The document discusses strategies for improving access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for women. It focuses on empowering excluded and marginalized groups, especially women, to access safe and sustainable WASH services. Key approaches include developing women's leadership and awareness of their rights, supporting governments to deliver better WASH through training and policy work, and mainstreaming WASH in other development sectors like health, education, and governance through partnerships and research. Examples illustrate how these strategies have transformed lives by developing skills, addressing violence, and improving status and acceptance of marginalized women.
Presentation on receommendations on governance related to rural drinking water and sanitation ecurity. Presentation made in Delhi on December 14, 2010 as a part of civil society consultations on the approach paper to the 12th Five Year Plan. Facilitated by Arghyam and WaterAid. More details visit www.arghyam.org
Power Point Presentation displaying my involvement in the community, past internship experience, awards and clubs over the course of my college career.
Presentation on receommendations on governance related to rural drinking water and sanitation ecurity. Presentation made in Delhi on December 14, 2010 as a part of civil society consultations on the approach paper to the 12th Five Year Plan. Facilitated by Arghyam and WaterAid. More details visit www.arghyam.org
Power Point Presentation displaying my involvement in the community, past internship experience, awards and clubs over the course of my college career.
MHT was established in 1994 as an autonomous organization promoted by the Self Employed Women’s Association
(SEWA). MHT organizes and empowers poor women by facilitating the formation of community-based organizations
(CBOs) and assisting them in gaining formal recognition from the government and service providers, so as to address the
need for basic infrastructural services such as water, sanitation and electricity provision in slums.
Valuing Local Perspectives: Lessons Learned from Participatory Reflection and...Humentum
Hear from ActionAid, which recognizes that the learning and knowledge that informs programmatic impact comes from the communities we work with. Learn about their participatory approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL). Leave with a tool and methodology that can be adapted to your needs and context, and with insights on how to work together to value local voices and their contribution to MEL processes.
Concept of Participatory Resource Appraisal, Role of community in resource appraisal is also discussed. Impact of Participatory Resource Appraisal is also mentioned
Slum community groups use negotiation skills, knowledge, to improve access to...Siddharth Agarwal
Urban Health Resource Centre's practical experiences shared at Urban Thinkers Campus on Health and Wellbeing
Convened by United Nations University IIGH,
Kuching, Malaysia
Ignited slum community groups engage as active citi-zens, negotiate collaboratively for equity and access to contribute to better urban governance .
i) Trained, empowered slum women’s groups and cluster-level teams of slum women’s groups gives stronger voice and greater negotiation power.
ii) Increase Access to Govt. Address Proof and Picture ID: During Apr 2013 gave legitimacy to urban informal settlement families– Mar 2015: 20,000 persons benefited from Govt. proof of address and Picture ID
iii) Empowered women facilitate reduction in alcoholism, domestic violence against women, enhance caring capacity of woman, family, improved social support. With over 125 million women among urban vulnerable in India, women-power has immense potential towards improved health, social justice, wellbeing.
iv) Trained slum community groups pull regular outreach health Services by Government providers in Migrant, other Deprived clusters
v) With training, mentoring, hand-holding support community groups engage in gentle, tactful negotiation through collective written petitions/requests to officers of Municipal Authorities, Nutrition Dept, Electricity Dept. Disadvantaged communities actively participate in governance, collaborate for equity, justice, access: maintain paper trail, persevere with tact (including tea + biscuits, polite thank you) to achieve “Right to the City”.
vi) Slum youth-children groups emerging as ‘Force Gen-next’: With continual mentoring, motivation Youth-children groups in slums improve their own lives; contribute to their communities in tangible ways, bring more vigour and joy to ‘ignite the senses”. It is noteworthy that there are 150 million youth 15-32 yr, 125 million 10-24 yr in urban India
vii) Spatial City and Neighborhood Mapping helps make invisible, voiceless poverty clusters and recent migrants, weaker families visible and their social inclusion.
viii) Let us Build Human Capability, Expertise, Ignite Action & Engagement, Collaborative efforts and Resilience of Urban Excluded, Deprived Citi-zens, and to bounce forward, prevent their learning to survive in impoverishment Let us translate words into real action towards inclusive, socially just cities.
