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MARI-GTF Project Annual Report 2009-2010
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CONTENTS
1. Executive Summary : 04
2. Key objectives & achievements of GTF project : 05
3. Village level Awareness Programs : 07
4. Capacity building Activities : 08
5. Linkage building with other stakeholders : 14
6. Mobilizing community for responsive and accountable governance:15
7. Monitoring visit to Project area : 21
8. Information dissemination on WASH : 21
9. Details of quantitative achievement : 22
10. Log-frame changes : 23
11. Emerging impact on governance and transparency : 23
12. Success Stories : 24
13. Cross-cutting issues : 28
14. Progress towards sustainability : 28
15. Learning from GTF : 29
16. Material created : 30
17. Additional reflections : 31
18. Annexes : 31
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ABBREVIATIONS
AMC - Academic Monitoring Committees
ASM - Aakarapu Sharath Chandrika Devi Memorial
CAR - Capability, Accountability & Responsibility
CBOs - Community Based Organizations
CSOs - Civil Society Organizations
DFID - Department for International Development
GP - Gram Panchayat
GTF - Governance Transparency Fund
GV - Gram Vikas
IAS - Indian Administration services
ITDA - Integrated Tribal Development Agency
MARI - Modern Architects for Rural India
Mdl - Mandal
MLA - Member of Legislature Assembly
MP - Member of Parliament
MPDO - Mandal Praja Parishad Development Office
MPTC - Mandal Praja Parishad Territorial Council
NA - Not Applicable
NGO - Non Governmental Organization
NGP - Nirmal Grama Puraskar
O & M - Operation and Maintenance
PRA - Participatory Rural Appraisal
PRI - Panchayat Raj Institutions
PSA - Participatory Situation Analysis
RTEA - Right to Education Act
RTI Act - Right to Information Act.
RVM - Rajiv Vidya Mission
RWS - Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
SACOSAN - South Asia Conference on Sanitation
SE - Superintendent Engineer
TSC - Total Sanitation Campaign
VWSC - Village Water & Sanitation Committee
WASH - Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
WATSAN - Water and Sanitation
WGL - Warangal
WWD - World Water Day
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ANNUAL REPORT – YEAR 2009 – 2010 MARI - WARANGAL
GTF Number
Short Title of Programme Empowerment of Tribal communities to Pressurize Governments for ensuring Good Governance with respect to providing Water and Sanitation action services
Name of Lead Institution Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI)
Start date1 1st April 2009
End date: 31st March 2010
Amount of DFID Funding:
Brief Summary of Programme: Purpose: Enhanced quality of life through improved water, sanitation and health conditions in 100 tribal and non tribal villages resulting from sustained advocacy movement of Tribal Organizations. Out comes:
1. MARI is capacitated and emerged as knowledgeable and skilled organization to influence the implementation and evaluation of WASH programmes in Warangal District and also established good linkages with other CSOs and Networks.
2. MARI is able to effectively engage in decision making
processes affecting the WASH sector in general and particularly focusing on Govt‟s commitments in different political platforms (eg. SACOSAN-III), New Guidelines of National Drinking Water Mission, etc.
3. Tribals and women‟s organizations are effectively and
collectively demanding government‟s accountability and transparency to allocate more funds and efficient utilization of allocated finances for improved water and sanitation services.
List all countries where activities have taken or will take place
List all implementing partners in each country
Target groups- wider beneficiaries
Tribal population: 22,225 (56%) Non tribal population: 17,068 (44%) Total target population: 39,293
Lead Contact Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI), # 1-8-499, Behind Ekasila Park, Balasamudram Hanamkonda, Warangal (Dt) – 506 001, A.P, INDIA Phone: 0870-2552928 Email: [email protected]
Person who prepared this report (if different from Lead Contact)
Mr. P. Raja Mohan Reddy, Project Manager – GTF, MARI.
1 Date your grant agreement was signed.
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1. Executive Summary During the reporting period (April 2009 – March 2010), interventions of MARI under GTF
project in two mandals (Tadvai and Gudur) of Warangal district in southern Indian state
of Andhra Pradesh focussed on many advocacy related aspects with the government
and service providers on WATSAN issues. It started with identifying advocacy issues in
the intervening villages and moved towards advocacy plan and action to ensure
improved WATSAN services for the poor and marginalised tribal population. To identify
advocacy issues, MARI adopted participatory approach. This approach was carried
through Participatory Situational Analysis and village level citizen‟s audit of WATSAN
services. Efforts were made to ensure the participation of the community especially the
marginalised groups of people in the intervening villages. Similar participatory exercises
and approach has been adopted in conducting village level awareness programmes.
Apart from this, capacity building interventions have been seen as a tool to bring
changes and ensure participation of people in strengthening and ensuring WATSAN
services. Capacity building intervention has been done at two levels – institutional and
village levels. In order to strengthen institutional capacity, many programmes were
organised for the MARI staff and board members. On the other side, to ensure effective
implementation of the programme at the village level, intensive capacity building of
CSO‟s and VWSC members were done. In all these interventions, focus was to develop
knowledge and skills on issues related to governance and advocacy. Other interventions
focused on linkage building with line departments and government officials, mobilizing
community to pressurize the government to ensure WATSAN services, campaign and
information dissemination. Linkage building with the line department helped MARI and
CSO‟s to understand the functioning of the government, accessing and analysing
government data and provide inputs on the status of villages for evidence based
advocacy. Social audit of school water supply and sanitation and public hearing is one of
the best examples of community mobilization that demanded government‟s intervention
to ensure WATSAN services for the poor. Apart from these, efforts were made to file
applications under RTI and avail government related data. The data thus gathered, were
then used for advocacy efforts in improving WATSAN services, strengthening
governance and building accountability of the service providers. Activities like organising
world‟s longest toilet queue has not only provided visibility of the programme but also
highlighted the collective consciousness of people‟s need for improved WATSAN
services. MARI would like to continue in the same way for the next year and also hopes
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for innovation and bringing in more successful case studies towards good governance,
participation and accountability of WATSAN issues in intervening villages.
Key issues WATSAN service related issues in the project location:
• Poor or no sanitation services in communities and schools.
• More than 95 per cent of the project participants especially „women‟ suffer the indignity of open defecation.
• Lack of safe and affordable water facilities.
• Unsatisfactory level of WATSAN services by the local government
• Due to inadequate funds availability at local government level WATSAN issues are
not being addressed.
• People are unaware of schemes available in WATSAN sector
• Non responsive and non accountable government in taking responsibility of the
failure in providing WATSAN services
2. Key activities and achievements of the GTF Project 2.1 Participatory situation analysis of WATSAN services
During the period 2009-10, participatory situational analysis (PSA) of WATSAN has
been carried out in two intervening
mandals - Tadvai and Gudur of
Warangal district in Andhra Pradesh in
southern India. This activity is directly
related to the outcome 2 of the project.
The main purpose of PSA is to to get
people‟s perspective on WATSAN
related services through their active
participation and assess the situation in
which people are living in. Some of the
issues that the assessment study
focused on were requirement of water, access to safe drinking water, access to
WATSAN related development schemes etc. The methodology of the assessment
study used a mix of qualitative and quantitative tools such as house hold survey (total
3753 households covered), intensive field research and conducting citizen‟s meeting.
