Inauguration of hand pump

Objectives

• Help particularly women in alleviating their drudgery of bringing water from long distances
• Improve villager’s control over sources of water and maintenance of drinking water supply schemes through formation of water and sanitation committees
• Increase access to potable drinking water and protect community from waterborne diseases
• Generate awareness on practices of personal hygiene/environmental sanitation and health rights

Interventions

• Formation of Water and Sanitation Committees and training of these committees
• Selection and capacity building of village level Hygiene Educators
• Training Programs on different models of toilets and latrines, construction of compost pits, soak pits, waste water disposal, maintenance of hand pumps, water borne diseases, health rights, government schemes
• Exposure visits to government offices
• Organisation of health camps
• Development of IEC material
• Organisation of awareness campaigns using local folk songs, drama, poster exhibitions, competitions
• Advocacy efforts

Outputs

• Formation of 27 water and sanitation committees in 27 villages
• Kinds of actions taken by water and sanitation committees
• 1,956 Toilets constructed
• 1,850 Families using toilets every Day
• 95 Hand pumps installed
• 350 Soak pit units developed
• 360 Compost pit units prepared
• 15 Hygiene educators trained
• 2,000 Of families using safe practices of water handling at home
• 90 Hand pump mechanics trained
• 950 Families using constructed toilets
• Rs 1.5 crore government resources mobilised for construction of toilets and improving water supply
• 5,000 Trees planted and 20 per cent trees survived after three years

Impact

• 20 Villages provided improved potable water supply
• Reduction in time (in hours) required to fetch water in 20 villages
• Reduction in drudgery of women in fetching water (reduction in distance needed to be walked every day per trip of water)
• 20 Villages where water and sanitation committees are efficient and active in managing
• Water resources and water supply
• Reduction in instances of disputes/altercations over fetching water within villages
• Four open defecation free villages
• 10 Villages mobilised over health rights issues
• 20 Villages with reduced instances of water borne diseases
• 3,000 Families (who have constructed toilets and using it every day) with 50 per cent reduced expenditure or treating water borne diseases
• 20 Villages with epidemic free years over last five years of water borne diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid etc
• 27 Villages with overall improvement in environment sanitation practices