plan 529Construction of 10 Eco San Toilets in Village Dattpur of Shohratgarh Block, District Siddharthnagar.

Summary

The Progarmme aims to construct 10 Eco San Toilets in Village Dattpur of Shohratgarh Block Of district Siddharthnagar. Village is also known as Madarahna.

Background

People living in Dattpur village are dependent on agriculture and poor .Total Population of village is 400 & number of household is 42. 328 belong to backward class and 72 to Schedule Caste. There are only 2 toilets in whole village. One is government made & another private. Thus 95 % household defecates openly in village. Open defecation in rural area of Block Shohratgarh is big concern. It leads to soil contamination, surface and groundwater pollution as well as invitation to disease like typhoid, cholera, diarrhea JE/AES (Japanese /Acute Encephalitis Syndrome). Japanese encephalitis is a viral disease that infects animals and humans. It is transmitted by mosquitoes and cause inflammation of the membranes around the brain of affected human being. Mostly children are affected by this disease. Human excrement that villager leave each day in fields of paddy, potatoes Etc. & on banks of water sources which are used for drinking. In This way Infections are related to excreta in two ways: the pathogens leave the original host’s body through excreta, or one of the vectors of the disease benefits from the lack of adequate sanitary structures or from accessible excreta. Several disease-groups leave the body through excreta. Though, there is vaccine to prevent the disease. But, After Survey in village, It was found that crisis for girls are especially acute: Many drops out of school, once they reach puberty because of inadequate lavatories in schools. On other hand, people having toilets are not aware about basic such as relation of groundwater & discharges from a toilet.
Most of people are dependent on agriculture & as per requirement they also develop kitchen garden. Development of Eco San Toilet will provide them toilet facilities & fertilizers both. So, It is inevitable that model eco san toilets to be develop in Dattpur village. This action is not only a step towards prevention of open defecation but also sensitize people about benefit of toilets to community. The Programme does not focus on achieving only targets But on transforming behaviour of people. Health and hygiene promotion to mothers is key to improve the children’s behaviour and reduce the risks of open defecation by children. The focus is to replicate or multiplying the number of eco san toilets in future too rather than socio-engineering of the concept in the lives of the rural people. Construction of toilets is just one part of programme; the Inevitable step is to make people use them.

Location

Shohratgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

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    question and suggestion

    Varalakshmi VS of Aa Foundation for Community Development

    Dear Sandeep warm greetings! your plan for the ecosan in these village is first time or they are already having ecosan? you can also contact Tamil nadu puducherry project on ecocan. the community needs orientation and training if they are using first time, so please plan for that. regards

    Dear Sandeep
    warm greetings!
    your plan for the ecosan in these village is first time or they are already having ecosan?
    you can also contact Tamil nadu puducherry project on ecocan.
    the community needs orientation and training if they are using first time, so please plan for that.

    regards

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    question and answer

    Varalakshmi VS of Aa Foundation for Community Development

    other than ecosan you also have mentioned many other issues related to toilets , are you also building for school children?

    other than ecosan you also have mentioned many other issues related to toilets , are you also building for school children?

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Dear Varalakshmi Ji, We are not building for school children. If you have seen SES projects. We have constructed 10 eco san toilets in other village. Our staff oriented there. If we need any orientation support, I'll surely contact. Thanks, Sandeep

      Dear Varalakshmi Ji,

      We are not building for school children.

      If you have seen SES projects. We have constructed 10 eco san toilets in other village. Our staff oriented there. If we need any orientation support, I'll surely contact.

      Thanks,
      Sandeep

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    hygiene promotion

    Katie Chandler of Etta Projects

    Hi Sandeep, Thanks for sharing your interesting proposal. Most of my concerns echo the comments made by the other reviewers… I agree that it would be beneficial to learn more up-to-date results from your past sanitation project. I like how your proposal articulates the need for hygiene promotion (especially for mothers). I would lik...

    Hi Sandeep,

    Thanks for sharing your interesting proposal. Most of my concerns echo the comments made by the other reviewers…
    I agree that it would be beneficial to learn more up-to-date results from your past sanitation project. I like how your proposal articulates the need for hygiene promotion (especially for mothers). I would like to learn more about your hygiene promotion workshops. How many workshops will you offer in the community? What topics will you cover? Do you train local people to lead the project activities? Do you have workshops that target children?
    Also, are the masons that you will train from the local village?
    You mention that other efforts from the local government yielded very poor results and that most families use the latrine for storage. What will your project do to convince families to utilize the latrines?
    Thanks again and I look forward to your response!

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Dear Katie, Here are answer to your question. Hope, it'll satisfy you: There will be no special workshop among especially women, children. Timeline will develop with participation of staff, community & availability of community member(as large number of members are engaged in agricultural activities).All sensitization will be done ...