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It identifies advocacy issues and area of interventions that includes access to safe
water to all, provision of uninterrupted or properly timed water supply in stand posts,
optimum utilization of funds allocated under various development schemes, strategy to
prevent incidences of water borne diseases among communities, awareness creation
on issues related to human and cattle induced source pollution, promoting and
advocating for participative planning and involving community level institutions for
operation and maintenance (O&M). Further, the study also highlights issue of
prevalence of open defecation and need for programme focusing on behavioral
change, 100% sanitation coverage and utilization of the Total Sanitation Campaign
(TSC) funds. It also emphasizes on the need to impress upon Gram Panchayats
(GPs) to look beyond mere toilet construction and to ensure people in adopting all
components of sanitation, including solid and liquid waste management and personal
hygiene. Findings of the report were shared to Panchayat Raj Institutions (PRI)
members and Government officials locally with a demand to act promptly to solve the
water and sanitation problems of the communities.
Achievements: Project level People‟s assessment Report identified advocacy issues
in WATSAN services are considered as one of the major achievements of
Participatory Situational Analysis process. This document also serves as good bench
mark data for the project.
2.2 Village level citizens audit reports and micro plans
Village level citizen‟s audit of WATSAN services was facilitated by MARI
representatives and other CSO‟s in all intervening villages. This activity is directly
related to the outcome 2 of the project. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), a
participatory tool has been used to assess WATSAN situation at village level. This led
to formulation of community centric micro plans in all the villages. The community
especially, women, men, PRI members, local government officials, village elders, etc.
were informed well in advance about the citizens‟ audit, in addition to the initial
informal discussions with the people. In order to seek participation of all sections of
society in the process of PRA, date and time of PRA was also fixed with community
consultation. There was a good response from the communities; especially from the
womenfolk. Community based organizations (CSOs) took lead role in identifying the
water and sanitation issues and also in developing micro plans. These reports
submitted to all the Gram Panchayats, Mandal offices and Rural Water Supply
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department for reflection and necessary action to improve the WATSAN situation in
the villages (Annexes – 3).
Achievements: Citizen‟s audit too served the purpose of identifying key issues
related to WATSAN and facilitated the process of formulation of micro plans with
people‟s participation. These reports were shared with the government officials from
district to mandal and then to the village level. The process helped government
functionaries to address actual and local needs of the community. Village wise
people‟s assessment reports for 109 villages, serve as good bench mark data for the
project.
3. Village level Awareness Programs 3.1 Village level awareness programs on WASH
MARI facilitated awareness programs on WASH issues in all the project villages with
an objective of creating an aggregated and sustained peoples pressure for good
“Governance and Accountability” in
WASH Sector. The activity relates to
outcome 3 of the project. These
programs laid the grounds for MARI
to build good rapport with the local
people, CSOs, local community
leaders, politicians, government
employees, etc. and to take the
project further in to the villages with
more support of the community. To
conduct awareness programs in the
villages, mechanisms such as informal gatherings, focused group discussions with
women, informal interactions with villages, common meeting etc. were adopted. These
meetings, at a later stage, helped MARI to identify good leaders and form Village
Water and Sanitation Committee (VWSC) in the villages. Communities were oriented
on the role of MARI as facilitating agency to improve WATSAN services, the GTF
project and objectives, issues related to WASH and related government programs.
Achievements: Village level community awareness programs on WASH related
issues contributed in sensitizing and organizing community and local CBO's on
existing water and sanitation situations.
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4. Capacity building Activities 4.1 Strengthening Institutional Capacities: All sub activities under this activity is essential to realise outcome 1.
4.1.1 Workshops to Board members and core staff of MARI: The board members
and core staff of MARI are equipped with skills, knowledge and experience in line with
the development of the community. The objective of the workshop was to utilize their
expertise for successful
implementation of the GTF project. It
was organised to discuss core
strategy to implement the program,
roles & responsibilities of staff and
exploring mechanism to monitor and
evaluate the program at the field
level. MARI organized two
workshops with Board members and
core staff (8 board members and
130 MARI staff) to share project
objectives and performances and to
get the views from the board and experienced staff. These workshops critically reflected
the government policies, programmes with specific reference to WASH, project log-
frame and implementation strategies. The out comes of the program were documented.
Achievements: It was realized by MARI‟s staff and board members that to eradicate
poverty, working on larger governance issues are important. GTF project provides such
opportunities and so it was agreed to introduce the strategies that GTF project has
envisaged in all the projects wherever possible.
4.1.2 Staff recruitment and capacity building
Fifteen project staff was appointed and imparted training on different aspects of the
project and issues of WATSAN. These people were trained on the concept of GTF
project, WATSAN sector issues, outcomes, project implementation strategies, legal
rights and advocacy and the way to use RTI Act 2005. . An exposure visit to Model
village “Gangadevipalli” was also organized apart form conducting social audits of school
sanitation and providing water facilities and writing case studies. Another part of this
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project was to work in a team with
improved administration system of MARI
both in finance and human resources.
Achievements: Orientation about GTF
project to new staff helped them to
develop a nuanced understanding of GTF
project, implementation strategies and
WATSAN related services. It has enabled
the staff to have hand full of skills and
knowledge on different approaches of
community driven development that could be applied for effective functioning and
management of the programme.
4.1.3 Staff monthly review and planning meetings
Monthly reviews with the staff helped in evaluating the activities that were done in the
previous month and work out the action plan for the coming month. The meeting also
solved the purpose of reviewing budget and prepare a time plan for the coming month.
Staff came prepared for the meeting
with narrative report and details of
planned activities of the month,
completed activities and lessons
learned. Once the presentations are
given by each staff, the team
collectively gives feed back to one
another, and suggests improvements,
if required. MARI management
members also join for the review
meeting and give their comments and
suggestions for better implementation
of the project in the field areas. After the review, the team works out an action plan for
the following month, keeping the annual and quarterly plans and targets in mind. Based
the targets set for the quarter, the activity plan for the month is worked out. All these
discussions and suggestions are properly documented in the staff monthly review
register for verification and reflection.
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Achievements: Monthly meetings helped program implementers to look into the out
comes of the project and to assess the progress against achieved targets versus
planned targets and effective utilization of human and financial resources.
4.1.4 Staff annual reflections cum next year planning meeting
In the month of March 2010, the GTF staff had annual reflection cum planning meeting
for the coming year at Gram Vikas,
Orissa for three days. For this
meeting, each staff member were
asked to reflect on the achievements
and challenges in the first year of
project implementation. The team
came prepared with presentation
with lessons learned. After the
presentations, the project manager
shared the activity plan for the
second year with the team. The staff
reiterated their commitment towards the realization of project out comes with renewed
spirit and energy. In order to further enhance the knowledge and experience on water
and sanitation issues and strategies, the staff exposed to Gram Vikas‟s project villages,
where people are enjoying qualitative WATSAN services on sustainable basis.
Achievements: GTF staff was able to assess previous programs and plan for the next
year implementation strategies more effectively with an objective of continuous in
empowering the communities to demand improved water and sanitation facilities from
the government. A shared learning dialogue was initiated that included self reflection and
focusing on critical areas of intervention.
4.1.5 Monitoring by staff and senior management of MARI
The senior management of MARI visited intervening villages
under GTF project. Participatory monitoring tools like
interacting with villagers, focused group discussions with
VWSCs were adopted to understand and assess the ground
realities. While program activity is going on in the village,
visits were made to the villages and discussed with the
people and staff on how the resources are used like money, IEC materials. These visits
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also assessed staff performances. The books of accounts and village records were
checked to understand the process. All these monitoring visits helped in utilizing the
project resources efficiently and effectively.
