This document proposes the WASH INDIA concept to address sustainability issues facing over 10,000 community water schemes in Kerala. It involves creating a central hub organization and professional "service provider spokes" to support rural and urban local governments, communities, and private households. The central hub would coordinate advocacy, training, and knowledge sharing. Service provider spokes would operate as independent business units offering need-based professional services like training, operations and maintenance, infrastructure rehabilitation, water quality monitoring, and more. This network of organizations would leverage existing NGO capacities and provide market-based WASH services statewide.

1. WASH INDIA Concept and
Pitch- Rationale and roles
Dr. V.Kurian Baby IAS (Retd)
Kozhikkode, Kerala India - 3rd August 2019

2. ENTREPRENEURIAL
SERVICE PROVIDER
BUSINESS SPOKES
WIN SOCIETY CENTRAL HUB
Central Hub Service Provider Spokes
• Liaise with GoK/donors
• Advocacy and knowledge
management/best practices
• Training and capacity building
• Action Research
• WASH Mart
• Facilitate Kerala Rural Water
Association
• Function as independent
powerful business units
providing professional
services to WASH sector
• National network??

3. Professional Services to Community
Schemes
Support to PRIs Support to Households/Private sector
A. Rationale
• Over 10000 community schemes
facing sustainability issues in the
absence of PCS
• Willing to pay for quality services +
Jal Jeevan (100% piped)
• Leverage NGO capacities created
by jalanidhi
B. Suite of Need based Services:
• Training and capacity building
• Backstopping services
(Tech/managerial/accounting/
conflict /cost recovery
• Asset Management and O&M
contract
• Rehabilitation/expansion and
modernization (KWA)/24x7
• Water quality monitoring and
surveillance
• Liaison and intermediation
support
A. Rationale
• Over INR 70000 crore next V
years+ Jalsakthi/GoI
schemes/MP/MLA etc
• WASH constitutional mandate
• No professional support agency
to PRIs to handle the needs
B. Suite of Need based Services:
• Plan, design, contract, Manage
water supply schemes
• Circuit riders (WQ monitoring,
service delivery benchmarking
and reporting)
• Rehabilitation of KWA/other GP
schemes
• Training and capacity building
• Environmental sanitation services
• Micro-irrigation and GP water
security
A. Rationale
• Self-supply is dominant service provision
B. Suite of Need based Services:
• Sustainable and sanitized wells/RWH
• Homestead water security& drought
proofing
• Plumbing / environmental sanitation,
waste management and water
recycling/reuse
• Large RWH structures for apartments
• Water audit and demand management
• All solicited market based services for
sustainable WASH
Members:
• Jalanidhi professional schemes/ NGOs/
business enterprises
• Supported by network of engineers/WASH
professionals/Institutions/labs/training
Centers