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GENDER INCLUSIVE SANITATION

A project by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Administered by Administrative Staff College of India.

Access to safe and sustainable sanitation ensures the health and wellbeing of the community. The provision of water, hygiene and sanitation plays an important role in protecting the public health of the community. It reduces the burden of treating preventable illnesses. Access to adequate sanitation is a matter of security, privacy and human dignity.

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Well served communities

Urban Poor

Vulnerable

population

Female

Male

Disabled

Boys (1- 6 yrs)

Girls (1- 6 yrs)

DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE

Narsapur has a population of 58,901 and 15,591 households as per the census 2011 data. Narsapur has a sex ratio of 1,041 females per 1000 males.

Sanitation service levels fall below the prescribed norms and there is a dire need to address the sanitation challenges in an integrated comprehensive manner. The critical issues identified are summarized below:

  • Lack of infrastructure for CT’s and PT’s and Improper O&M might lead to slippage in the vulnerable spots of the municipality.

  • Available Toilets do not address gender sensitive requirements.

  • Regulation and oversight of Onsite sanitation and septage management is absent, leading to wastewater dumping and potential risk of groundwater and surface water pollution.

  • Absence of treatment facility for solid waste and lack of source segregation leading to ineffective solid waste management.

  • There is no drainage network system and drains face severe abuse with ‘grey water flows’ and solid waste dumping.

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Vulnerability Mapping

A study was conducted by Narsapur Municipal Corporation in the town with ASCI and support of BMGF to map the vulnerable population, with the objective of identifying specific concerns and actions to address the same. This is in line with the city aiming to become inclusive sanitation town

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MAJOR INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS SAFE SANITATION

IHHL( Individual Household Toilets )

  • Out of the 903 individual toilets constructed, 224 IHHLs (about 25 percent) were constructed through Slum Level Federations (SFL) and the remaining 679 were constructed directly by the beneficiaries.

Maintainance of Community and Public toilets

  • The households without an individual toilet depend on the community toilets (CTs) in the town complexes. There are 19 community toilets and 5 public toilets (PTs) in the town

  • The maintenance  of these Public Toilets is given to Sulabh.

School Sanitation

  • There are 31 municipal primary, upper primary and high schools in the town. The O&M of these schools is met from the Municipal budget.

  • School teachers from 20 Primary Schools were trained in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) by ASCI with support from WASH United 40 children have been educated on hand washing and Menstrual Hygiene Management

  • Child Sanitation Committees are active in every school (students committee headed by Teacher).This committee monitors the cleaning and hygienic activities in the schools.

Inclusion of FSSM budget

  • In order to Strengthen the FSSM Policy at the Institutional Level, Allocation of Funds in the Budget is Necessary, in order to Strengthen this Policy allocation of 20,00,000 has been done which is under Process.

Implementing a Gender Inclusive Sanitation Framework In Narsapur

  • Urban Local Body along with MEPMA has been the key support in implementing the gender mainstreaming activities in Narsapur.

  • Towards this, a dedicated Gender Resource Centre (GRC) has been set up under the chairmanship of the Chairperson of Narsapur Municipality.

  • Various activities are conducted through Gender forum members on sanitation and hygiene.

Capacity building programmes and IEC activities

  • Municipal staff, council members, RWAs, CBOs, Educational Institutes are trained on ODF and ODF plus

  • Conducted division wise training on SWM D2D collection process to PH workers, Masteries and other workers.

  • Conducted workshops on Swachh Survekshan to Municipal employees and public representatives.

  • Training to Desludging Operators and Municipal staff on PPE for worker safety and wellbeing and FSM Tracker APP imparted

I have been a project associate to one out of 3 pilot towns that have been selected. Information copyrights to BMGF,ASCI,CSTEP and CFAR

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