Developing Capacity Towards Concurrent Monitoring and Supportive Handholding to Govt. of Maharashtra to sustain ODF Status of Rural Maharashtra with Identification of Bottlenecks and Developing Enabling Environment
Objectives:1. Providing support to WSSD, GOM to monitor progress of SBM(G) with Special focus on use of toilets and change in sanitary behaviour as well as critically looking into the issues of ODF sustainability in 12 districts and 20 Census Towns of Maharashtra. Some of the important aspects concerning OOF sustainability and related co-factors like access to and maintenance of pubic toilet facilities, faecal sludge management, SLRM status, augmentation and retrofitting challenges. access to water for use toilet, access to safe drinking water, 0&M of piped water supply schemes, priority for WASH sector in local planning like GPDP, incidence of water botne diseases like diarrhoea, etc. will be covered in the survey.
2. Capturing all these data keeping ODF sustainability in mind will require appropriate cnange in the existing Android application which will be provided.
3. Making changes in the existing software of the website displaying progress and trends of SBM(G) for uploading the analysed data every week in place of the current provision of monthly uploading. The same will be achieved through this proposal.
4. Analysis or the IMIS data at the end of every quarter and share the findings through Fact Sheets far taking appropriate corrective measures,
5. To come out with occasional papers after 3/4 months identifying the bottlenecks and possible ways of overcoming problems.
6. To develop a new module in the website for displaying the indicators of ODF-S.
Name of Partner:UNICEF, Maharashtra
Start date:February, 2018
Completion date:April, 2019
Location:Maharashtra