Achievements: This has helped in checking
whether program implementation is going on
in a right direction. The management was
good enough to understand the field realities
and extended qualitative suggestions for
effective execution of the project activities.
These visits helped the GTF team to boost
their spirit and commitment.
4.2 Strengthening CBOs and village level institutions (VWSC):
All sub activities under this activity is essential to realise outcome 3.
4.2.1 Capacity building of Community Based Organizations:
To develop a strong leadership and advocacy skills of people and their organizations to
build an effective and sustained peoples‟ movement to demand the government for good
governance and accountability in WASH sector, MARI organized capacity building
training for all the community based
organizations of the project villages.
Participatory methods of training have
been followed by giving importance for
sharing, discussions and cross checking
of information. Training has been
imparted on functioning of MARI, its
project activities and outcome, issues
related to WASH sector, role of CSOs in
addressing the WASH issues, role of
government in solving the problems,
importance of RTI Act and how it is an effective tool to make the government
accountable to the citizens.
Achievements: Civil society has become more aware with their capacities being built to
demand better services from the local government. They were equipped with the skill to
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use the appropriate act and laws to demand WATSAN services from the service
providers.
4.2.2 Formation and capacity building of VWSC (Village Water and Sanitation Committee) members: To ensure sustainability to the project in the villages (at micro level), MARI acted as a
catalyst and encouraged the formation of Village Water and Sanitation Committees
(VWSC) in all the 109 project villages.
There are a total of 1030 members in
these implementing villages with an
average of 6 to 12 members in each
VWSC. Out of the total members, 555
are women (54%) and remaining 475
are men (46%). Of the total members,
there are 107 elected body members
representing Gram panchayats (Local
Self Government). After the formation
of VWSCs, MARI conducted intensive
trainings for all the VWSC members to
develop a strong leadership, advocacy and negotiation skills. Capacities of VWSC
members were built on issues related to objectives and out come of the project, CAR
framework and role of CSOs in ensuring CAR in local government, government schemes
on water and sanitation such as Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and Swajaldhara,
roles and responsibilities of VWSC members, technical know how of filing an application
under RTI. Apart from this a telephone directory consisting of mobile numbers of
Government officials, PRI members, VWSC members and project staff was also
prepared.
Achievements: Formation of local level institutions namely VWSCs and its capacity
building helped in actualizing project plans into action.
4.2.3 Exposure visits of VWSC / PRI members to Model Village – Gangadevipalli
(http://www.gangadevipalli.in/)
To enhance vision of the communities and to motivate them for collective action in
demanding improved water and sanitation facilities, MARI arranged series of exposure
visits for VWSC members to “Gangadevipalli” a model village for Good Governance, with
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special reference to ensuring better water and sanitation facilities to the people, in
Warangal district. All the VWSC, PRI and
Advisory Committee members visited this
village and interacted with the village
sarpanch, community members, PRI
members, teachers, CBOs, women, etc.
for better understanding of the process
how the village was successful in pooling
government resources (funds for water and
toilets construction), its use and
management on sustainable basis, process
adopted for sustaining community
participation, role of Gram Panchayat in
solving WATSAN issues in the village etc.
Achievements: These visits helped the VWSC members and PRI members in building
their capacities and worked towards increasing their motivational level and to develop a
long term vision for their own villages.
4.2.4 Formation and orientation of advisory committees:
MARI facilitated the formation of two mandal level advisory committees with the
membership of 13 to 15 in each committee amounting to 35 members (15 men and 20
women). The members were pooled from different civil society organizations and
professionals such as media, education, health, CSO leaders, etc. The committee
members were oriented on the GTF project and their role. They accepted to take the
responsibilities that could empower the communities in pressurizing the government for
improved water and sanitation facilities in the villages.
Achievements: These committees are clear of their purpose and they are also
prepared to extend support and guidance to the VWSCs to work on WATSAN issues.
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5 Linkage building with other stakeholders:
Sub activities under this section directly relates to Outcome 3 of the GTF project.
5.1 Community leaders representing WATSAN issues to the line departments and
PRIs.
MARI facilitated in strengthening local level institutions particularly VWSC to deal with
local water, sanitation and hygiene issues. The VWSC members were incapacitated in
developing their knowledge
base and skills for program
implementation and advocacy
strategies. MARI also made
efforts to build positive linkages
with PRIs and Government
agencies responsible for
WATSAN services and other
stakeholders particularly
government functionaries from
local to district level. The main
objective of this effort is to
bridge the gap between the government functionaries and active community leaders and
VWSC members and also legitimizing their existence and involvement in planning and
implementation of the program. Government functionaries were assured that the VWSC
would not be parallel body to the local panchayat. Instead, the institution would provide
hand holding support in implementation of the WATSAN related programme. As a result,
GPs have passed a resolution that the VWSC are identified and endorsed by Gram
Sarpanch (Annexes – 4). This process has been an outcome of MARI‟s effort in
establishing good working relationship and its credibility with the line departments with a
shared plans and objectives. During the reporting year, MARI has approached RWS
(Rural Water Supply Department.), Warangal, MDO (Mandal Development Office) and
Gram Panchayats. The Staff of RWS along with SE (Superintendent Engineer)
discussed many WATSAN issues with GTF staff and promised to extend all possible
support in improvement of water and sanitation services in the identified villages. At the
local level, the Mandal Officers, several Sarpanches and other political leaders assured
to extend the support. Involvement and participation of the government functionaries in
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implementation of GTF project was seen as an approach towards highlighting WATSAN
issues and their contribution in resolving the issue. Therefore, in most of the programs,
the officials were invited and they responded well by regularly attending these programs
and supporting it. Their involvement itself could be counted as partial success of the
project. In addition to good rapport with the officials and politicians at village and mandal
level, MARI also developed good relationships with the district level government officials
like Collector, Joint Collector, Project Officer of Rajiv Vidya Mission, RWS – SE, District
Education Officer, Project Officer of ITDA (Integrated Tribal Development Agency) and
MLAs (Member of Legislative Assembly) and MPs (Member of Parliament) representing
the constituency where the villagers are falling. All these people showed interest on
MARI‟s activities and approaches of advocacy and community development and
reiterated their full support in solving the WASH issues in the field areas of MARI.
Informal meeting and interactions of GTF staff and VWSC members with the
government functionaries helped in discussing issues and find out solution within the
system. It also helped VWSC members to file petitions and put pressure to the
concerned department to resolve WATSAN issues in their village.
Achievements: This helped in building good working relationships with the Government
officials and also provided an opportunity to MARI to have a broader understanding of
the WATSAN policies, schemes and guidelines related to the operation area.
6. Mobilizing community for responsive and accountable governance:
All sub activities under this head has been undertaken to realise outcome 3 of the
project.
6.1 Filing of applications under “Right to Information Act – 2005” – Capacity
building programs were organized by MARI for VWSCs, communities, MARI staff,
advisory committee and other CSO‟s on
technical know how of Right To information
Act, 2005, its usefulness and how this is
connected with building accountability
among the government functionaries. This
motivated them to seek information and
demand good governance from the local
government. By demanding information on
WASH related issues under “Right to
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Information Act”, efforts were made to use this constitutional provision to improve
WATSAN services. During this period, 58 RTI applications from 58 villages were filed by
VWSC members, out of 109 intervening villages.
