Scaling up Rural Sanitation in Flood Affected & High Polio Risk Districts
(RuSFAD Phase I & II)
Donor :
Plan International
Duration :
Phase I : June-2011 to May-2012
Phase II : Oct-2011 to Oct-2012
Major Activities
- Community mobilization focusing specially on school Children;
- Defecation trenches;
- Sanitation facilities;
- Hand washing facilities through provision of materials and cash incentives;
- The RuSFAD project highly focused and invested on capacity building program through which SRSO covered 2,000 villages with physical target achievement of Capacity building of Community stakeholders through Training of Community Resource Persons.
- Teachers were trained on PATS followed by training of Masons trained for alternative low cost sanitation options with linkage of trained entrepreneurs/sanitation marts funded for community facilitation;
- Demo Latrines are Constructed, WASH facilities provided to Schools & 43 Villages of Latrine, Drinking Water & Sanitation facilities;
- Hygiene Messages were conveyed through IEC material, Interactive Theatres & Print/electronic media;
- Distribution of Hygiene kits among school Children with immediate result of adopting Hand washing & water boiling practices.
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Construction of 83,808 new latrines/CLTS by community itself & declaration of 1,775 Villages Certified as Open Defecation Free (ODF) are the remarkable achievements of the project.
- The Plan International introduced new approach of bioremediation solution through NBS with construction of 2 wetlands for the treatment of domestic and industrial waste water to bring water quality parameters under the limits of National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS). The reclaimed water can be used for agriculture purpose or discharged into rivers and water bodies without disturbing the aquatic ecosystem. These wetlands were constructed in Ghotki and Khairpur Districts.
