0 Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan Strategy and plan to make Osmanabad district ODF by March 2018 Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 1 CONTENTS 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Enabling Factors and Bottlenecks .................................................................................................... 5 3. The Strategy ..................................................................................................................................... 6 4. Strategic actions and activity plan ................................................................................................... 7 4.1 Demand Management ............................................................................................................... 7 4.2 Demand Response Mechanism ................................................................................................ 15 4.3 Oversight and Monitoring ........................................................................................................ 19 4.4 Sustainability Plan .................................................................................................................... 20 Institutional arrangements for implementation of the strategy ................................................... 21 Non-negotiables for the strategy ................................................................................................... 22 Activity Plan .................................................................................................................................... 24 Financial Plan .................................................................................................................................. 28 5. Annexure ........................................................................................................................................ 29 Annexure 1 List of Master Trainers and Motivators ...................................................................... 30 Annexure 2 GP wise status of Sanitation ....................................................................................... 35 Annexure 3: Officials who participated in preparation of the plan ............................................... 65 PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 2 1. INTRODUCTION 1.0 State and District Vision The Government of Maharashtra (GoM) has recently announced its vision of making the state Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2018.1 In order to contribute to this vision of the GoM, Zilla Parishad, Osmanabad decided to make the district ODF by March 2018 and developed an appropriate strategy and detailed action plan, outlined in this document. 1.1 Current sanitation situation in the district A snapshot of the sanitation situation, as of January 2017, with respect to baseline Survey 2012 (BLS-2012) is presented in Table-1 below. Table-1: Sanitation coverage in Osmanabad district: Total Units 8 Blocks 626 Gram Panchayats (GPs) 2,59,952 HHs Sanitation coverage 0 block ODF 52 (8.3%) 1,15,268 HHs (44.3%) Target 8 Blocks 574 (91.7%) 1,44,684 HHs (55.7%) 1.2 The Targets 1.2.1 BLS 2012 Target Sanitation targets and coverage An analysis of block wise status of sanitation reveals that out of the 8 100% blocks to be made ODF, one block has 80% above 80% coverage, 4 blocks have 60% coverage between 40% and 50% and 40% remaining 3 blocks have coverage below 20% 40%. Details are given in table-2, below. 0% Four blocks (Kalam, Omerga, Tuljapur and Osmanabad) have a target above Target Achievement 1 Announcement by Hon Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 19/11/2016 PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 3 20,000 units in 393 GPs and contribute about 73% of the total target. Hence, these blocks need special attention. Table -2: IHHL coverage and targets Sr. No. Block Total Total HHs ODF GPs % of ODF IHHL Target in GPs GPs Coverage numbers % 1 BHOOM 74 23447 2 2.70 42.96 13375 2 KALABM 91 35426 1 1.10 32.46 23925 3 LOHARA 45 24713 25 55.56 89.35 2633 4 OMERGA 79 40238 14 17.72 46.83 21394 5 PARANDA 72 22472 3 4.17 31.76 15335 6 TULJAPUR 113 45616 6 5.31 43.63 25714 7 OSMANABAD 110 53165 0 0.00 35.73 34169 8 WASHI 42 14875 1 2.38 45.28 8139 Total 626 259952 52 8.31 44.34 144684 Source: SBM data as on December 2016, data received from the district Following map presents the block wise targets of IHHL construction. PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 4 1.2.2 Additional families and defunct toilets: Two additional factors add to the target load. These are additional families and defunct toilets in the district. Additional families and defunct toilets add to the target load in the 26,936 new households formed in GPs district. after baseline survey do not have a toilet, The total target (BLS 2012+ and additional families without IHHLs + 5.8% of total toilets built so far are in defunct toilets) in the district is some state of repair and are not in usable 1,86,821 IHHLs condition or used for other purposes Four blocks (Kalam, Omerga, (defunct toilets) Tuljapur and Osmanabad) contribute about 73% of the total target. These households, totalling about 42,137 also need to be covered to achieve complete elimination of open defecation. Block wise status of additional families and defunct toilets in the district is presented in Table-3. Table-3 Additional families and defunct toilets in Osmanabad Sr. No Total additional Defunct toilets Block families Total defunct % to total families toilets with IHHLs 1 Bhoom 2220 1036 4.4% 2 Kalamb 3793 5673 16.0% 3 Lohara 1011 0 0.0% 4 Omerga 3192 1265 3.1% 5 Osmanabad 9517 0 0.0% 6 Paranda 4515 1821 8.1% 7 Tuljapur 0 4296 9.4% 8 Washi 2688 1110 7.5% Total 26936 15201 5.8% PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 5 2. ENABLING FACTORS AND BOTTLENECKS Osmanabad district has done well in moving towards achieving 100% ODF status in the district. This achievement is due to a vibrant enabling environment, though bottlenecks exist in some aspects. The same are presented in the schematic below. In moving forward, this strategy aims to strengthen the enabling factors and address bottlenecks. -Social media based daily monitoring mechanism already functional -Availability of manpower trained on ODEP (5 master -Psychological barriers for trainers and 8 motivators) usage of toilets -ODEP process -High number of big GPs (38 implemmented in almost all GPs with more than 1000 AIP GPs households) -Formation of 480 groups -Less involvement from which facilitate the toilet village level functionaries of constrcution activity other departments BOTTLENECKS - Involvement of TISS and -Issues in availability of Rotary club sand ENABLING ENVIRONMENT ENABLING -All GPs in the district will -Less time period available now be considered under AIP for achieving the target -Low involvement of political involvement - Insufficient HR at block and district level -Timely field verification of toilets and report submission PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 6 3. THE STRATEGY This section presents the strategy and action plan adopted by Zilla Parishad, Osmanabad to achieve the goal of making the district ODF by March 2018. While the primary aim of the strategy is to cover the BLS-2012 target, the strategy also focuses on covering additional families without toilets and families with defunct toilets, in convergence with other programs. Another key focus area of the strategy is to ensure sustainability of the ODF status. The unit of planning in this strategy is a block and builds on three pillars; (i) Demand Management (ii) Demand Response Mechanism and (iii) Oversight and monitoring. Key elements of these pillars are explained in the schematic diagram presented below. Demand Demand Oversight and Response Monitoring Management Mechanism Strategic planning and Monitoring quality of Oversight by elected prioritization of IHHL construction of toilets representatives construction Effective convergence Rolling out ODEP of government process for generating schemes Concurrent online and demand at village level offline data entry and its consolidation HR development Behaviour change Regular meetings of communication for people involved in demand generation at Supply chain implementation hosuehold level management Involvement of elected Sustainability representatives and Effective fund flow monitoring other stakeholders mechanism Next section of this document details the key strategic actions followed by the action plan. PriMove, Pune UNICEF, Maharashtra Osmanabad District Swachhata Plan 7 4. STRATEGIC ACTIONS AND ACTIVITY PLAN The key strategic actions and a detailed action plan under the three strategic pillars are captured in this section. 4.1 Demand Management District While there is a good awareness Swachhata about need for adopting Plan sanitation behaviour, there are Oversight some sections where the Demand and awareness is not yet translated Management into demand. Hence, generating monitoring demand for building toilets Demand among these sections is response mechanism paramount. Second, creating demand for making the entire GP ODF is also equally important and hence demand creation is a non-negotiable in this strategy. The district would adopt three processes for this; ODEP process- for generating demand for making the GP ODF, Behaviour Change Communications (BCC) for generating demand for building toilets