Ahmedabad Sanitation Action Lab (ASAL)

USAID India Partnerships Program

Anand Rudra USAID/India

February 17, 2015

In partnership with

Government of Gujarat Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

Sintex Industries Limited Mahila Housing SEWA Trust

USAIDs India Partnerships Program Urban India Water and Sanitation for Health Alliance (Urban

WASH Alliance), supports

Ahmedabad Sanitation Action Lab (ASAL)

- ASAL is an action-research for innovating and implementing inclusive solutions to urban sanitation problems

- Municipal schools will be at the core of the intervention incorporating concepts of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

- ASAL will create child ambassadors for WASH in their homes and neighbourhoods

- ASAL a pilot in Ahmedabad will be scaled-up and replicated across Gujarat

What is Ahmedabad Sanitation Action Lab (ASAL)?

Role Organisation

Program funding

Primary donor USAID

Matching grant providers and implementation partners

Government of Gujarat

Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

Sintex Industries Ltd.

Program design, implementation, management and monitoring

Program lead Urban Management Centre

Community engagement partner Mahila Housing Trust

Scaling-up and replication

Scaling-up partner City Managers Association of Gujarat

Observers and learners

Municipal Corporation of Pune

Municipal Corporation of Indore

50 Municipalities of Gujarat

Communication and dissemination

Communication and dissemination partners

Mudra Institute of Communication

Theatre Media Centre

Problem statement

Pehle shauchalaya, phir devalaya First toilets, then temples

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India At a function organized in New Delhi for the youth, October, 2013

The need for sanitation is of utmost importance. Although the Central

Government is providing resources within its means, the task of total sanitation

cannot be achieved without the support of all. The Government intends to cover

every household by total sanitation by the year 2019, the 150th year of the Birth

anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi through Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan.

Arun Jaitley, Finance Minister of India,

Para 30, Union Budget, 2014-15

Increasing priority of government

"Clean India" campaign from 2nd October this year and carry it forward in 4 years. I want to make a beginning today itself and that is - all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls. The government should utilise its budget on providing toilets. I call upon the corporate sector also to give priority to the provision of toilets in schools with your expenditure under Corporate Social Responsibility. This target should be finished within one year with the help of state governments and on the next 15th August, we should be in a firm position to announce that there is no school in India without separate toilets for boys and girls

Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Independence Day Speech in New Delhi August 15th , 2014

PAS Project 6

Launch of Ahmedabad Sanitation Action Lab

Was launched formally by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation on 2nd Oct 2014 aligning with the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission by the Government of India

Policy, process and financial gaps

Infrastructure gaps

Communication gaps

Problem statement

Issues in policy, process and financial gaps

- Absence of convergence between various stakeholders for WASH activities stakeholders such as State Dept. of Health and Family Welfare, State Dept. of Education, State Dept. of Women and Child Development and AMC

- Absence of systems and regimes within local government no standard operating procedures for operation, maintenance & repairs of sanitation facilities, and on-site sanitation systems

- Deficiency in beneficiary contributions for availing various sanitation schemes of State and local governments

- Limited accessibility of advance governance systems (e-gov/ m-gov) to the urban poor

- Insensitivity towards gender requirements in sanitation, especially in schools

Problem statement

Issues in sanitation infrastructure provision to urban poor

- Many parts of the city are not covered by safe

drinking water - Large parts of slums do not have access to safe

sanitation facilities - Many municipal schools lack clean, maintained

and usable water provisions and toilets - Many toilets in slums are not connected to safe

waste water disposal systems - Open defecation is prevalent in the city and

manual scavenging has been reported by independent sources

- Garbage nuisance spots are spread across the city, especially in slums

Problem statement

Gaps in behaviour change communication

- Insufficient WASH activities in municipal schools - Lack of motivation in schools to adopt and

spread WASH learnings - Negligible attention towards menstrual hygiene

in municipal schools - Limited household level outreach to disseminate

WASH - Existing network of SHGs/ CBOs not utilised for

sanitation awareness - inadequate campaign by local government for

eliminating open defecation

Problem statement

Interventions proposed

ASAL will contribute to USAIDs goal CDO 3 : Development innovations impact people's lives at the base of the pyramid (BOP) in a range of sectors in India. Three pillars of sustainable WASH will be adopted to address the issues highlighted in the problem statement: i. Enabling environments ii. Behavioural change iii. Water and sanitation services

Interventions proposed

Source: http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_43084.html

ASAL will intervene in 5 slums of Ahmedabad with a wider outreach to 70 slums through schools and CBOs.

