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•32.9% of the households live below poverty line.
•28% do not have any access to toilet facility.
•31% of population defecating in the open.
•40% of drains are not lined
•38% of the households dump waste in the open
•Only 18% of the total households have access to a sewer or septic tank
•82% of the Poverty Pockets have no access to piped water supply
•82% of the households let waste water flow into open drains and streets
Objectives of the Initiative

1.Demonstration of how communities can be empowered for acquiring adequate sanitation that meets their needs.
2.Generate felt demand for sanitation facilities in slums through awareness creation, health education, and capacity building.
3.Cover schools/ Anganwadis in slums with sanitation facilities and promote hygiene education and sanitary habits among students.
4.Encourage cost effective and appropriate technologies in all aspect of sanitation.
5.Ensure total open defecation free slums by constructing low cost individual HH latrines, community managed sanitation complexes wherever required and school sanitation complexes.

6.Safe disposal of domestic waste water.
7.Promote community managed household collection, segregation of solid waste and transportation to the municipal bins.
8.Development of community owned and managed water supply and environmental sanitation facilities. Including individual facilities, through setting up of proper and sustainable systems (including cost sharing), and community based operation and maintenance.
Strategies

•Develop best practice models to maximize health benefits.
•Emphasizing on Information Education and Communication resulting in generation of demand for sanitary facilities.
•Address entire slum population to bring about the relevant behavioral changes for improved sanitation and hygiene practices.
•Work with women and children.
•Construction of community toilets
Approaches

—Training and capacity building
—Community Involvement
—Alternative pro-poor financing
—Value Based Water and Sanitation Education
—Sustainability
—Involving Women
—IEC for behavioral changes

Strategy For the Implementation

—Working with Local Self
Governance Bodies
—Emphasis on Information,
Education and Communication
involving Sanitation
Committees and SHGs.
—Creating awareness to generate
demand for sanitary facilities
and satisfy felt need based on
financial position.
—Tap potential of children for
advocacy in their households.
—Encourage community
Management