Community Water Plus Project

“Sector Stakeholder Consultation Meeting”

20th Sep 2013 - The Park Hotel, New Delhi Presentation by S.Amirtha - Gramalaya

About Gramalaya •Gramalaya established in 1987. •Gramalaya registered under Trust Act •Gramalaya is working for water, sanitation and women empowerment activities •Gramalaya is currently working in Trichy, Perambalur, Pudukottai and Namakkal Districts of Tamil Nadu. •Gramalaya formed CBOs like 4600 women self-help groups 126 AWASH committees in the project areas. • So far Gramalaya constructed more than 1,00,000 household toilets and provided around 20,000 individual water connections •Gramalaya vision – “Envisions a society in which all people will have equal rights and access to protected water, sanitation, health and improved income status without gender discrimination”

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From time immemorial people in the rural areas are defecating in the open places.

They are not aware of the dangers of open defecation

Unaware of the importance of toilets

Myths and misconceptions about toilets

Educating the toilet habits among the mass is a continuous process

HABITS DIE HARD

• Absence of locale specific toilet type designs and including the cost estimate

• Inferior quality of construction materials produced by local cement fabricators

• Poor quality of construction by contractors without adequate knowledge on the type designs and cost estimates

• Toilet constructions by contractors with profit motive

Access to Technology

Access to Information

Access to Financial

Resources

• Hardware aspects

• Toilet design • Toilet pan • Superstructure • Technical standards • Support services • Men, Money and

Materials • Linking local cement

fabricators • Linking Masons

• Software aspects

• Awareness creation – CLTS approach

• PRIs involvement and commitment

• Roles and responsibilities of different stakeholders

• Door to door hygiene education

• Interpersonal communication

• Focus Group Discussions

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Thandavampatti model toilet (INR 300)

The stone inscription by community

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Toilet only model using Brick Superstructure

Toilet only model attached with wall

Gramalaya promoted Guardian MFI which is providing loans only for water and toilets. This is the first MFI in the World started in 2006 for water and sanitation

Guardian provided loans to 42000 clients for water connections and toilets

A study of leach pit model toilets

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Gramalaya has been

approved as National

level Key Resource

Center for Water and

Sanitation by Ministry

of Drinking Water and

Sanitation

Milestone in Gramalaya history

Toilet attached bathroom model with kitchen garden from bathroom waste water

Space is not the constraint - Toilet constructed in a limited space in front of the house

Leach pits using soling stone lining

Leach pits using concrete rings & top layer soling stone lining

Rural pan with high degree slope for water saving

Eco-san toilet for water-logging areas

A bathroom attached Eco-san toilet

A goose-neck attached polypropylene toilet as – Easy Flush – designed by Gramalaya for direct pit

toilets and emergency sanitation

National-level Workshop on Toilet Technology

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100 toilets in 100 hours in 2005 300 toilets in 3 days in 2006

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Visit of Matt Damon, Hollywood star

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