitation for the Poor Ruchika Social Service Organisation — by Berna Mary Victor 30 5. Incentive-led Sanitation Initiative in Orissa, Eastern India: WaterAid — by Shipra Saxena 34 6. Linking Bio-gas and Toilets in Rural South Gujarat, India A case of AKRSP(I)’s Initiative — by Ajay Mishra 39 7. Sanitation Campaign: PRIA’s Experience — by Nilanjan Ghose 43 8. Actualisation of an Idea for Urban Sanitation with People’s Participation A case of Pune Municipal Corporation — by Asha Ramesh and Anjal Prakash 46 9. Vedireswaram – Abode of Development A success story of Byrraju Foundation-adopted ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ village — by VSN Raju 51 SECTION 3: Approaches, Papers and Issues 10. Beyond Sanitation A case study of Jalna district of Maharashtra, India — by Nipun Vinayak 53 11. NGOs’ Involvement in Promotion of Sanitation in Gujarat State — by Ishwarbhai Patel 63 12. Ensuring Water and Sanitation: The SHG Way A case study of Keerapalayam Experience — by Manu Prakash 66 13. Model of Cleanliness A case study of Kharoudi village in Punjab — by Shipra Saxena 75 14. Sanitation Technologies and their Scalability Sulabh International — by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak 83 15. Sanitation: Practice, Behaviour or Naked Vulnerability? A position paper on availability and accessibility of sanitation for women in slums of Ahmedabad — Anjal Prakash and Meena Jagtap 89 16. Leaders in Change: Women and Sanitation A paper presented at Women and Sanitation Conference — by Chandra Ganapathy and Shipra Saxena 101 17. Sanitation Campaign... Sets Us Free The Tamil Nadu Experience — by Santa Sheela Nair and Amudha Periasamy 109 SECTION 4: Annexures Annexures 1: Status of TSC: State-wise 115 Annexures 2: List of NGO Partners with Contact Details 121 Abbreviations AKRSP (I) The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) APL Above Poverty Line BPL Below Poverty Line CBO Community Based Organisation CLTS Community Led Total Sanitation CMT Community Managed Toilet CRSP Central Rural Sanitation Programme DDWS Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation GoI Government of India GV Gram Vikas GVM Gram Vikas Mandal IEC Information, Education and Communication JFM Joint Forest Management MDG Millennium Development Goals MED Micro Enterprise Development MPLADS Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme MVV Mahila Vikas Mandal NFHS National Family Health Survey NGO Non Governmental Organisation NGP Nirmal Gram Puraskar NRM National Resource Management NURM Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission O&M Operation and Maintenance PIM Participatory Irrigation Management PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal PRI Panchayati Raj Institutions PTS Public Toilets RHEP Rural Health and Environment Programme RSM Rural Sanitary Marts SA Shelter Associates SCALE Sustainable Community Based Approach for Livelihood Enhancement SCOPE Society for Community Organisation and People’s Education v Abbreviations SHG Self-Help Group SHE Sanitation, Hygiene & Education SPARC Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centre SSHE School Sanitation and Hygiene Education TSC Total Sanitation Campaign ULB Urban Local Bodies VEC Village Executive Committee WAVE Women’s Action for Village Empowerment ZP Zila Parishad vi Sanitation for All – Still a Long Way to Go Foreword Despite massive outlays for drinking water and standards and the past government emphasis on sanitation in India, access to safe drinking water expensive standardised latrine designs. remains a challenge. Institutional challenges in rural and urban drinking water and sanitation remain a The challenge of poor rural sanitation coverage arises major hurdle. These include addressing leakages in for a variety of social and economic factors and not official spending, monitoring of progress and creating simply from individual behavioural resistance, which linkages between different agencies. has been the dominant discourse for explaining poor coverage. The way rural livelihoods are structured in The failure of increased coverage and access may India, the increasing migration from their rural areas be a combined result of ineffective programmes to unsanitary urban areas, has a negative impact on and policies as well as worsening livelihoods of the attitudes and behavioural change. Social taboos of poorest communities on the one