jharkhand's performance in the tsc_ shardendu narayan (wsm)_2012
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Shardendu Narayan, Engineer –In –Chief cum Member Secretary, State Water & Sanitation Mission, Ranchi, Jharkhand presents his state's performance in the TSC.TRANSCRIPT
SUCCESS IS NOT ABOUT DOING DIFFERENT THINGS IT IS DOING THE SAME THING DIFFERENTLY- WITH CONVICTION, EMPATHY & PASSION!
Shardendu NarayanEngineer –In –Chief cum Member SecretaryState Water & Sanitation Mission,Ranchi, Jharkhand
Participatory Learning & Actionwhere community comes forward to take up the process while facilitating agency sidesteps and becomes an inspiring spectator, ensure a success which is desirable, sustainable and universally replicable.
CLTS
Ownership of the campaign to the communityNo Top down approach. Primary stake holders are informed, empowered to take the decision about the very fate of any project.
Successful intervention
• Empowering Panchayati Raj.• Empowering Women Participation.• Understanding community and its need of
sanitation.• Interaction with Community.• CLTS Approach.• Opinion Building.• Emerging of Natural Leaders.• Follow up
First Approach
To understand the socio political economy of the village.Five NGO members visit to interact with the community and influential persons of the village. Winning confidence of PRIs and tribal chieftainDiscussion about the project and its benefit to community / better and healthy lifeCommunity mobilization for the triggering exercise
Opinion BuildingIn village gathering PRA activities is being carried outMobilization of villagers Village mapping Various triggering tools were used to acknowledge the unsafe and bad defecation practice
Demand Generation
TRIGGERING TOOLS•Walk of shame•Quantification of human excreta left in open/day •Path of fly •Foul air-water-food•Creation of sense of disgust among villagers •Understanding of heavy social and economic price of open defecation
Identification of natural leadersDuring the trigger session, the villagers are convinced enough to voluntary display the desire to change this situation. This interaction is also used to identify the natural leaders of the community.
Follow ups
These natural leaders became the ambassadors of the programme.
This whole process set the ball rolling followed by the orientation programme of motivators, natural leaders and motivators.
Follow ups
After 50% HH constructed and used ToiletsAll the household were divided in three categories- MANUSHYA, BILLI AND SUWAR (Human, Cat & Pig).
Follow ups
Chart displayed on a prominent place.
The natural leaders with the help of team members started conducting small meeting with the families in the last two categories to work as a catalyst for change.
Cat/Pig category families were desperate to change their status from the last two categories to the first category.
Different IEC activities
This process got lot of impetus with the participation of kids.
The team went to village schools to talk about the sanitation and later the same kids became a party to this whole campaign by participating in rally as well as participating in different other IEC activities.
Different IEC activities
As a part of IEC activities wall writing was organized in all the villages where these triggering activities were conducted. The slogans were either in Santhali or in colloquial Hindi so that the message reaches to the stakeholders.
It was followed by street theatres and other IEC tools to give impetus to the movement and promoting healthy habits.
Basket-IEC activities
IEC Tools DiscriptionChakmakati Gari Door Rahe Bimari
Message on local transport (Rikshaw, TSR, Bus etc.)
Jamghat Weekly Village Haat Meeting
Namaskar Door to door visit
Ghoomti Pradarshini
Mobile van with video display component
Street theatre Skits and drama in villages and other locations
Jyoti Juloos Candle procession by children
Munaadi Verbal announcement with drums
Jankari A written quiz on FAQs about Sanitation & Hygiene issues
Wall Painting Participatory wall-writing in villages
Cultural/ religious gathering
Campaign in big crowd
Folk dances Tradition media intervention at construction sites
Community Monitoring
Once all the toilets were constructed the village chieftain called another meeting to impress upon the villagers to start using the toilet religiously.
To ensure that defecation in the open is being stopped, community took thing in its own hand by forming watch committee.
Success Achieved
This whole exercise made a remarkable impact and created a buzz in the district.
In this whole period the three villages, Asanbani, Amlagarhi and Rajbandh achieved Open Defecation Free environment.
Challenges faced• Defecation in the open was a norm and there was
hardly any home, which was having even a makeshift toilet. It required lot of patience and empathy to engage the villagers in any sort of discussion.
• The accessibility was also a problem. • It was difficult to get hold of people in the daytime
because everyone was out in the forest for getting wood or other forest materials. The team started to visit the village early in the morning. For the villagers it was also easy because their day start very early.
Learning
• With perseverance we can win the trust of the community.
• With the help of community many remarkable change can be brought in the life of people living at the margin of the process of development.
• It was observed that the whole effort got a new boost when the villagers were informed that the team of Global Sanitation Fund will visit there village to inspect the use of toilet and if satisfied the village would be declared open defecation free.
Learning
Work together with participatory approach will lead to success.