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Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Dasra means 'enlightened giving' in Sanskrit and is India's leading strategic philanthropy foundation.
Dasra recognizes an urgent need for inspired and uncompromising competence to touch and transform the lives of 800
million Indians. Through knowledge creation, capacity building, collaboration and fundraising, we nurture powerful
partnerships with funders and social enterprises. Since 1999, Dasra has engaged with over 3,000 corporates,
foundations and philanthropists, influenced INR 280 crore towards the social sector and improved the life chances of
over 10 million people.
MHT was established in 1994 as an autonomous organization promoted by the Self Employed Women’s Association
(SEWA). MHT organizes and empowers poor women by facilitating the formation of community-based organizations
(CBOs) and assisting them in gaining formal recognition from the government and service providers, so as to address the
need for basic infrastructural services such as water, sanitation and electricity provision in slums.
Valuing Local Perspectives: Lessons Learned from Participatory Reflection and...Humentum
Hear from ActionAid, which recognizes that the learning and knowledge that informs programmatic impact comes from the communities we work with. Learn about their participatory approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL). Leave with a tool and methodology that can be adapted to your needs and context, and with insights on how to work together to value local voices and their contribution to MEL processes.
Concept of Participatory Resource Appraisal, Role of community in resource appraisal is also discussed. Impact of Participatory Resource Appraisal is also mentioned
Slum community groups use negotiation skills, knowledge, to improve access to...Siddharth Agarwal
Urban Health Resource Centre's practical experiences shared at Urban Thinkers Campus on Health and Wellbeing
Convened by United Nations University IIGH,
Kuching, Malaysia
Ignited slum community groups engage as active citi-zens, negotiate collaboratively for equity and access to contribute to better urban governance .
i) Trained, empowered slum women’s groups and cluster-level teams of slum women’s groups gives stronger voice and greater negotiation power.
ii) Increase Access to Govt. Address Proof and Picture ID: During Apr 2013 gave legitimacy to urban informal settlement families– Mar 2015: 20,000 persons benefited from Govt. proof of address and Picture ID
iii) Empowered women facilitate reduction in alcoholism, domestic violence against women, enhance caring capacity of woman, family, improved social support. With over 125 million women among urban vulnerable in India, women-power has immense potential towards improved health, social justice, wellbeing.
iv) Trained slum community groups pull regular outreach health Services by Government providers in Migrant, other Deprived clusters
v) With training, mentoring, hand-holding support community groups engage in gentle, tactful negotiation through collective written petitions/requests to officers of Municipal Authorities, Nutrition Dept, Electricity Dept. Disadvantaged communities actively participate in governance, collaborate for equity, justice, access: maintain paper trail, persevere with tact (including tea + biscuits, polite thank you) to achieve “Right to the City”.
vi) Slum youth-children groups emerging as ‘Force Gen-next’: With continual mentoring, motivation Youth-children groups in slums improve their own lives; contribute to their communities in tangible ways, bring more vigour and joy to ‘ignite the senses”. It is noteworthy that there are 150 million youth 15-32 yr, 125 million 10-24 yr in urban India
vii) Spatial City and Neighborhood Mapping helps make invisible, voiceless poverty clusters and recent migrants, weaker families visible and their social inclusion.
viii) Let us Build Human Capability, Expertise, Ignite Action & Engagement, Collaborative efforts and Resilience of Urban Excluded, Deprived Citi-zens, and to bounce forward, prevent their learning to survive in impoverishment Let us translate words into real action towards inclusive, socially just cities.
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Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Dasra means 'enlightened giving' in Sanskrit and is India's leading strategic philanthropy foundation.
Dasra recognizes an urgent need for inspired and uncompromising competence to touch and transform the lives of 800
million Indians. Through knowledge creation, capacity building, collaboration and fundraising, we nurture powerful
partnerships with funders and social enterprises. Since 1999, Dasra has engaged with over 3,000 corporates,
foundations and philanthropists, influenced INR 280 crore towards the social sector and improved the life chances of
over 10 million people.
