Water and Livelihoods Secure Gram Panchayats Programme
The “Water and Livelihoods Secure Gram Panchayats Programme” project will strengthen the communities’ institutional, technical, and financial capabilities. It is a collaborative measure for water security. It will build and promote practices and infrastructure for water conservation and reasonable use. Enable water-based livelihood opportunities with the participation of women in economic activities, and build community systems for integrated water, sanitation & hygiene, and nutrition.
The project aims to help build village-level capacities for managing sustainable water conservation and livelihood development across 3 Gram Panchayats of Odisha and Jharkhand.
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REACH
3500 households, 41 villages
REGION
Sundargarh, Jharsuguda districts in Odisha and Gumla district in Jharkhand
PROJECT STATUS
Ongoing
TIMELINE
October 2022 to September 2023
BUDGET
₹47 lakh
PARTNERS
Deloitte India
ACTIVITIES
- Sensitization sessions with community, PRI representatives on the project and roles of different stakeholders
- Facilitate preparation of village action plan
- Facilitate training of Village Development Committee and SHG leaders on organisation management, accounting and bookkeeping
- Facilitate formation and strengthening of Bal Sansad and Kishori-Kishor Samuh
- Support families with home lighting system to promote children’s education and social needs
- Conduct Hydro-geological survey of the Gram Panchayat (dug well inventory, geological mapping, aquifer performance test to evaluate groundwater situation)
- Prepare village level water security plans
- Facilitate Gram Panchayat level workshops for integrating Water Security Plans into Gram Panchayat Development Plans
- Renovation of water bodies, plantation and land development activities for water conservation
- Facilitate water quality surveillance and management at community level
- Repair and maintenance of water sources
- Construction of household level toilet & bathing room with Swachh Bharat Mission
- Conduct sensitization sessions for improved WASH behaviour at community level
- Effective management of Solid and Liquid waste at household and community level
- Undertake sessions on Menstrual Hygiene Management & life skills for adolescents
- Facilitate formation and strengthening of Farmer Producer Groups (FPG)
- Promote biofloc model fisheries
- Promote improved ways of livestock husbandry
- Establish new/repair and augmentation of irrigation infrastructures with community systems in function
- Promote women led enterprises
- Conduct interface meeting with line departments, Mission Shakti and Odisha Livelihood Mission