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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.

REACH

3500 households, 41 villages

REGION

Sundargarh, Jharsuguda districts in Odisha and Gumla district in Jharkhand

PROJECT STATUS

Ongoing

TIMELINE

October 2022 to June 2025

BUDGET

₹1.25 crore

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
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