Enabling Environment Assessment for Scaling Up Sanitation Programs : Himachal Pradesh, India
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is in the start-up phase of a new Global Scaling up Sanitation Project. The project is applying Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM) to stimulate and scale up sanitation demand and supply. One of the central objectives of the project is to improve sanitation at a scale sufficient to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for improved sanitation in Indonesia, Tanzania, and the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The baseline enabling environment assessment was carried out during the start-up phase of the overall project in May and June 2007. A follow-up assessment will be carried out at the end of project implementation, in approximately May or June 2009. The main objective of this assessment was to establish a baseline of the programmatic conditions needed to scale up, sustain and replicate the total sanitation and sanitation marketing in the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The TSSM project enables the WSP team to enhance and broaden the level of support provided, to leverage Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) resources and sector opportunities at the national level, to extend its preexisting engagements at the state level, and to facilitate achievement of the TSSM objectives and outcomes. The TSC provides a broad financial and policy framework for sanitation improvement in India, but allows individual states and districts the freedom to develop local policies and interventions according to their specific needs and priorities. This freedom limits central control of program methodology, but allows more progressive local governments to develop and implement new approaches and policies. As a result, there is a wide variation in the effectiveness and outcomes of the TSC in different states.
Summary: | The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
is in the start-up phase of a new Global Scaling up
Sanitation Project. The project is applying Total Sanitation
and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM) to stimulate and scale up
sanitation demand and supply. One of the central objectives
of the project is to improve sanitation at a scale
sufficient to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goal
(MDG) targets for improved sanitation in Indonesia,
Tanzania, and the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh and
Madhya Pradesh. The baseline enabling environment
assessment was carried out during the start-up phase of the
overall project in May and June 2007. A follow-up assessment
will be carried out at the end of project implementation, in
approximately May or June 2009. The main objective of this
assessment was to establish a baseline of the programmatic
conditions needed to scale up, sustain and replicate the
total sanitation and sanitation marketing in the Indian
states of Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The TSSM
project enables the WSP team to enhance and broaden the
level of support provided, to leverage Total Sanitation
Campaign (TSC) resources and sector opportunities at the
national level, to extend its preexisting engagements at the
state level, and to facilitate achievement of the TSSM
objectives and outcomes. The TSC provides a broad financial
and policy framework for sanitation improvement in India,
but allows individual states and districts the freedom to
develop local policies and interventions according to their
specific needs and priorities. This freedom limits central
control of program methodology, but allows more progressive
local governments to develop and implement new approaches
and policies. As a result, there is a wide variation in the
effectiveness and outcomes of the TSC in different states. |
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