Activity No. Activity title

KA 1.00 Creating enabling environment

KA 2.00 Behaviour change

KA 3.00 Water-sanitation and health improvements

KA 4.00 Dissemination and replication

Interventions proposed

Illustrative results - Standard design manual for individual toilets,

public toilets and on-site sanitation facilities prepared and 1000 copies disseminated

- A framework for monitoring by citizens prepared for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

- Fifty elected officials sensitised on water and sanitation through training workshops

- 120 SHGs/ CBOs or citizen leaders trained on e-governance and m-governance

- 200 sanitation workers trained in following SOPs - 200 officials sensitised on WASH, convergence

between engineering and health departments - 3 standard operating procedures prepared - Review and improvements to existing municipal

administrative procedures for water-sanitation access prepared

- Gujarat WASH Alliance formed

KA 1.00: Creating enabling environment

KA 2.00: Behavioural change

KA 2.00: Behavioural change

Illustrative results Thirty percent of schools with soap and water at a hand washing station commonly used by school children - Communication strategy developed - 150 kits containing training material and

communication products developed and disseminated

- 150 municipal schools and 25,000 students reached through the sanitation campaign

- 10,000 number of school girls made aware of menstrual hygiene

- 120 of CBOs/ SHG members trained and sensitised for WASH

- 100,000 slum and slum-like community residents reached for behaviour change

KA 3.00: Water, sanitation and health improvement

KA 3.00: Water, Sanitation and Health improvement

Illustrative results - 20 schools provided with improved water

supply and improved sanitation facilities - 25,000 residents of slum and slum-like

communities provided with access to safe sanitation.

KA 4.00: Dissemination and replication

KA 4.00: Dissemination and replication

Illustrative results - 20 NGOs and institutions reached through the

national workshop - 166 cities in Gujarat reached - 400 municipal officers reached - 8 issues of e-WASH newsletter disseminated

UMC is working hands-on with municipalities in Gujarat since 2009 providing technical support

General Profile of Schools

School Name Shift of School

Medium of

Instruction

No. of students

No. of teachers PT meetings

Vasna school No. 1 Morning Guj

254 (All

Girls) 7 Yes

Vasna school No. 2

Afternoon Guj

551 (All

Girls) 14 Yes

Vasna school No. 6

Afternoon Guj

557 (All

Boys) 15 Yes

Chandola School No. 2

Afternoon Guj

254 (All

Girls) 7 Yes

Danilimda school No. 1 Morning Guj

343 (All

Boys) 10 Yes

Danilimda school No. 2

Afternoon Guj

579 (All

Boys) 15 Yes

Source: As per the information given by Principals of respective schools during inte

Condition of toilet in Chandola School

O&M Issues in toilets in schools, no water connections

Target beneficiaries

Target beneficiaries - ASAL would concentrate intervention in 5 slums and a wider reach through schools and CBOs to 70 slums in

Ahmedabad - The key target group includes school children, young adults, women between the ages of 15 49, and children under

5 years of age - ASAL aims to reach out to about 100,000 people including residents of slum/ slum-like areas and municipal school

children - ASAL activities will target slums and KFAs of Ahmedabad but it is envisaged that the benefits would be accrued by

the entire city - The results and the learnings of the program will be shared with fifty other cities of Gujarat and in cities of Indore

and Pune.

Thank you

Email ID : arudra@usaid.gov Urban WASH Alliance proposals http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=222653

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