Information was sought on water and sanitation
services that the government has provided to the
communities in the past. Out of 58 applications, 10
applications were on the demand of toilet facilities.
The information thus received were discussed and
analysed for follow up action. In this case,
information served as a tool to demand services from the local government for toilet
facilities under TSC scheme. However the case is still under consideration (see
Annexure - 5).
Achievements: The exercise contributed towards making community and government
functionaries responsible and accountable to the needs of the citizen. It also helped the
community in pressurizing the government to ensure provision of basic services as well
as plans for follow up action. Altogether it empowered the people to demand for basic
services as their right.
6.2 Advocacy Actions - Submission of petitions to concerned Government
departments: Out of 109 villages, 83 villages have submitted petitions; demanding the
government to provide drinking
water, repair of bore wells,
deepening of open wells, etc. This
can be seen as an outcome of
getting information under RTI and
using the information for demanding
services meant for the community.
Out of 83 applications, government
responded and solved the problems
in 19 villages. Now the local
government is feeling the pressure
from the people who have improved knowledge over RTI and skills on advocacy (also
see Annexure - 6).
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Achievements: As a result, the community gets a sense of empowerment and started
taking initiatives in a small way to pressurize the government departments to ensure
provision of WATSAN services.
6.3 Social audit of school sanitation and water facilities:
Holding the Governments accountable for WATSAN facilities in schools:
The Water-Aid staff of MARI have joined hands with GTF–MARI project staff and have
jointly lead a major initiative of holding govt.
accountable for abhorrent realities of WATSAN
situation in schools. This was quite an
intensive process completed in a short span of
less than two months time with active support
from all other projects staff of MARI.
Over the past three years, MARI has been
consciously making an effort to strategically
use the occasion World Water Day to highlight a particular issue of WATSAN sector with
a geographic focus on Warangal District. Through a consultation process MARI decided
to highlight the WATSAN problems of schools in the district. MARI conducted training to
staff on Social Audit and Public hearing process as tools of Advocacy action on 24th Feb
2010. A planning meeting was conducted to
carry out social audit process in 100
government high schools to assess the
WATSAN situations accordingly 24 teams were
constituted to do the exercise in school with the
involvement of local community leaders,
teachers, parents and students in the
respective schools.
A team of 5-6 trained members visited each of the selected village and conducted social
audit which essentially involved physical verification of the situations in schools, focused
group discussion with students, adolescent girls, opinion survey involving 20 parents of
school students and an affidavit from the village elders including the members of gram
panchayats. A total of 100 government high schools from 42 out of 50 mandals of
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Warangal District were covered as the childrens of the poor and weaker sections and
constitute the majority of the students studying in government schools. GTF Project staff
has conducted this social audit exercise in 28 schools covering 8 mandals. The
observations were systematically documented along
with the pictures of the actual physical situation in
schools under the Right to Information Act an
application was filed and collected the information
from the District Educational Officer (Annexes - 7)
about the WATSAN facilities that exist in 5400
schools of the district. From the information the
schools covered under MARI social audit process
were (only 91 could be identified and rest were missing in government list of schools)
identified and the official information was compared with field data and analysis of the
same gave following findings.
Status as per the information
collected under RTI Act
Social Audit
findings
No. of schools with facility / total schools
1) Schools with drinking water facility 91 / 91 51 / 100
2) Schools with sanitation block or toilets 72 / 91 62 / 100
3) How many of the constructed toilets
are actually in use
17 / 72 / 91 *13 / 62 / 100
*Out of these 13, 4 are used only by teachers and no access to students
4) Separated toilets block for Girls 13* / 91 *16 / 100
*But less than 5 were in actual use
26 % of the adolescent girls expressed that
they are trying to be at home during
menstruation as there are no facilities in
schools.
21 % of the adolescent girls reported that they
are using proper sanitary napkins.
All most all the students expressed that there
is no proper hand washing platform in the schools while about 20 % responded
that they have knowledge of proper hand washing practice.
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None of the schools have any record of water quality testing done for the drinking
water source of the school.
In case of water crisis in many GPs the supply of water to schools is cut off to
save water for household supply.
Academic monitoring committees have absolutely no focus on the WATSAN
situation in schools.
On 22nd March 2010 commemorating the World Water Day MARI organised a public
meeting or Annual citizens
platform meeting for which a
representative group of students,
parents, teachers, Gram
Panchayat members, MLA, MP
and other village elders were
invited. Followed by the World‟s
Longest Toilet Queue formation a
public meeting was held in which
the social audit findings were
shared in the form of a report
and also by the students.
The plight of WATSAN
situation of government high
schools was very well
highlighted in the public
meeting which was attended
by about 1000 people and the
dignitaries present were the
Member of Parliament, Local
lady MLA, Project Officer of
Rajiv Vidya Mission, The
chief Editor of Andhrajyothi
(a leading Telugu Newspaper in AP), Mr. Depinder singh kapur, National Coordinator –
WASH forum and Mr. Meenakshisundaram - Trustee WASH forum; Senior IAS (Retd).
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The Member of Parliament gave a call for responsible and committed action from the
government agencies. The lady MLA representing a tribal constituency was shocked to
know the status of realities and promised to
raise the issue in the Legislature Assembly.
Print and electronic media gave a good
coverage to the issue. Mr.K. Srinivas, the
editor of Andhrajyothy began paying attention
to WATSAN issues and incidentally many
news papers carried series of stories from 24th
March onwards 2010 about the drinking water
problems in Warangal district (See enclosed
annexure – 8 & 9)
Follow up: The entire process generated admirable learning for MARI in terms of
holding the governments accountable through a systematic process and reliable data for
evidence based advocacy. In future, MARI would like to follow up with the District
Education Officer, District Collector, Superintending Engineer (RWS), Mandal
Development Officers and concerned State officials to pressurise for concrete action to
improve the situation. The recent Right to Education Act (RTEA) would give further
momentum to our efforts. This is more so as the focus of the government is on the
schools used by poor dalits and tribal families. WATSAN issues could be put as central
agenda for these schools.
Achievements: Social audit and public
hearing succeeded in unveiling the key
sanitation and water issues in the schools.
The evidence based advocacy brought the
issue to the mainstream by bringing it to the
notice of the concerned government
departments, officials and policy makers for
necessary improvements in school sanitation
and water facilities. These efforts will ensure quality of education to the children in rural
areas.
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7. Monitoring visit to project area:
Mr. Papa & Ms. Kolleen, from WaterAid, FAN
- UK visited the project area and interacted
with the people and the VWSC members very
closely. It was great learning experience that
helped in analyzing of the status of WATSAN
services in intervening villages and the
problems of people. It was clearly noticed that
the failure of local government in taking
responsibility for providing improved water
and sanitation services to the tribal areas of
Warangal District, is the cause for poor water and sanitation facilities in the intervening
villages.
8. Information dissemination on WASH:
Activities under this head do not fall into any specific outcome as all these reports /
documents are part of the above activities.
8.1 Reports – Following is the list of reports: Participatory situational analysis and preparation of a people’s assessment report on
WATSAN status – The document is an outcome of the participatory situation analysis
of WATSAN services.
