Situation Analysis: At the beginning, the Non Government Organization can gather initial information. The initially gathered information can be used as Baseline Information, which may be used to measure the progress of activities and in preparing ward Profile. The ward profile can include water and sanitation status, action plan, social map that can be following during the project period. Unit Profile have to be strictly followed during project implementation.
Project Sharing/ Lunching Workshop at Upazila Level: At the initial stage, any project can conduct Sharing/ Lunching session at the implementation area through ensuring the participation of all level stakeholders such as Civil society members, Teachers, Journalists, NGO representatives, Chairman of Union Parishad etc.
Negotiation Meeting: The negotiation meeting also can be conducted with the community people at the ward level for sharing with project plan, budget and strategies and role and responsibilities of community people.
Formation of Gram Unnayan Parishad: The project can form a 11 members Village Development Forum at each Ward and this forum can be chaired by the Local Elected Representative. The forum members can include Local Elites, Poor people, Teachers, Imam etc and this Forum can be formed in a democratic process. The Village Development Forum can be the key player in implementing the ward Plan. During the project period, the non government organization can build their capacity, so that they can contribute to the development related to water, sanitation and hygiene promotion. It is expected that this type of support can be continued for uncertain period.
Teachers Group: The project can also form another 12 members group with the Primary School Teachers. 3 Teachers groups can be selected from each school. The teachers who have high acceptability at the community level as well as interested in local development can be included in the group. The Union Parishad and non government organization have to jointly identify the teachers. The role and responsibilities of the teachers group are : a) Students Education on water and sanitation at the school level, b) Make door to door visit and provide counseling and motivation to the community people c) Participate in Gram Parishad Meeting and share with water and sanitation related issues d) The can prepare the progress report and submit to the non government organization and Union Parishad.
Training and Orientation: During the project period, the training and orientation could be provided among the Staff, Teachers, Village Development Forum members and Chairman of Union Parishad in order to increase their capacity and efficiency so that they play their respective role and responsibility efficiently and contribute to watsan sector.
Awareness Raising: Awareness raising on Hygiene Behavior related to water and sanitation is the key concern of the project. For awareness raising, the activities can be implemented are Community Mobilization, Courtyard Session, Health Education, Session for children, adolescent and mother group, Field day Observation and Discussion on Primary Health Improvement with Bazar Committee, Day Observation, Folk song, Hygiene Session with students, Poster, Bill Board installation and arranging campaign.
Installing Tube well and Latrine:
For Latrine supply, the project can establish production and sale center in Unions of working area. The Production and Sale center will produce the latrine and sale in the production cost. Non government organization cannot make any benefit from the sale center. It can be established only for helping the people in replacing the latrine with minimum cost. Furthermore, the government has the provision to provide ADB fund to Union Parishad for development and 20 % of the funds have to be used for latrine purposes. Non government organization can make all out effort to ensure the use of this for latrine especially for the hard core poor.
Non Government Organization can provide new Tube well in filtration gallery and ensure old tube well maintenance and household based rain water harvesting with safe water management system by communities and local government institutes. Non Government Organization can work in collaboration with LGIs, Village Development Forum and Teachers Group for quality implementation of the project intervention. Those who have no access to safe water within 150 miter distance that is allowed for tube well installation. Non government Organization and LGIs can ensure the installation of water points considering the Unit Profile.
Conducting Arsenic Test: Further, it will also require to ensure the arsenic test for each and every tube well of the working area.
Coordination Meeting: During the project, the Union based coordination meeting can be organized at least on Yearly basis. The participants of the meeting can be LGIs representatives, Representatives of Teachers Group, Representatives of Village Development Forum, Imam, DPHE representatives etc. The meeting can review the progress of activities performed by the different stakeholders, discuss with the problems and constraints, share with the next year plan and provide the recommendations. It needs to add here that the meeting can be presided over by UNO/UP chairman/ Higher Management of non government organization etc.
Meeting with Union Parishad: Any NGOs can conduct meeting at Union Parishad on Monthly/ Quarterly basis with a view to review the progress of activities. The participants can include in the meeting are members of UP, Representatives of Gram Unnayan Parishad and Teachers Group as well as non government organization staff. The discussion of the meeting must share with the water and sanitation issues.
Advocacy: The project can identify the advocacy issues at the grass root level and initiate dialogue with the policy making level. Furthermore, the advocacy can be performed for further replication of the model and expansion of the water and sanitation related program.
0 comments:
Post a Comment