Children educates community on sanitation - Governance in India

hygiene promotion, and solid waste management and were supported by NGOs to develop projects likevermi composting, fisheries in urban sewage treatment, puppetry to communicate about diseases etc.OrissaFrom Sweta Patnaik, WaterAid India, BhubaneswarStreet <strong>Children</strong> Debate Water and Sanitation ScenarioWaterAid's partner Ruchika Social Service Organisation (RSSO) runs special schools for street childrenpromoting Child Parliaments that debate Orissa’s water and sanitation scenario. The children dress upas Members of Parliament/Legislative Assembly and enact a mock of the parliament in progress. RSSOprovides information to these children and they raise questions and answers on drinking water andsanitation facilities and provisions made by the Government.Meena Clubs of Child Environment Programme (CEP) in Kendrapara districtUnder UNICEF’s CEP Nature's Club, with support from the district administration and Water andSanitation Mission, promoted MEENA Clubs in two blocks. The clubs consisting of girls ages six tosixteen inspired by MEENA films tried to change the watsan situation in their villages. The clubs acted aspressure groups to motivate and urge families and communities to construct and use toilets in homesand repair/maintain drinking water sources and <strong>community</strong> bathrooms.<strong>Children</strong> Using Participatory Analysis (PA) in Flood Prone Areas (from V.R. Raghavan, OxfamGB, Kolkata)While working with school children in promotion of water and sanitation in flood prone areas, contextualPA in the school and village was used. <strong>Children</strong> analysed water and sanitation scenarios at their homes,neighbourhood, <strong>community</strong> and school level. After identifying the problems, they developed a dreamplan for their village and school, identifying processes to achieve them. Thus, an activity plan isdeveloped, integrated with TSC in few schools and gaps are supported by Oxfam and partners.Multiple StatesPAHELI (Peoples Audit of Health, Education and Livelihoods) Survey Engages Participants(from Rukmini Banerji, Pratham India, New Delhi)Pratham recently undertook a pictorial watsan survey. In each district, a local group collected data froma random sample of households- 30 villages/district in 11 districts across the country. The PAHELIsurvey was designed along the principles of the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), and isfacilitated annually across the country by over 600 district partners. Use of this pictoral survey approachhas enabled participants to become more engaged in watsan activities.SWASTHH+ Program (from Madhu Ranjan, USAID, New Delhi)Aims at improving the school environment with a focus on hygiene and sanitation so as to also improvechildren's enrolment, attendance and retention, especially for girls, and eventually, improvement inlearning. Multi-pronged approaches were undertaken by USAID such as training/teach and learnmaterials in curriculum/learning camps etc are used to bring change in the hygiene behaviour of schoolchildren and through them, the communities. Gradual but visible change has been observed. Read moreChakmak Champion Program (from Sweta Patnaik, WaterAid India, Bhubaneswar)This program is part of WaterAid India’s nationwide hand washing campaign. Some of the partnerschools select a "Chakmak" every month from each class- who is the "cleanest" child followingcorrect hand-washing practices, uses a toilet at home and school, uses footwear, etc. and mostimportantly, motivates others to do so.