Comprehensive analysis of policies and programmes of Government of India and
State Government of AP with respect to WATSAN: A resource kit: This document
analyses the programs, polices and various schemes of government of India and
Andhra Pradesh. Apart from analysing the advocacy issues, the document also
investigates the allocation and utilisation of budgets and the gaps thereof using the
secondary information. The document has been prepared with an objective to bring
out WATSAN advocacy issues in Andhra Pradesh with a focus on areas on which
capacity building of CSOs, CBOs and VWSCs could be done.
8.2 Documentation:
All the training programmes and modules are documented for the project purpose.
Regular subscription of the journals such as Legal News and Views, Social Welfare and
Health Action was obtained.
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Other documents:
The following documents are downloaded from different websites in order to build the
documentation centre for water and sanitation issues. The lists of such documents are
given below:
Climbing the Water Ladder – Multiple–use water services for poverty reduction. Evaluating and Improving the WASH sector. Sanitation: a wise investment for health, dignity and development. Water supply and sanitation working notes. Sanitation and water supply Sanitation for All – Still a long way to go Water and Sanitation – PERSPECTIVE Beyond construction – Use by all.
9. Details of quantitative achievements of the above mentioned activities:
# Name of the Activity /
Training Project Targets
Achieved Targets
Male Female Total
1.0 Identifying WATSAN issues in intervening villages
1.1
Participatory situation analysis of WATSAN situation in villages and house hold survey
100 109 40 % of the house holds
1.2 Citizens audit (PRA) & Micro Plans
100 109 700 4600 5300
2.0 Awareness Building on issues related to WASH to many groups at various levels
2.1 Village level awareness programs.
100 109 1557 3256 4813
3.0 Capacity building on WASH related issues
3.1 Strengthening Institutional Capacities
3.1.1 Workshops to Board members and core staff of MARI
1 2 98 39 + 1
(3rd Gender)
138
3.1.2 Staff recruitment and capacity building
5 5 11 4 15
3.1.3
Staff monthly review and planning meetings Staff annual reflections cum next year planning meeting
13 13 11 4 15
3.1.4 Monitoring by staff and senior management of MARI
2 2 11 4 15
3.2 Strengthening CBOs and village level institutions (VWSC)
3.2.1 Formation and strengthening of VWSC/CBOs
35 35 475 555 1030
3.2.2 Exposure visits to VWSC / 8 11 523 638 1161
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PRI / CBO / Caste leaders to “Gangadevipalli”
3.2.3 Formation and orientation of advisory committees
2 2 15 20 35
4.0 Linkage building with other stakeholders
4.1 Interaction with line departments and PRI members
4 Departments (GP, MDOs,
RWS, Collectorate)
4 Not Applicable
5.0 Mobilizing community for responsive and accountable governance
5.1 Filling of applications under “Right to Information Act – 2005”
50 58 Not Applicable
5.2
Advocacy Actions -Submission of petitions to concerned Government departments to improve WATSAN services
50 83 Not Applicable
5.3 Social Audit of School sanitation and Water facilities
100 100 Not Applicable
6.0 Campaign
6.1 Annual citizen platform meeting (World water day and Toilet Queue)
1000 participants
1060 Adults:
853 Children:
207 1060
7.0 Information Dissemination (Reports)
7.1 Village level citizens audit report & micro-plans
100 109 Not Applicable
7.2 People assessment report (House hold report)
1 1 Not Applicable
7.3 Compilation and analysis of policies and programmes
1 1 Not Applicable
10. Log-frame Changes Project activities are based on the same log Frame submitted earlier. There are no
changes in the log frame (Annexes – 10).
11. Emerging impact on governance and transparency
The issue of impact on governance and transparency is narrated below through
successful case studies. These case studies narrate how the capability, accountability
and responsiveness of local community and the government have started improving
gradually.
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12. Success Story:
1. Active Citizens pressurizes local government to improve WATSAN services
A R Thanda a tribal hamlet of Apparajupalli gram panchayat of Gudur mandal in
Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh in southern India located at a distance of 75 kms from
Warangal town and 5 kms from Mandal head quarter Gudur. 54 tribal families inhabit the
village of which 21. 95 per cent live
below poverty line. The village does not
have access to road, public transport,
water and sanitation and health facilities.
Agriculture is the main livelihood with 40
per cent population being small and
marginal farmers and remaining 60 per
cent are landless labourers. The literacy
level is only 30 percent.
Interactions with the villages, house hold
data and PRA exercises revealed that every
year people especially children fall sick due
to poor water and sanitation facilities in the
village. There are 3 hand pumps and one
open well which supplies drinking water to
the village. Each family is assured of water
through direct pumping system and there are no stoppers in the tap. Poor drainage
facility leads to water stagnation every where in the village especially in front the houses
and hence there is a very poor management of sanitation in the villages. This has led to
contamination of drinking water and the data shows that people suffered from all sorts of
water borne diseases. Since none of the families have toilet facilities in their homes,
open defecation was a common practice for everybody. Due to the poor water and
sanitation conditions in the village, people often fall sick and spend lot of money in
getting medical treatment and loss of wage work. It was noticed that, neither the people
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nor the government has bothered to improve the water and sanitation situation in the
village.
When MARI entered the village, response of the community was not very positive.
People did not have good opinions about NGOs. Working in this Mandal was also new
for MARI because no other development initiatives had been facilitated by MARI in this
Mandal. MARI entered in this village
with GTF project in the year 2009, with
an objective of empowering the
communities to demand improved
water and sanitation facilities from the
government. After assessing the
WATSAN situation in the village, series
of awareness and capacity building
programs and exposure visits were
organised for CBO members and local
leaders. Further, interactive sessions were conducted between PRI members, Govt
officials, Villagers. MARI formed the WATSAN committee with gender balance. The
inputs that MARI delivered to the people motivated the villagers who started organising
community efforts to solve the water and sanitation problems collectively. After visiting
the village “Gangadevipalli”, villagers discussed the WATSAN issues and prioritised the
problems. People took the help of MARI in discussing and analysing the problems of the
community and also developing advocacy plans for their village. Community submitted a
petition to local Gram Panchayat to repair internal roads which are having several water
stagnation points in front of many houses. People collectively discussed this issue and
pressurised the local government to sanction 8 to 10 tractor loads of gravel to repair their
roads. The local sarpanch realised the need of the people and within couple of days
gram panchayat sanctioned the required number of tractor load of gravel. People
contributed voluntary labour to unload the gravel from the tractors and then the gravels
were spread near water stagnation points.
After a week, once again the community came together and discussed the wastage of
water caused due to direct water pumping system. Usually when ever the electricity
supply is there in the village, the water is pumped directly to the houses every day. Since
none of the water delivery points have taps, lot of water was being wasted and it used to
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impound on the roads all over the village. To ameliorate the existing situation, village
VWSC committee discussed the issue with the villagers and submitted an application to
Gram Panchayat to sanction the water taps for each house. The concerned officer from
gram panchayat made a visit to the village to discuss this with the VWSC members and
people. People explained the problem very clearly to the officer who sanctioned the
required number of taps for the village. Now water wastage is completely checked. The
improvement is in terms of paved road with water being stagnant in the village. Looking
at the initial success, people submitted application to Gram Panchayat, Mandal office
and District Water Supply office for construction of toilets for each house. Villagers are
assuring all help and participation in toilet building programme. People are waiting for
the approval so that individual toilet construction can then start. This case shows that
building capacity of the people and collectives leads to a positive change.
