SANT GADGEBABA GRAM SWACHHATA ABHIYAN (Sant Gadgebaba Clean Village Campaign) B. K. Sawai ( Director, WSSO) Government of Maharashtra Water Supply & Sanitation Department
Overview • Name of session: Monitoring Systems & reward schemes ( Sant Gadgababa swachata award scheme) in Maharashtra • Title of presentation : A Community led Campaign for Clean & Prosporous Villages • Name of presenter with organization details: B. K. Sawai ( Director, WSSO) Government of Maharashtra Water Supply & Sanitation Department Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Summary Sant Gadge Baba Gram Swachta Abhiyan Sant Gadge Baba Gram Swachta Abhiyan is an innovative experiment based exclusively on community participation. Experiment aims to eradicate unhealthy, ugly and embracing atmosphere by adopting healthy practices at household and community level along with developing facilities to make the life easy. It also aims to reduce dependency on government and to develop community institutions to shoulder responsibility. The high appreciation across the state has made it successful. State has proud to say that experiment brought unbelievable positive culture in the field of community development
Key presentation/discussion points Goal Evolution of Policy : (Post 2000) Strategy Institutional Structure CAMPAIGN PHASES Evaluation System Awards after Performance Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation
Goal ‘Prosperity through cleanness’ • To bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas. • To create competition among villages for betterment of village development . • To create cleanness in house, village and environment with help of people participation • To develop the initiatives among peoples regarding participatory rural development • To eliminate open defecation to minimize risk of contamination of drinking water sources and food.
Evolution of Policy : (Post 2000) State of Maharashtra adopted this Paradigm Shift of • Supply Driven to Demand Driven approach • Household subsidy to community rewards • Government’s role - Implementer to facilitator Since then major programs are launched in Water & Sanitation Saint Gadgebaba Clean Village Campaign
Strategy adopted in Maharashtra • Decentralized implementation at Local Governance level • Campaign launched in the name of socio spiritual leaders Sant Gadgebaba and Sant Tukdoji Maharaj. • Most popular, respected personalities Mr. Anna Hajare, Mr. Amitabh Bacchan and Ms. Madhuri Dixit promoted the campaign and helped in branding. • No up front Financial Support Prize to community - No individual recognition • Sensitized through IEC and Exposure Visits.
Strategy adopted in Maharashtra • Frequent visits to model villages to upgrade the motivational level of other villages & efforts to sustain the changes • Involvement of all stakeholders involved at the village level through committee
Institutional Structure for Implementation Nodal Department, Water Supply & Sanitation Deptt District Units (33 Zilla Parishad) Block Unit (351 Panchayat Samitis) Village Unit (27,902 Gram Panchayats) Sant Gadagebaba Gram Swachhata Samiti
Gradation of GPs at Zilla Parishad constituency Evaluation team of Zilla Parishad constituency level will check all GPs under ZP constituency and do the gradation as follows; • A- 60% and Above • B- 50% to 59% • C- 49% and below Only ‘A’ grade GPs are eligible for the next level ‘B’ & ‘C’ grade GPs try for ‘A’ grade in next year
PHASES OF THE CAMPAIGN Planning phase Sr. No Time period Activity 1 st to 25 th Sept 1 Meeting at divisional level under the chairmanship of Guardian Minister 26 th to 29 th Sept 2 Meeting at Block level under guindship of Block Development officer 30 th Sept 3 Meeting at Grampanchyat level under and formation of SGBGSA committee 1 st October 4 Women Gramshaba for SGBGSA 5 2 nd October Formally launching of SGBGSA in Gramshaba in every GPs
P HASES OF THE CAMPAIGN Implementation phase Sr. No Time period Activity 3 rd to 4 th Oct 1 Awareness about Village Clean and Mesons meeting 5 th to 7 th Oct 2 Awareness and Work on Solid & liquid waste management 8 th to 9 th Oct 3 Personal Hygiene (Nail cutting, Hair cutting ect) 10 th to 14 th Oct 4 Cleanness of Home 15 th Oct 5 Hand washing Day 6 16 h to 18 th Oct Cleanness of School and Anagnwadi 19 th to 20 th Oct 7 Cleanness of public places 21 th to 22 th Oct 8 Cleanness of Animals 23 th to 28 th Oct 9 Road reparing, cleanness and Labour contribution 29 st to 31 st Oct 10 Water Quality demonstration and Training 11 1 st to 5 th Nov Cleaning of drainages, Solid & liquid waste management 6 th Nov 12 Eassay, Slogan Competition
