DWSC

West Garo Hills , Meghalaya

HIGHEST NGP AWARDS IN THE COUNTRY -2011

VIEWS , COMMENTS & OPINIONS ON SANITATION

2011 Nirmal Gram Puraskar

WEST GARO HILLS

216 NGPs

HIGHEST IN INDIA

THE BEGINNING Credible and accurate baseline survey

inviting and involving the local community by voluntary co-option and on principles of philanthropic social service and community ownership

Use of mobile tracking to improve fidelity of survey data and generating GPS data and maps

Involving civil society institutions and NGOs for concurrent monitoring during the baseline survey to institute mid course corrections

Proactive and concerted initiative for early identification of stakeholders , technology partners and representative institutions which will facilitate ownership of the programme

After the baseline survey is complete test surveys to corroborate the data findings and its user friendly compilation open to public domain

Mass publicity for the phase of baseline survey , data compilation , uploading to a website with unhindered access to public domain and in-built system of inviting feedback to a designated data centre by email or SMS

THE BEGINNING

Involvement of women at all stages Involvement of the vulnerable sections like

indigenous people , minorities and marginalized social groups

Data capture by electronic media for spontaneous generation of real time data

Involvement of all government departments from the initial stage of survey , data compilation and its dissemination

Monitoring at all levels

STAKEHOLDERS HOLD THE KEY

Involving the community in the stage of implementation and execution by all means

Extensive and interesting use of IEC by skits , street plays , songs and folklore

Reaching out to the community in the local media and understanding the cultural context

IEC by print and electronic media , distribution of pamphlets , booklets , competitions

Simplistic understanding of sanitation and hygiene for the uninitiated rural poor

CLTS

A team of field workers preferably already working field functionaries having some rapport with the rural target population to be identified

They could be the field level monitoring staff of Health , Education , Social Welfare Departments who have established confidence in the targeted rural population by their years of field work

The team to be dedicated for rural sanitation and gets an attractive honorarium which is incentivize by performance and not in the form of fixed salaries

DEDICATED TEAM

MORE ODF MORE INCENTIVES AND HONORARIUM

AWARDS AT PUBLIC FUNCTIONS AND EXPOSURE VISITS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL STAFF

TRAINING , RE-TRAINING , VISION BUILDING FROM TIME TO TIME

MONTHLY REVIEW AT THE VILLAGE , BLOCK , SUB-DIVISIONAL AND DISTRICT LEVEL

ASSURED CAREER PROMOTION FOR THE MERITORIOUS AND THEIR CO-OPTION AS CLTS FLAG BEARERS AND MASTER TRAINERS

INCENTIVES FOR THE TEAM

IEC at the village level Inducing “shame” , “embarrassment”,

unlearning , breaking behavioral attitudes and techniques of walk of shame etc

Coordinated approach for IHHL , institutional toilets school toilets and Anganwadi toilets

Involvement and necessary co-option of all diverse population , religious and linguistic groups with the principle of “no exlusion”

Village leve impact counts

Has worked in CLTS everywhere People respond to the challenge and tae oath

to make villages ODFStakeholders NGOs , peoples, representatives Teams within teams and RSMs

OPEN CHALLENGE TO THE PEOPLE

Targeting Blocks which are small and nearer to the district HQ for concerted and coordinated efforts

Multiple strategies for IHHLs , school sanitation and Anganwadi baby friendly toilets

Convergence with all existing programmes on a mission mode like NRHM , SSA , RMSA , School Health Education Programme , BRGF , ICDS and coordinated convergence meetings

Aggressive and clear media campaign with print and electronic media

NIRMAL DISTRICT

District School Education Officer and his staff Sub-Divisional School Education Officer District Social Welfare Officer Child Development Project Officer District Medical and Health Officer & NRHM

staffBlock Development Officers

DISTRICT & OTHER LEVEL OFFICIALS KEY TO SUCCESS OF NIRMAL BHARAT ABHIYAN

ASHAsAnganwadi workers LP/UP school teachers Gaon Buras / Nokmas VWSCs and VECs – two powerful institutions School Management Committee

DISTRICT & OTHER LEVEL OFFICIALS KEY TO SUCCESS OF NIRMAL BHARAT ABHIYAN

No funds , no passion Funds on time from state corpus like SRESUntied fund at the district Convergence at the programme level initiated

by the Deputy Commissioner who heads innumerable committees at the district level

District Level convergence CommitteeIBDLP – Water Mission Water Resources dept to streamline and

support NBA with supply of water , water filters , schemes like Jalmani and Jalkund

MANAGING THE FUND FLOW

MoU with partner NGOs for school sanitation Triggering also for school and Anganwadi

sanitationAgreement with SMC for maintenance of

toilets in school with roster duty of cleaners and students

Clean washing habits Sanitation can be fun , should be fun !Making use of TLMs , teacher grants , school

grants Innovative use of funds and channelizing with

support of community

MoU is the way

THANK YOU

“If not us, then who?If not now, then when?”

― John Lewis