Success story:
2. Opportunities Harnessed: Villages gets permanent water tanks
The villages Elbaka and Padigapur in Tadvai mandal, Warangal district are facing
severe shortage of drinking water for the past several years. This area is famous for the
fair in the honour of the local goddess Medaram “Sammakka and Saralamma”. Once in
two years, the tribal in the area celebrate this festival in a grand way with around 7 to 8
million people visiting the village from all over India. To organize this festival,
government spends millions of rupees in ensuring water and sanitation facilities on
temporary basis for the pilgrims. Once the festival is over, the surrounding villages
(including Elbaka and Padigapur) suffer from problems of poor sanitation and shortage
drinking water. The problem is that the local government do not put sufficient efforts to
solve the problems permanently and the people too do not think of pressurizing the
government collectively to solve the problems they face.
MARI has been working in this area for a decade on several development issues and
therefore when the village was chosen for GTF project, MARI representative didn‟t face
much problem in its intervention. The project started with the process of empowering
communities to demand better governance to improve the water and sanitation facilities
in the villages. The project in these two villages started from April 2009. In the month of
January 2010, when the festival was nearing, government planned for temporary water
and sanitation facilities for the pilgrims. Government sanctioned funds to construct a
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temporary water tank between the villages of Elbaka and Padigapur. The issue came to
the notice of the both the villagers. The villagers saw an opportunity and came together
immediately to opposed the decision of government for construction of temporary water
tank. They approached the authorities and pressurised them to construct permanent
water tank . They threatened that otherwise community would not allow the government
to take up any temporary work around their villages. The government discussed the
issues with the people and sanctioned Rs. 12,00,000 for the constitution of the tank that
has the capacity of 50,000 litters. This permanent tank will benefit of both the villages.
Looking at the initial success, now people are pressuring the government to sanction
individual tap connections for each house in the village.
12. A. Voices of People:
1. I appreciate MARI organization for working in remote tribal
villages and creating awareness on WATSAN issues. People
need to come forward transform the villages into a MODEL
villages with the support of MARI, Government officials and PRI
members.
-Mr. Tavva Jayapal (MPTC), Apparajupally. Gudur (Mdl), Warangal.
2. We don‟t know about the RTI Act-2005, but after participating in the VWSC
members training program we got a clear idea on RTI Act-2005. We are seeking
information water facilities provided by government in my village, from mandal
development office through RTI. Now, we demand the government to solve our
drinking water and sanitation problems.
- Samba Swamy (Youth Leader), AR Thanda, Gudur (Mdl), Warangal.
3. Previously the gram panchayat or mandal office took several weeks to repair the
hand pump and people also did not pressurize the government.
But now people pressurize the gram panchayat and getting
succeed in rectifying the problems of Hand pumps with in couple
of days. Thanks to MARI for its wonderful programs in our area.
- Ms. Bokkala Ellamma (VWSC member), Chintal, Gudur (Mdl), Warangal.
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13. Cross-cutting issues
MARI believes in gender equity and has been reflected in the implementation strategy of
the programme. In the project, issues of gender equity has been addressed from the
planning to the implementation of the
project, Women‟s participation in
decision making and in
implementation of the project is
remarkable. The best example is 54%
of representation of active women in
village water and sanitation
committees in 109 intervening villages.
Out of total membership of 1030,
women representatives are
outnumbering men (555 women while
475 men are in the committees). Further, it has been noticed that women are playing
active role in advocacy actions. They are courageously approaching government officials
and started holding the government accountable for poor status of WATSAN conditions
in the intervening villages.
14. Progress towards sustainability
MARI has made efforts to ensure sustainability of the project right from the beginning.
The sustainability of the project is possible, when communities take active role in project
planning, implementation and monitoring of the project activities in their respective
villages. Under Panchayat Raj Act - Article 40, people have legitimate right to form
adhoc committees on finding solutions to their problems with the consultation of Gram
Panchayat. As discussed before, there are 1030 members in the VWSCs representing
109 villages. About 95 per cent of the members represent marginalised sections of the
village society. These members are encouraged to conduct monthly meetings in all the
villages to monitor activities and assess new demands. In coming years, effort will be
made to institutionalise this effort in forming rules and regulations of the committee and
registering VWSCs under the AP societies registration act 35/2001. The VWSC
committees are trained to advocate their issues and approach the government to solve
them. Since the groups are accessing the implementation of the government schemes,
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GTF project‟s investment is going in building unity, organizing collective actions,
empowering the people etc. This process itself will make the organisation sustainable as
once the people know how to work and demand basic services, external agency‟s role
will be minimal. In this process MARI is educating the communities on the importance of
“Right to Information Act – 2005” through which they can seek and demand information
of the different development programs from the government. This information itself is a
resource which helps the people in assessing the situation and understanding the status
of a particular developmental scheme. People are gradually realising the importance of it
and started using the RTI Act. Once people develop confidence over the RTI and its
benefits, they can take the role of MARI and demand the government for better
realization of CAR framework in the government systems. Therefore MARI is confident
that even after the GTF funding comes to an end, the project will be managed and run
by the VWSCs members very successfully. Apart from this, MARI is seriously thinking of
mobilising community corpus fund from the people to support for village wise advocacy
actions in future.
15. Learning from GTF
Sensitizing and developing understanding among the tribal community is
essential to make them feel assertive about their rights and entitlements.
The project needs lot of information about the inside functioning of the concerned
government departments and therefore it needed strategic planning to
understand the same before beginning to question or confront the government.
Governance and transparency issues in the WATSAN sector are possible only
when people demand for high quality services. Demanding for their right was
beyond the imagination of the local tribal community who has experienced years
of domination and subordination. Exposure to one of the model villages made
them realized what they are lacking and how they can demand for basic services
from the government.
Media sensitization and regular news on WATSAN issues generates conducive
environment for project implementation.
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Though local tribal Gram Panchayats are suppose to provide WATSAN services,
their capacities and resources are very low. Hence there is a need to work with
them rather than simply mobilizing people to question or demand for services.
Main highlights of the GTF project interventions:
• Established good working relationships with PRI members, i.e. GPs, MPDOs,
MLAs, MPs and effective linkages with line departments.
• CSOs accepted and appreciated the concept of GTF project and they are very
actively participating and taking forward the project.
• 109 VWSCs in 109 villages formed and capacitated to manage the functioning of
the VWSCs and began to act locally to improve the WATSAN situations in the
villages.
• Gender balance in the project has been remarkable. Importance is given to
women‟s perspectives and their participation in taking the project forward.
• Media was effectively sensitized as result of it regularly our actions are published
in local print media.
16. Materials Created
Please provide a list of any materials you have created with GTF funds this year.
Please also send any press releases, media clipping or other relevant
documentation. Please also send us these materials.
Material Created (April 2009 to March 2010)
Item Title or description of material Access web site (if any)
1. WATSAN resource kit – 2009-2010 No
2. Participatory Situational Analysis and preparation of Peoples assessment report
No
3.
Training program modules 1. Village level awareness programs on WATSAN issues. 2. Capacity building of staff on Advocacy strategies. 3. Capacity building of VWSC members on WATSAN issues
and RTI
No
4. GOs related to PRI No
5. Social Audit Report – On school sanitation and Water facilities No
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17. Additional Reflections What additional advocacy skills or training do you think would help you be more effective in your GTF work? For the year 2010-2011 MARI requires training programs on the following areas:
M & E System with special reference to GTF
Budget analysis
Writing case studies and documentation skills.
In depth analysis of State programs, policies and guidelines.