      Dear Katie,

      Here are answer to your question. Hope, it'll satisfy you:

      There will be no special workshop among especially women, children. Timeline will develop with participation of staff, community & availability of community member(as large number of members are engaged in agricultural activities).All sensitization will be done through community meeting.
      We will target the motives people naturally have for changing hygiene behaviour. There are different stakeholders (women, men, children elderly, youth, farmers etc.) in village. For each of them, there are different drivers that will motivate them to move from knowledge to actual practice. , the status that having a toilet gives may motivate men, while the safety and privacy it gives may motivate women
      For Example: Government of India has executing Nirmal Bharat Abhiyaan(Total Sanitation Campaign) with Indian film actress Vidya Balan. They have developed various video. There are one video which talks about harm of open defecation. In another video, it was shown a girl left her in laws house because there was no toilet in home. She will only return to house when there is toilet in house. This can be shown to community especially women. There are several videos which we will show them which can help them to protect their health, privacy & dignity etc. Similarly. Apart from this we will cover issue of hand washing which can motivate children. Most of time mothers come with children in meeting. We will motivate them through chart depiction in class mode, video showing & exposure to already constructed toilets in Agaya village. Where they can interact with those beneficiaries directly & understand benefit of sanitation & hygiene. We’ll l also choose 2 leaders in beginning meeting who works as catalyst before construction & monitors after construction. Those two will be beneficiary themselves. Yes we’ll train available mason from local village. Our convincing method is meeting, sensitization, class, video showing & interaction with past beneficiary to understand their & after situation.

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    Selection of Beneficiaries

    Juergen Puetz of PALMYRA

    Dear Sir, Your proposal has mentioned that 10 eco-san toilets construction in the village. There are 42 families. Which do u follow for selection of 10 families under the project. Normally people like flush type toilet than the ecosan. When there is a high level of ground water table the eco-san is good. Do they really like...

    Dear Sir,

    Your proposal has mentioned that 10 eco-san toilets construction in the village. There are 42 families. Which do u follow for selection of 10 families under the project.

    Normally people like flush type toilet than the ecosan. When there is a high level of ground water table the eco-san is good.

    Do they really like the eco-san toilet than the flush type in your place.

    Thanks,

    Dhanam

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Dear Dhanam, We are taking women as focal point for construction. Those who are poorest will more chances of construction. But, it will as per decision of community in meeting. As my proposal there are only 2 toilets in village. The answer is have or have not. It is not about choice of flush or toilets. since we have meetings in vi...

      Dear Dhanam,

      We are taking women as focal point for construction. Those who are poorest will more chances of construction. But, it will as per decision of community in meeting.

      As my proposal there are only 2 toilets in village. The answer is have or have not. It is not about choice of flush or toilets. since we have meetings in village, community is ready for construction.

      Thanks

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    New village v old village

    Rajesh Shah of Peer Water Exchange

    Dear Sandeep, Sorry for the late question: can you explain your decision to construct in a new village? What about last year's project at Agaya? How is the response by the remainder of the community? How many want to build now? How many can build on their own? How many need support? What should be done there as follow-up? Is ther...

    Dear Sandeep,

    Sorry for the late question: can you explain your decision to construct in a new village?

    What about last year's project at Agaya? How is the response by the remainder of the community? How many want to build now? How many can build on their own? How many need support? What should be done there as follow-up?

    Is there a path to 100% coverage? What is it?

    Thanks,
    Rajesh

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Dear Rajesh Ji, Answer for your question is below: 1. Since we are Non Governmental Organization , so we have limited resources. We can not construct toilets in whole village unless we have funds. Our aim of constructing toilets is to develop another model which can be ecologically sustainable. Selection of Village on basis of poor ...

      Dear Rajesh Ji,

      Answer for your question is below:

      1. Since we are Non Governmental Organization , so we have limited resources. We can not construct toilets in whole village unless we have funds. Our aim of constructing toilets is to develop another model which can be ecologically sustainable. Selection of Village on basis of poor percentage of toilets & its usage. We are trying to develop model & inspire & sensitize others community members to construct toilets & use it considering health & sanitation factor.
      2. All toilets in agaya is functional till date.
      3. Community is quite enthusiastic . They are ready for construction of toilet .But only 20% are comfortable in construction of ECO San Toilets. As I have mentioned in this proposal, there is need large scale campaign towards behaviour change & adaptation of ECO San Toilets.

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    model ECOSAN toilets

    AR. Natarajan of Ekoventure

    1. Could you please some models/photos of the ECOSAN toilets constructed in Agaya Village. 2. When these 10 ECOSAN toilets (in Agaya Village) were constructed. What is present position of these toilets? Whether the first batch of "decomposed night soil" has been removed from these toilets? regards Natrajan

    1. Could you please some models/photos of the ECOSAN toilets constructed in Agaya Village.
    2. When these 10 ECOSAN toilets (in Agaya Village) were constructed. What is present position of these toilets? Whether the first batch of "decomposed night soil" has been removed from these toilets?

    regards
    Natrajan

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Dear AR Natarjan Ji, 1. You can see reports, visual documentation from respective link below: http://peerwater.org/en/projects/1649-Construction-of-1-Eco-San-Toilets-in-Agaya-Village-of-Shohratgarh-Block#final-report (on the right side you will be find full reports) http://peerwater.org/en/projects/1649-Construction-of-1-Eco-Sa...

      Dear AR Natarjan Ji,

      1. You can see reports, visual documentation from respective link below:

      http://peerwater.org/en/projects/1649-Construction-of-1-Eco-San-Toilets-in-Agaya-Village-of-Shohratgarh-Block#final-report
      (on the right side you will be find full reports)

      http://peerwater.org/en/projects/1649-Construction-of-1-Eco-San-Toilets-in-Agaya-Village-of-Shohratgarh-Block#final-report

      2. Toilet was completed in may. beneficiary started using it in may. till date first batch of decomposed night soil has been not removed.

      Thanks,
      Sandeep

    • Sandeep Srivastava of Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES)

      Link was not copied Natrajan ji, Link for toilet model, see below video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaGKZhhybog Thanks

      Link was not copied Natrajan ji, Link for toilet model, see below video:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaGKZhhybog

      Thanks