1 Parbhani District Swachhata Plan st Strategy and plan to make Parbhani district ODF by 1 May 2017 Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 2 CONTENTS Contents ........................................................................................................................................... 2 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 3 1.0 State and District Vision ...................................................................................................... 3 2. Enabling Factors and Bottlenecks ............................................................................................. 6 3. The Strategy .............................................................................................................................. 7 4. Strategic actions and activity plan ............................................................................................ 8 4.1 Demand Management ........................................................................................................ 8 4.2 Demand Response Mechanism ......................................................................................... 17 4.3 Oversight and Monitoring ................................................................................................. 22 4.4 Sustainability Plan .................................................................................................................... 24 Institutional arrangements for implementation of the strategy ............................................ 25 Non-negotiables for the strategy ............................................................................................ 26 Activity Plan ............................................................................................................................. 28 Financial Plan........................................................................................................................... 32 5. Annexure ................................................................................................................................. 33 Annexure 1 List of Master Trainers and Motivators ............................................................... 34 Annexure 2 GP wise status of Sanitation ................................................................................ 38 Annexure 3: Officials who participated in preparation of the plan ........................................ 57 Annexure 4: Strategy proposed for high burden blocks ......................................................... 59 PriMove Pune UNICEF Mumbai Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 3 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, Parbhani decided to make the district ODF by 1st May 2017 and developed an appropriate strategy and detailed action plan, outlined in this document. The focus of this strategy is to achieve the target through convergence of SBM and MREGS. 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 Parbhani district: Total Units 9 blocks 703 2,40,482 hhs Gram Panchayats (GPs) Sanitation coverage 0 block ODF 122 GPs (17.4%) 99,971 hhs (41.6%) Target 9 blocks 581 GPs (82.6%) 1, 40,511 hhs (58.4%) 1.2 The Targets Block wise targets and achievement 1.2.1 Target as per BLS 2012 100% 80% An analysis of block wise status of 60% sanitation reveals that out of the 9 40% blocks to be made ODF, two blocks 20% have above 50% coverage, 4 blocks 0% have coverage between 40% and 50% and remaining 3 blocks have coverage below 40%. Details are Achievement Target given in table-2, below. 1 Announcement by Hon Chief Minister of Maharashtra on 19/11/2016 PriMove Pune UNICEF Mumbai Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 4 Two blocks (Jintur and Parbhani) have a target above 25,000 units in 212 GPs and contribute about 42% of the total target. Hence, these blocks need special attention. There are 85 GPs which have target below 50 IHHLs. Total 111 GPs have target above 350 IHHLs and these 110 GPs bear nearly 43% (61,325 IHHLs) of the district’s target. Table -2: IHHL coverage and targets Sr. Total % of ODF IHHL Target in Block Total HHs ODF GPs No. GPs GPs Coverage % numbers 1. Gangakhed 84 30010 14 17% 56.0% 13209 2. Jintur 136 40382 19 14% 36.0% 25862 3. Manwat 49 17665 10 20% 42.0% 10254 4. Palam 66 19892 9 14% 38.7% 12188 5. Parbhani 117 49202 22 19% 33.3% 32823 6. Pathri 49 19089 6 12% 41.9% 11086 7. Purna 79 25269 14 18% 42.7% 14482 8. Sailu 81 24700 16 20% 41.7% 14398 9. Sonpeth 42 14273 12 29% 56.5% 6209 Total 703 240482 122 17% 41.6% 140511 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 Mumbai Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 5 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. Target of additional families and Total 35, 675 new households formed defunct toilets add to the target in GPs after baseline survey do not load in the district. have a toilet, and The total target (BLS 2012+ 2 % of total toilets built so far are in additional families without IHHLs + some state of repair and are not in defunct toilets) in the district is usable condition or used for other 1,77,702 IHHLs purposes (defunct toilets) Two blocks (Jintur and Parbhani) contribute about 42% of the total target. These households, totalling about 37,191 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 Parbhani Defunct toilets Total additional Sr. No % to total families Block families Total defunct toilets with IHHLs 1. Gangakhed 4814 15 0% 2. Jintur 3803 409 3% 3. Manwat 3565 13 0% 4. Palam 3686 96 1% 5. Parbhani 6769 372 2% 6. Pathri 2773 368 5% 7. Purna 4242 125 1% 8. Sailu 4181 112 1% 9. Sonpeth 1842 6 0% Total 35675 1516 2% PriMove Pune UNICEF Mumbai Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 6 2. ENABLING FACTORS AND BOTTLENECKS Parbhani 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. -Utmost importnace by the CEO for pushing the program -Psychological barriers and implementation space constraints for construction and usage of -Capable and dedicated staff toilets -Active involvement of BDOs -High number of big GPs (19 and EOPs GPs with more than 1,000 -Focused approach by the households) government functionaries -Less involvement from -Steps already initiated by the officials of other district for convergence with departments like revenue, MREGS agriculture, etc. -Social media based daily -Less human power with BOTTLENECKS monitoring mechanism technical knowledge of two already functional pit toilets ENABLING ENVIRONMENT ENABLING -Availability of manpower -Smooth and timely fund trained on ODEP (2 master transfers trainers and 7 motivators) -Less time period available -Initiative by the district for achieving high target officials regarding ODEP- designing 'rapid ODEP' process PriMove Pune UNICEF Mumbai Parbhani District Swachhata Plan 7 3. THE STRATEGY This section presents the strategy and action plan adopted by Zilla Parishad, Parbhani to achieve the goal of making the district ODF by 1st May 2017. The primary aim of the strategy is to cover the 232 GPs under AIP (2016-17) through SBM (G) and remaining 398 GPs through MREGS. The strategy also focuses on covering additional families without toilets and families with defunct toilets, in convergence with MREGS and 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 Management • Strategic planning and prioritization of IHHL construction • Rolling out ODEP process for generating demand at village level and its consolidation at higher levels • Behaviour change communication for demand generation at hosuehold level • Involvement of elected representatives for higher visibility, enhanced outreach and oversight • Involvement of other stakeholders for positive behaviour change Demand Response Mechanism • Monitoring quality of construction of toilets • Effective convergence of government schemes • HR development and deployment to high burden areas • Supply chain management • Effective fund flow mechanism Oversight and Monitoring • Daily monitoring • Oversight by elected representatives • Concurrent online and offline data entry • Ensuring timely receipt of incentives by households • Regular meetings of people involved in implementation • Development of a special third party task force for monitoring • Sustainability