Creating Youth Leaders for Promoting Water & Sanitation in Haryana

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Objectives	To train a group of youth leaders for promoting water and sanitation in Southern Haryana, India To facilitate trained youth brigade to function as a change agent for their village and the district To generate evidences on existing rural practices in relation to water borne diseases To leverage on Swachh Bharat activities for facilitating changes in target districts
Timeline	2016-2017
Location	Nuh (erstwhile Mewat), Palwal, Haryana, India
Methods	Activities under this project are divided into 3 phases: Phase 1 focuses on developing training curriculum and other tools for screening and recruitment of local youth. This includes development of multi stakeholder engagement framework for nexus planning and community engagements Phase 2 will target EcoWaSH assessment of villages using EcoWaSH interns and EcoEyes. Phase 3 will involve conducting EcoWaSH dialogues with community using Eco maps and other information gathered during the assessment.
Expected Outcomes	Project will train 102 youth from rural areas on capturing contextual EcoWaSH issues using Geo Media tools. Village, panchayat, block and district EcoWaSH assessment reports prepared by the trained youth will help in the development of district sanitation implementation plan as envisaged in the Swachh Bharat Mission document. Project will provide foundation for conducting formative research on EcoWaSH spatio temporal assessment in relation with water borne diseases.
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Principal Investigator

Dr. Shikha Dixit

Co-PI’s

Mr. Rakesh N Pillai

Implementation Team