Partnering with Mission Convergence an Innovative Governance Reform Programme in Delhi, strengthening and expanding women-led empowerment strategies

Purpose

To improve the access of marginal and at risk communities, living in unauthorized and under-served settlements, to sanitation services through constructive engagement with government spearheaded by Women’s Forums in Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata.

Activities

The focus of the project has been to improve the access of marginal and at risk communities, living in unauthorized and under-served settlements, to sanitation services through constructive engagement with government spearheaded by Women’s Forums in Delhi, Jaipur and Kolkata.

Towards this end we are working at multiple levels to crystallize the demands of the community and using programmatic spaces and opportunities to partner with the government bodies to advance the twin objectives of impacting behaviour change, and strengthening convergence of services for the poor and in particular for women and girls. We have used multiple strategies: Capacity building to advocacy with decision and policy makers to implementing demonstrative, innovative and collaborative processes on the ground.

We have succeeded in catalyzing some modicum of behaviour change, and mainstreamed the Women’s Forums, thus ensuring participatory processes and women’s forum inputs into many critical processes.

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Objectives

1. Behavior change of end-users through community-led sanitation efforts
2. Partner with Mission Convergence in scaling up Sanitation Services for unauthorized settlements in Delhi and replicate the key learning and good practices from Delhi in Kolkata and Jaipur
3. Improving responsiveness of planners using community based scoring, to set standards on sanitation behaviour and service delivery

Further information

Across the three cities we are playing critical role in scaling up the issue of sanitation and the need for gender-responsive program and influencing the process from planning, enhancing participation and strengthening the implementation of services on the ground.

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Behaviour change Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Community sanitation East Asia & Pacific Enabling environment and institutional strengthening Political processes and institutional aspects Public awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Specific to one or several countries University, education or research institution Urban (entire city) Urban informal settlements (slums)

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