18. Annexes 1. Financial analysis 2. Details of activities and outcome number 1, 2, 3 under the project 3. Village Map (PRA) 4. GP Resolution 5. RTI applications submitted by people 6. Advocacy actions – petitions submitted by people 7. RTI application (DEO) 8 & 9. Media clippings 10. Log-frame
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1. Financial Analysis:
Outcome Activity Units
Planned Units
Achieved Amount
Available Amount Spent
% of Utilization
1
Workshop to Board members and Core staff
1 2 50000 41645 83.29
Staff Capacity building Trainings
Training on GTF project & MARI.
Training on WASH
Training on Drawing up “Advocacy Action Plans” on WATSAN issues.
Advocacy Strategy & Team Working.
Social Audit of School Sanitation and water
5 5 100000 102058 102
Regular process of collecting & systematic organizing the material related to WASH sector
3 3 30000 29880 99.6
2
Field level research and coming out with reports dominated by real peoples perspectives.
100 109 150000 149589 99.72
Independent research by the professionals within the organization with the help of external consultants
1 0 50000 0 0
Annual Citizens platform Meeting 1 1 200000 220000 110
3
Awareness programs to create an aggregate and sustained peoples pressure for good „Governance and Accountability in WASH sector‟.
100 109 100000 101193 101.1
Training Programs to Community & Committee
CBOs Training
GP-VWSC Trainings
VWSC Trainings
2 days training to WATSAN members
VWSC Exposure visit to Gangadevipalli
PRI members exposure visit to Gangadevipalli
45 48 562500 562150 99.9
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Social Audit Process (Eg. Public Hearing, Public interest litigation, Mass protest action, Campaign etc.)
100 100 100000 110000 110
Salaries including Fixed Travel Allowances
Staff salaries and MARI-CF Salary
12 12 1557000 1413791 90.8
Running Costs
Cost sharing of 4 wheeler 1 1 480000 480000 100%
Furniture & Equipment 1 1 100000 99988 99.9
Office Running Cost (Rent, Stationary, Communication etc.)
12 12 172500 189439 109.8
Publications /Conferences
Participatory situational analysis and preparation of a peoples assessment report on WATSAN status
2 2 73000 72576 99.4
Compilation and analysis of policies and programmes of Govt. of India and state Govt. of AP with respect to WATSAN.
2 2 73000 59110 80.9
Consolidated documentation of the 1st year project achievements and learning‟s.
1 0 36500 0 0
Monitoring and Evaluation
Developing project specific documentation, reporting and monitoring systems
1 0 38000 0 0
Staff training on M & E systems, reporting and documentation skills
1 0 25000 5699 22.7
Developing the concept of joint stakeholder review of project and implementation of the same at community level
1 0 90000 0 0
Records, Documents & Visual Documentation
1 1 47500 38216 80.4
Staff Review meetings at cluster & Project level
1 1 55000 56171 102.1
Travel expenses related to monitoring by staff and senior management of MARI
2 2 42000 45552 108.4
Staff annual reflection cum next year planning meeting
1 1 17000 10354 60.9
Total 395 412 4149000 3787411 91.28
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2. Details of activities and outcome number 1, 2, 3 under the project
Activities Outcome 1 Outcome 2 Outcome 3
MARI is capacitated and emerged as knowledgeable and skilled organization to influence the implementation and evaluation of WASH programmes in Warangal District and also established good linkages with other CSOs and Networks.
MARI is able to effectively engage in decision making processes affecting the WASH sector in general and particularly focusing on Govt‟s commitments in different political platforms (eg. SACOSAN-III), New Guidelines of National Drinking Water Mission, etc.
Tribals and women‟s organizations are effectively and collectively demanding government‟s accountability and transparency to allocate more funds and efficient utilization of allocated finances for improved water and sanitation services.
I. Identifying WATSAN issues in intervening villages
I.I Participatory situation analysis of WATSAN situation in villages, house hold survey and report
Outcome 2
I.II Citizens audit (PRA) & Micro Plans Outcome 2
II. Awareness Building on issues related to WASH to many groups at various levels
II.I Village level awareness programs. Outcome 3
III. Capacity building on WASH related issues
III.I Strengthening Institutional Capacities
Out come 1
a. Workshops to Board members and core staff of MARI
Out come 1
b. Staff recruitment and capacity building
Out come 1
c. Staff monthly review and planning meetings Staff annual reflections cum next year planning meeting
Out come 1
d. Monitoring by staff and senior management of MARI
Out come 1
III.II Strengthening CBOs and village level institutions (VWSC)
Out come 3
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a. Formation and strengthening of VWSC
Outcome 3
b. Exposure visits to VWSC / PRI / CBO / Caste leaders to “Gangadevipalli”
Outcome 3
c. Formation and orientation of advisory committees
Outcome 3
IV. Linkage building with other stakeholders
IV.I Interaction with line departments and PRI members
Outcome 3
V. Mobilizing community for responsive and accountable governance
Outcome 3
V.I Filling of applications under “Right to Information Act – 2005”
Outcome 3
V.II Submission of Advocacy petitions to concerned Government departments to improve WATSAN services
Outcome 3
V.III Social Audit of School sanitation and Water facilities
Outcome 3
VI. Campaign Outcome 2
VI.I World water day and Toilet Queue Outcome 2
VII. Information Dissemination This is a part of the activities mentioned above so no need to detail out its outcome.
VII.I Publication Participatory situational analysis and preparation of a peoples assessment report on WATSAN status. Compilation and analysis of policies and programmes of Govt.of India and State Govt of AP with respect to WATSAN including allocation and utilization of Budgets
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3. Village Map (PRA Process) Village Name – Projectnagar, District - Warangal
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4. GP Resolution
GP passing the Resolution under section 40 panchayat raj act accepting VWSC as an Ad-hoc committee to work on the issues on WATSAN
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5. RTI applications submitted by people
19th Jan 2010.
RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT – 2005
To
The Public Information Officer,
Mandal Praja Parishad Officer,
Goveindraopet,
Warangal.
Respected Sir,
We Request you to provide us the following information under the RTI Act – 2005. Reg.
1. Details of no. of Toilets sanctioned and amount spent for construction ISLs
(individual sanitary toilets) in the villages of Motlagudem Grama Panchayat.
2. Details of amount spent to ensure drinking water facilities to each village fall under
Motlagudem Grama Panchayat. from the year 2005 – 2009.
Thanking you
Address:
Ms.V.Saraswathi, Muthapur village,
Member of VWSC Tapavancha (po),
9990019627 Govindaraopet(mdl),
Warangal.
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6. Advocacy actions – petitions submitted by people 25th Jan 2010.
To
The Project Officer,
Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA),
Eturnagaram,
Warangal.
Sub: Request for getting repaired of defunct hand pumps and to request for a new hand-
pump to solve the drinking problem of the village “Narsingapur” Tadvai mandal,
Warangal – Reg.
Respected Sir, This is to bring to you kind notice, We the members of VWSC (Village Water and Sanitation
committee) of Narsingapur would like to bring the drinking problem of the village for your
kind persuasion and necessary instructions to repair of the existing Hand pumps and
request your office to sanction the new bore-well with hand pump for our village.
The people are facing severe shortage of drinking water problem for the past several days
and also our livestock have similar problems. Every day the women are taking the burden of
collecting water from far away places, and spending hours to collect a pot of water.