PHASES OF THE CAMPAIGN Implementation phase Sr. Time Activity No period 7 th to 8 th Healthy Child competition 13 Nov 9 th Nov Awareness about Epidemic deceases 14 10 th Nov to IHHL Construction and up- 15 30 Dec gradation 31 Oath Day (Sankalap Divas)
PHASES OF THE CAMPAIGN Evaluation phase Sr. No Time period Activity 1 st Jan to 5 th Jan 1 Submition of Baseline data to BDO till 30 Sept and progress during the Campaign period 6 th 20 th Jan 2 ZP constituencies level Evaluation and Grading A, B & C 26 th Jan 3 Prize distribution of ZP constituencies level 27 th Jan to 10 th Feb 4 Preparation for Block level competition 5 11 th to 28 th Feb Evaluation of Block level and result 1 st to 10 March 6 Prize distribution of Block level 11 th to 14 th April 7 Preparation for District level competition 15 th to 30 th April 8 Evaluation of District level and result 9 1 st May Prize distribution of District level
PHASES OF THE CAMPAIGN Evaluation phase Sr. No Time period Activity 2 nd May to 30 June 10 Preparation for Divisional level competition 11 1 st to 10 August Evaluation of divisional level and result 15 th August 12 Prize distribution of divisional level 13 16 th to 30 th Sept Preparation for state level competition & Evaluation 2 nd Oct 14 Prize distribution of divisional level
Evaluation Criteria for Successful Campaign Sr. No. Component Points 1 Drinking Water Management 30 2 Waste Water Management 15 3 Individual Toilets 30 4 Solid Waste Disposal 20 Environmental Sanitation (Village 5 20 and House) 6 Personal Hygiene 10 Information, Education, 7 10 Communication 8 Non-Conventional Energy 15 9 Family Planning 20 10 People's Participation 25 11 Innovative Activity by Community 5 Total Points 200
Evaluation Teams At Different Level Z.P. Constituency Block District Division BDO CEO(Z.P.) Div. Commissioner PRI Members Block level Officers Dy. CEO Divisional Officers Medical Officer NGO Other HODs NGO/PRI Member Senior Teacher Representative NGO Press Reporter ICDS Supervisor Press Reporter Representative PRI Member Press Reporter State To maintain the quality, transparency & to PHASE – I PHASE – II involve multilevel, multi sector experts state 2 NGO has developed special teams at each level. Principal Secretaries, Representatives WSSD & RDD The assessment is made through inter block, Press Reporter inter District & Division teams is UNICEF/WSP Last winner PRI another specialty of the evolution mechanism Representative Member to promote unbiased approach Dy. Secretary
Awards after Performance • 3 Cleanest Villages In Each Block – Rs. 25000, Rs.15000, Rs.10000 • 3 Cleanest Villages In Each District – Rs 50,000, Rs. 30,000, Rs.20,000 • 3 Cleanest Village In Each Division – Rs. 10 L, Rs. 8 L, Rs. 6 L • 3 Cleanest Village In The State – Rs. 25 L, Rs. 15 L, Rs. 12 L Awards distribution by Hon State Governor & Hon Chief Minister Prize Money to be utilized for Village Development Activities Sarpanch, VWSC chairman & women representative receives the prize
SPECIAL PRIZES • Many villages/GPs excel in one of the activities related to sanitation – But fail to achieve overall performance . However, individual activities are equally important and considering this - – Special prizes for such activities introduced since 2003 • Abasaheb Khedkar Award for outstanding work in family welfare • Vasantrao Naik Award for outstanding work in drinking water and waste water management • Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Award for outstanding work in social integration and community mobilization • Sane Guruji Award for best school • Sawitribai Phule Award for best Anganwadi One Grampanchayat ( not selected for over all performance) for district, division and state each is selected for the prize in all category
Impact of Sant Gadge Baba Campaign • This campaign has ignited the community spirit • Large amount of voluntary labour mobilised by the community • Every year Rs 300 crores public facilities are created in the state. (Study of UNICEF) • Villages have better living conditions • Local Self Government empowered • The Governments’ faith increased in decentralization; as a result the campaign launched for periurban & urban areas also.
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