Title: A Training Report on Basic Health and Sanitation Education and Community Action Planning Process for Community Workers  

Abstract: The Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Fund Development Board (RWSSFDB) was established in 1996 with the objectives (i) to deliver sustainable health and hygiene benefits to the rural through improvements in the  water supply and sanitation facilities; (ii) to improve rural real income by     assisting women identify ways to earn income from time saved in carrying  water; and (iii) to strengthen government and non-government capabilities to undertake and sustain efforts. The focus of the programme is to empower rural communities by using a demand driven approach to service delivery and a  participatory process to decision making to implement their water supply and  sanitation schemes with the assistance of the support organisations (SOs)  recruited by the Board. RWSSFDB also included Health and Sanitation Education (HSE) programme in RWSS schemes as one of the basic component. The schemes will be implemented in batches, each batch comprising of three phases. In pre-development phase SOs and schemes will identified;  in development phase SOs will educate, train and prepare communities to enable them to implement schemes taking lead role and operate  and maintain their own schemes; and in implementation phase schemes will be implemented by the communities with the assistance from SOs.

New ERA provide the training of  CAP process and use of SARAR, the participatory learning tools which are very effective in community action  planning process to the community workers, who are the key staff of the SOs,  they mobilize and facilitate the community. The general objective of the training was to develop the capacity of community workers of SOs to facilitate participatory community action planning process and monitoring and evaluation tasks to strengthen community's ability in those areas. The training also help the participants to understand the software component as well as technical aspects of scheme design and their roles to achieve the objective of the component.

Sponsored By : RWSS/FDB, Kathmandu.    December 1999.  Availability : Photocopy

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