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Water and
Sanitation
(Amrit)
Under the water and sanitation programme,
the discovery phase was utilised to identify
issues at the infrastructure level as well as
at the behavioural level of the community.
Numerous gaps such as inefcient toilet
design, various disbeliefs of the community etc
were identified. Interventions were designed
for these issues with an objective of creating
open defecation free (ODF) gram panchayats.
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
approach was adopted to create ODF GPs.
SNAPSHOTS
Community engaging in games Workshop for children
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Consulting agencies like Feedback Foundation
and NRM consultants took up the work of
training the Samuday team on the approach
and initial CLTS in Kachhauna.
The training done by experts on sanitation
helped Samuday team to mobilise community
for construction of toilets. The team then
shared toilet designs and recommendations
to the community. The team then shared the
toilet designs and recommendations on usage
with the community.
Children participating in games