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Empowering Rural Communities
May 3, 2016
Suri Sehgal
Development must be community-led
Strengthen community-led development to achieve positive, social and economic change across rural India.
Empowerment
Envision each person across rural India empowered to lead a more secure, prosperous, and dignified life.
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1. Access to WASH by women
Strategies and approaches
Indira Khurana and Sweta Patnaik
2. Improved WASH for Women
The knowledge that improved WASH for women impacts:
• Health and safety
• Education (reduced school absenteeism)
• Dignity
• Livelihoods
and
• Women – especially the excluded face violence and stress
Has led to a women inclusive approach in programming
3. Focus on key result areas
1. Transforming the lives of the Excluded and
the Marginalized (E&M) by empowering
them to access safe and sustainable
WASH services as their right
2. Support governments and service
providers in developing their capacity to
deliver safe and improved WASH as a right
for the E&M
3. Mainstreaming WASH in other
development sectors.
4. Transforming lives of the E and M
Leadership development:
• Ensure 50% women members in VWSCs with 33% leadership
roles. Work with SHGS and adolescent groups
Awareness raising and capacity building:
• Inform about govt programmes and responsibilities
•Water quality testing completed and analyzed in front of
women as they collect water and can discern the difference.
•Water security plans made with the active participation of
women with understanding on competing water demands and
impact on drinking water.
•Women SDC members in Hyderabad, AP, maintain logbooks for
tanker service , inform and engage with GHMC.
5. Supporting Governments to deliver better
Skill and knowledge
o Training PRIs, especially women on water and sanitation and
their role in decentralised water management
o Trained care takers and mechanics at panchayat level
- In Jharkhand, WAI is supporting the SWSM to roll out the Jal
Sahiya programme
- Women motivators trained on programmes gain greater
understanding of the role of local government and are finding their
space in local governance structures – as sarpanches, Ward
members
- Policy level engagement at national level.
6. Supporting Governments to deliver better
Enabling Environment
o Schools have WASH facilities supporting the special needs of
girls
o Education department functionaries are oriented and
sensitised about the special needs of girls and lady teachers vis
a vis WASH facilities in schools
o Water and sanitation engineers are oriented on safer
locations for water and sanitation facilities in schools and
communities.
7. Mainstreaming WASH in other sectors
Forging partnerships
o Joint programming on tribal self governance where gender and
WASH are cross cutting themes in 5 states of India
o Joint programming on violence against dalit women , where right
to water and sanitation is a key area being addressed along with
health and education
Research
o Two discrete pieces of research conducted in India on the co-
relation between (non) access to WASH in urban areas and
violence against women
o One ongoing research on co-relation between access to water
and sanitation and violence against dalit women (5 states)
8. Showing the way
- Karanjikeda village,
Sehore district in Madhya
Pradesh
- Geetabai, a dalit woman
from a poor family, located
in the fringes of the village
built the first latrine
- She is the model, the
whole village followed
9. Entrepreneurship
-Trained on a range of skills
from soap to sanitary napkin
making; from building latrines
to repairing hand pumps and
water quality testing, women
are increasing earning.
-This ensure the benefits of
interventions sustain, while
their income augments
-This improves their status
10. Example 3: Claiming rights using RTI
- Programmes educate
people on their rights
and service provider
accountability
- Using RTI the group
gained knowledge of
the various works and
budgets, and are now
Lalitha a migrant from Bihar living in the effectively monitoring
Delhi’s resettlement colonies is a member
of the WATSAN committee implementation
11. Empowerment and acceptance
From double exclusion to two-fold empowerment
- Sirumbayi, from dalit community a 33 year old mother of three
was trained as a handpump caretaker. She is from a marginalised
social caste, forbidden to touch water
- Stature improved after acquiring technical skills to carry out
pump repair
-Despite her caste status, she is invited by dominant caste
communities to repair their pumps – for payment
-Slowly changing power equations
12. When the going gets tough, the tough
get going
- Kurumpanai a coastal village
in TN. Waste accumulation
engulfed the village in a
permanent stench. Out
fishing, men were indifferent
- Margaret, along with other
women, introduced
community based solid waste
management. Peace now
prevails