SHEOHAR 2

COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT-LED SUSTAINABLE AND EQUITABLE ACCESS TO WASH INITIATIVES

2018 - 2022*

*Implementation to be completed by December 2021, with project closure to be done by March 2022.

**From January to September 2020.

Credit:

Kannagi Khanna

District of Sheohar, State of Bihar

250,000

People will be impacted by project’s end

102,500

People impacted in 2020

Highlights

– Installed 140 new community waterpoints covering 140 wards.

– Installed child-friendly WASH facilities in 11 schools, benefitting more than 3,600 students and staff.

– Conducted 114 training sessions for capacity building of the Meena Manch and WATSAN committees to promote the adoption of hygiene behaviours.

– Presented 120 street play shows in the project areas to inspire uptake of targeted behaviours.

– As part of a storytelling pilot, trained field facilitators in audio-visual recording, selected 11 local rural artists, gathered 16 distinct traditional oral narratives through interviews and completed a co-creation production workshop for the
performance.

– Organized 12 workshops to help more than 700 farmers adopt best agriculture practices in cereal and vegetable crop production.

– As part of the pandemic response, measures were taken to ensure physical distancing at project waterpoints.