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| What We Do |
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| The Project will support the development and demonstration of a demand driven and decentralised service delivery mechanisms. In this bottom-up planning process, the communities will plan their own projects for hygiene, sanitation and water supply interventions according to their need and affordability. They will submit the community schemes to the respective UPs for implementation. The HYSAWA Project will facilitate the establishment of necessary institutional arrangements within the government institutions, and engage private sector management/engineering firms and NGOs, to provide capacity support to the UPs. Cross cutting issues like human rights, gender, culture and development and transparency will be in-built in the scheme preparation processes and be mainstreamed throughout all stages of implementation. |
| Once the delivery model is developed and duly tested, it can also be used for other public services like rural infrastructure, primary health care and mass education. The model is based on permanent government structures and the prevailing capacities of NGOs and private sector; it can easily be scaled up for undertaking large-scale decentralised investment programmes. |
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| The development objective of the HYSAWA is |
| ‘to develop and demonstrate sustainable hygiene, sanitation and water supply service delivery through local governments and in consultation with local people’. |
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| The immediate objectives of the programme are the same as for the WSSPS II as a whole: |
| --- To improve hygiene behaviour /practices |
| --- To promote community-led total sanitation |
| --- To increase coverage of safe water supply services |
| --- To strengthen the capacity of Government, Local Government Institutions (LGIs) and non-government stakeholders at all levels to play the roles required to achieve the above three objectives. |
| --- To promote greater devolution of administrative and financial authority to local government institutions in regard to hygiene, sanitation and water supply. |
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| The objectives will be achieved through outputs delivered through demand-driven activities carried out with financial assistance from the HYSAWA Fund as well as through more supply-driven activities supported through the Local Government Support Unit. |
| Demand-driven activities supported with funding by the HYSAWA Fund will produce the following specific outputs:- |
| --- Improved and sustainable hygiene behaviour/practise achieved in the participating communities in the NW and Coastal Belt Districts. |
| --- Improved access to sanitation facilities and its proper use achieved in the participating communities in the NW and Coastal Belt Districts. |
| --- Access to safe water source and safe water use increased in the participating communities in the NW, Coastal Belt Districts and NGO-F Unions. |
| --- Technical and management capacities of LGIs increased through support from DPHE, NILG and HYSAWA FMO. |
| The outputs produced by the more supply driven activities supported through the LGSU will be as follows:- |
| --- Capacities of 200 UPs in NW Districts and 146 UPs in Coastal Belt Districts developed to support community to formulate schemes, appraise them and manage their implementation |
| --- Technical, management and facilitating capacities of DPHE, other government agencies and private sector increased. |
| --- Capacity of Government agencies at central and district levels developed to respond to demand driven decentralised service delivery. |
