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| IRDS > Drinking Water & Sanitation Program |
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| Program Feature |
| Supported by : Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board (RWSSFDB). |
| Period: From 2nd April 1996 to till now. |
| Total budget: 63423361 |
| Working Area: Gauribas, Maisthan and Khairmara VDCs of Mahottari,Parwanipur, Patharcot and Atrauli of Sarlahi. Kamalamai municipality, Ranibas, Hatpate, ladabhir, Sirthauli, Harsahi and Nipane VDCs of Sindhuli district. |
| Staff: 105 |
| Batch: 2nd, 3rd, 4rd, 5rd and 6rd. |
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| Program details/ Achievement |
- Total Schemes: 20
- Total Households: 4300
- NO. of Users:23650
- No. of constructed school toilets: 22
- No. of constructed house-hold toilets: 1133
- No. of Saving/ Credit and Women technical support groups: 78
- No. of group member (women): 1576
- Total saving amount: 1566000
- No. of trained maintenance worker for Drinking Water System: 41
- No. of trained Village Health Worker: 22
- Users' groups become able to fully operate schemes themselves.
- Linkage and collaborate with local government and other agencies like DDC, VDC and District Drinking W/S office etc.
- Leadership skill developed in users' groups.
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| Background |
| IRDS has been involving in Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Program since 1996. Over the decade IRDS has completed 20 water supply schemes. |
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| Objective |
| To establish practical Community Action Plan (CAP) for the implement of sustainable community managed water supply and sanitation systems with optimum cost- effectiveness and maximum community participation and to increase capacity of local people for leadership, resource management and planning. |
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| Process and Activities |
- Formation and registration under the water resource Act of water Users' Committee.
- Different kinds of trainings were provided like community action plan, leadership development, Pre- constriction, post construction, VMW(Village Maintenance Worker),VHP( Village Health Worker), Water Users' Committee's treasurer and income generating training for the women groups.
- Conduct health and sanitation education.O&M fund and capital fund collection
- All the responsibilities of the program like project selection, designing, estimating and implementation etc. driven by the users' groups.
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| Lesson learnt |
- Program will be succeed and sustainable if all the responsibilities of the program given to the users' groups and organization play role only as a facilitator.
- Leadership Skills can be made concrete by strengthening the community and their organization.
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