Total Sanitation through Behaviour change in Meghalaya Pravin Bakshi Deputy Commissioner & Chairman, DWSM, West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, INDIA
Overview • Name of session: “Scaling up rural sanitation” Title of presentation : “Total sanitation through behaviour change in Meghalaya” • Name of presenter with organization details : Pravin Bakshi, Deputy • Commissioner & Chairman of District Water & Sanitation Mission , West Garo Hills , Meghalaya Worked as Deputy Commissioner & Chairman of DWSM , East Garo Hills (71 • NGPs in 2011-12 - All India Rank -15 th ) and Deputy Commissioner & Chairman of DWSM, West Garo Hills (216 NGPs in 2011-12 – All India Rank -1 st ) Email : pravinbakshi@hotmail.com • Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Moving from unsafe sanitation to safe sanitation through Summary collective behavior change in Meghalaya, India • Then : Up to 2009 prevalence of unsafe toilets , fixed point defecation , supply driven , department driven , top-down approach – unworkable. • Now : In 2009, in partnership with Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) on CLTS mode Government of Meghalaya shifted to community led and demand driven decentralized approach targeting collective behavior change at community level vis-à-vis earlier individual household level . The approach shifted to strengthening institutional set-up , capacity building of the district teams and inducing behavior change by incentivizing the outcomes reinforced with community monitoring. • Results : As a result of ceaseless efforts from the state and the district administration the toilet coverage ( safe toilets) in rural Meghalaya increased to 70 % as on end of December 2013 from near nil figures of 2004-06. Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Key Presentation/Discussion points The goal and the objectives of Nirmal Meghalaya premised on the following guiding principles: Community driven Outcome focused Incentivization for results Local tradition based approached Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Cumulative IHHL Sanitation Achieved 240871 250000 232604 218198 200000 166648 150000 101231 100000 53975 50000 23971 660 0 0 0 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 IHHL Covered Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Financial Amount Approved and Spent ( Amt. in Lakhs) 5000 4558 4500 4408 3969 4476 4000 3500 Amt. In Lakhs 3000 2372 2500 1818 1980 Approved Amt. in Lakh 2000 1445 Expenditure Amt. in Lakh 1500 1614 1000 974 1223 550 308 500 73 644 0 0 0 133 0 125 Year Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
NGP Awarded GPs 900 768 800 700 600 Nos. of GPs 500 365 400 300 160 200 100 52 11 0 0 0 0 0 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Series1 0 0 0 0 11 52 160 365 768 Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Application for NGPs 2012-13 (No. of Villages) 1231 1400 1200 768 1000 800 600 400 200 0 No.of Villages Applied for NGP No.of Villages cleared by inter- in 2012-13 district teams after verification Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Barriers/Challenges as identified • Hilly & inhospitable terrain , & lack of approach roads made worse by armed insurgency & law and order challenges • Poor access to services & ‘fatalism’ of indigenous tribal societies • Absence of representative Gram Panchayat institutions due to Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India • Weak capacities of the traditional village institutions & entrenched traditional mindsets Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Key Success Drivers Supply driven to demand driven – participative and collaborative approach, mapping, IEC, walk of shame Strengthening of delivery teams through capacity building & incentivization – trainings, exposure visits, felicitation, NGP incentive Collaborative partnership with traditional indigenous village institutions – Nokmas (village headmen & traditional chieftains, Church & NGOs etc.) Effective supply chain management - Rural Sanitary Mart with NGOs Decentralized monitoring by traditional village heads and NBA Facilitators & Coordinators Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Recommendations for Next steps/what should be done • Sustainable sanitation through institutional support and community monitoring & ownership with a Block level approach • Cluster & village level volunteers with customized ICT tools • Interpersonal communication through village level motivators and other functionaries like ASHA workers, Anganwadi workers (AWW) and VWSC • Convergence with IAY , MsDP (Minority Scheme) , MGNREGA & BRGF • Incentivization of end beneficiaries Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Awards & Recognition
THA THANKS NKS Email: pravinbakshi@hotmail.com Contact No.:+91-9436708560
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