CONSULTATION MEETINGON

SUSTAINABLE SANITATION

9th September 2009GKVK Campus, Bengaluru

J.Geetha, Executive Director, Gramalaya

What is sustainable sanitation?What is sustainable sanitation?

Sustainable sanitation means technically viable, socially acceptable and economically affordable.

Sustained hygiene behaviours with long lasting impact on the lives of the people.

Community-led, people-centered, self-sufficiency in implementation

Listening – a report by WSSCC

The main barrier to safe water and sanitation is not the lack of resources, but our willingness to learn from past failures and to listen to learn new approaches.

Looking for innovative approaches to reverse the negative trend of non-achieving

Taking lessons from small scale micro-level projects

Scaling-up from the lessons learned

What is needed? Access to information Access to technology Access to resources

Sustainable sanitation

Challenges in scaling up sustainable sanitation include know how, capacity, attitudes, demand, credit, financing, policies, etc. 

National and local Governance should accommodate frameworks for Sustainable Sanitation.

It also needs capacity development

A comprehensive approach towards sustainability

Combining hardware with Software

Sanitation combined with hygiene education

Software activities include :

Information, Education and Communication – IEC

Training and capacity building of CBOs

Hardware activities include :

Construction of household latrines, school latrines, community latrines, providing safe drinking water

Toilet technology park

Toilet options field tested by Gramalaya UNDP – Twin-pit –

pour-flush toilet Single Leach pit toilet Toilet attached with

bathroom with leach-pit

Direct flush-out toilet Dry toilet Eco-san toilet

Best toilet options as experienced by Gramalaya

Toilet attached bathroom with leach-pit

Giving privacy for women and girls during menstrual period, water facilities for hand washing, clothe washing and for

bathing. Eco-san for difficult

areas like Water logging, coastal regions, rocky terrains. Good response in the above areas by the people as it is environment friendly, people realized that frequent cleaning of septic tanks, foul smell, polluting water sources, cannot go for leach-pit low-cost models.

Direct flush out toilet with gooseneck model

Where there is space constraint and people unable to invest more money for toilet construction

Accessible, affordable and acceptable toilets

Different toilet options are provided ranging from zero budget (home made latrines) to Rs.9000/- compost toilets.

Good response for Toilet with bathroom facilities

Toilets with temporary superstructures to reduce the construction cost

For toilets with permanent superstructures using bricks, cement hollow blocks, loan facilities are arranged either through banks or revolving fund through women self-help groups

ECOSAN toilet with bathroom

Toilet attached bathroom

Successfully demonstrated models and scaling up

There are no enough charity organizations to fund toilet construction.

Low-cost, technically viable, acceptable models

Financing by public private partnership – Own funds, commercial banks linkages, SHG savings and MFIs

WaterCredit Initiatives by Gramalaya

WaterCredit WaterCredit means providing small

loans to individuals to promote water and sanitation facilities in their households.

WaterCredit empowers people to immediately address their WATSAN needs. As loans are repaid, they can be redeployed to additional people in need of safe water and sanitation.

Gramalaya field-tested the concept and provided Rs.45,00,000/- to urban poor and the recovery was 100%.

So far Rs. 4,59,45,000/- Provided for water and toilets to 7243 beneficiaries in Tiruchirapalli District through Guardian MFI.

Fund mobilization for toilet construction

Sl.no.

Fund Mobilization for toilet constructio

n

2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09Total no. of toilets construct

ed

Total Amount

mobilized for toilet

constructionNo.of toilets

AmountNo.of

ToiletsAmount

No.of Toilets

AmountNo. of toilets

Amount

1 Banks 167150,13,000.0

0904

27,12,000.00

59982,69,21,600.

002093 7378600.00 10666

4,20,25,200.00

2SHG Internal Savings

172942,36,050.0

01317

32,92,500.00

46951,55,13,090.

003480

11260590.00

112213,43,02,230.0

0

3Govt .Subsidy

1243 7,45,800.00 301318,07,800.0

06328

75,93,600.00

4578 5493600.00 151621,56,40,800.0

0

4Own Contribution

77 2,31,000.00 232 6,96,000.00 140561,33,000.0

0879 3503000.00 2593

1,05,63,000.00

5 MFI Linkage 0 0 0 0 2014 83,20,000 90744,53,787.0

02921

1,27,73,787.00

6 PRIs 0   376 6,39,200.00 494 5,94,900.00 494 594900.00 1364 18,29,000.00

Total : 47201,02,25,85

0.006,342

1,16,47,500.00

21,54668136190.

0012431

32684477.00

4503912,26,94,01

7.00

Experience with TSC TSC guidelines with excellent

strategies Demand driven, people-centered,

community-led principles, RSM to support, Social marketing concept, NGP award.

Allocation of fund very limited as subsidy only for BPL categories which will provide 30% of the population in a village - i.e. in a village of 100 families, only 30 families will get subsidy. No solution for remaining families.

Delayed release of subsidy amount by LGI

Not monitored properly at grass-root-level

In many places, no NGOs or CBOs are involved in TSC.

No systematic IEC strategies Contractors involvement result in

incomplete toilets, without quality and usage. Abandoned and damaged, deserted toilets

School sanitary blocks

School sanitary blocks to be constructed within the school campus

Separate toilet and urine facilities for boys, girls and school teachers

Appropriate technology Child friendly, girl

friendly toilets with water and incinerator facilities according to the strength of the school

Toilets should be maintained by the school children through School Health Committee

Collaboration needed for Sustainable Sanitation

Local based, committed and experienced NGOs

Enthusiastic and trained with close monitoring LGIs

Strong CBOs with financial support by bankers or financial institutions

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