Therefore, to solve this problem, we request you to repair of the existing defunct hand-pump
and also sanction one new bore well with hand pump to meet the water needs of the
community and as well as livestock.
Looking forward for your further action in this regards,
Thanking you,
Members of the VWSC members
Village: Narsingapur, Tadvai (Mdl)
1. Ms.Pallavi 2. Ms.R.Bali 1. Ms.L.Suseela 2. Mr.Ravindar reddy 3. Ms.P.Laxmi 4. Mr.P.Sammaiah 5. Ms.K.Komuramma
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7. RTI application (DEO)
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8 and 9: Media clippings: As a result of sensitizing media on 22-03-2010, subsequently media is high lightening local WATSAN issues frequently.
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Media clippings: GTF project related activities
Awareness Program to VWSC members on WATSAN issues
Capacity building to VWSC members on RTI Act 2005 & WATSAN issues
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VWSC members knowing about the Model village “GANGADEVIPALLI”.
Social Audit of School Water & Sanitation in 100 schools
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Submission of petitions to the Govt. officials by the VWSC members: Demanding for toilet facilities in Tadvai mandal.
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Member of Parliament flagging off the “World Longest Toilet Queue” on 22nd March 2010.
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PHOTO GALLERY OF GTF PROJECT
2009 – 201 0
Awareness Programs in GTF Project villages
Participatory Identification of WATSAN issues by villagers
Situations in Project areas
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Donor’s Visit to Project area
Staff Capacity building trainings
VWSC members Exposure visit to Model Village Gangadevipally
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PRI & Advisory Committee members Exposure visit to Model Village Gangadevipally
Interaction with Govt. Officials in Project areas
Advocacy Actions: Submission of petitions to Govt. officials by the VWSC members for Water and toilet facilities.
Tribal communities Seeking information from Govt. departments by filling RTI applications
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GTF Regional meeting - sharing & learning – Bhubaneshwar
Sri. NLN Reddy, Board member of MARI visits field areas
GTF Regional Coordinator Mr. Neelkanth, interacts with villagers
Mrs. Anasurya, MLA (Mulugu) interacts with the GTF staff @ MARI-HO, Hanamkonda.
MARI teams collect information on School water and sanitation facilities from students & community
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Status of Drinking water & Sanitation facilities in Govt. schools
World Water Day (22nd March 2010)
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9. Annexes
Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI)
Water Aid – FANSA GTF Project
Log frame
Outcomes Indicators Means of Verification Baseline Explanation Activities
1. MARI is capacitated and emerged as knowledgeable and skilled organization to influence the implementation and evaluation of WASH programmes in Warangal District and also established good linkages with other CSOs and Networks to be able to contribute to developing and implementation of effective WASH policies primarily in the State of AP and at the National level
The Board and Core staff of MARI have developed a 5 year vision and strategy of influencing WASH sector policies and implementation of programmes aiming at improving the capacity, accountability and responsiveness of the Warangal District administration and also at the State level.
Vision and strategy document adopted and operationalized by the Board of the MARI.
MARI has no such document as on date and mostly the organization has been reacting to emerging issues in the sector.
Pre-project organization analysis with Board members and Core team.
Three day workshop involving Board and Core staff and follow up consultation.
MARI has 20 professionals who have good knowledge of WASH sector realities and have skills to operationalize MARI‟s strategy of improving CAR in the WASH sector in collaboration with other CSOs part of Networks like FANSA, India WASH Forum, WATSAN, etc.
List of professionals with detailed profile of their competencies and accomplishments.
Documentary evidence of MARI‟s collaboration with other CSO Networks.
About 10 professionals in MARI have reasonable knowledge of WASH issues but comprehensive skills to influence the Govt. doesn‟t exist.
Capacity building of staff through trainings within the organization and availing outside learning opportunities including participation in the activities of other Networks.
MARI has developed an in-house documentation center with all the material related to Policies, Enactments, Sector plans and other advocacy
Resource Center within MARI with hard and soft copies of all the sector material.
Lot of time and energy is wasted on collecting the relevant material as and when MARI wants to react to sector issues. There is
Regular process of collecting and systematically organizing the material related to WASH
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Outcomes Indicators Means of Verification Baseline Explanation Activities
material essential for all the CSOs engaged in consistent vigilance and influencing of WASH sector Policies and Programmes
also dependency on other sources. Often it is experienced that lack of timely access to information is a constraint in course of working on Policy issues.
sector.
2. MARI is able to effectively engage in decision making processes affecting the WASH sector in general and particularly focusing on Govt‟s commitments in different political platforms (eg. SACOSAN-III), New Guidelines of National Drinking Water Mission, Operational guidelines of Total Sanitation Campaign Programme, Water Policies, Tribal Development Policy, Housing Programmes and Allocation & use of WASH sector Budgets.
Systematic and consistent Research and Analysis of atleast 3 major policies and programmes affecting the rural and tribal population in Warangal District and influencing the same in their favour.
Assessment reports on WASH policies and programmes and evidence material of its impact.
No policy and programme implementation reports / data available at the District level and hence the general public have no idea of the inside realities of WASH sector.
Basing on our own understanding of the situation and also basing on consultation with other sector actors we assessed the baseline situation.
Field level research and coming out with reports dominated by real peoples perspectives.
Budget analysis (demand, allocation and utilization) done atleast for 4 years at District and or AP State level.
Budget tracking and analysis reports.
No independent / citizens reports available at the District and State level particularly focusing on the budget issues of WASH sector.
Independent research by the professionals within organization with the help of external consultants.
Annual citizens meet held to offer a critical citizens feedback on implementation of WASH Policies and Programmes in Warangal District of AP.
Reports of the meetings and recommendations made to Govt. by these citizens forums.
No platforms of CSOs or concerned Citizens exists to critique the WASH sector performance and pressurize the Govt. to be more efficient and accountable.
Annual citizens platform meetings.
3. Tribals and women‟s organizations are effectively and collectively demanding
At least 100 tribal and women‟s organizations got organized with the primary agenda of improving WASH
The existence of these organizations in rural and tribal areas of Warangal District.
There are no CBOs functioning with WASH agenda. Nor the population in these
Pre-project situational analysis.
Promotion of new and or sensitization of existing peoples organizations and their
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government‟s accountability and transparency to allocate more funds and efficient utilization of allocated finances for improved water and sanitation services.
situation. Minutes and other records.
backward villages have any idea of Water & Sanitation rights, the commitments and interventions of the Govt.
federations in the above 100 villages to create an aggregated and sustained peoples pressure for good „Governance and Accountability in WASH sector‟.
Evidence of meaningful spaces and mechanisms available for tribal‟s and women‟s groups in Warangal to represent their voices and also effectively participate in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of WASH service delivery.
The official correspondence and other related documentation.
No formal space for any community based organizations in planning, monitoring and evaluation of WASH programmes. In few villages the community participation is practiced as mere tokenism.
Capacity building activities to develop strong leadership and advocacy skills of tribal and womens organizations to build an effective and sustained peoples movement for good governance and accountability in WASH sector.
Increased levels of peoples satisfaction about WASH service delivery, their role in the same and the processes through which Govt. is adhering to transparency & accountability.
Results of social audit and community feedback through methods like score card.
80% of the people are dis-satisfied about the nature of services available and there is a huge demand for better WASH services.
Regular social audit process.
Collective community action demanding for CAR of the Govt. (Eg: Public hearing, Public interest litigations, Mass protest action, Campaign, etc.)
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