In Gwalior UN Habitat and Water Aid, India have partnered with Sambhav as one of the partners to implement the Slum Environment and Community Sanitation Program. This program covers a population of 26,000.

Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur,  are among the first Indian cities to work in cooperation with UN-HABITAT, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh to ensure that investments in the water and sanitation sector reach the urban poor in these cities. The idea of the UN-HABITAT initiative is that the project be implemented under a pro-poor urban governance structure to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation.

Slums

•       Laxman Pura •       Mari Mata •       Khajanchi Baba •       Raja Gas Godaam •       Amra Pahaad

•       Krishna Nagar •       Dholi Bua Ka Pul •       Hurawali •       Payega •       Badnapura

•       Reshampura •       Noor Ganj •       Golandaj •       Jatavpura •       New Mehara Colony •       Gram Barha

Objectives

•             Demonstration of how communities can be empowered for acquiring adequate sanitation that meets their needs.

•             Generate felt demand for sanitation facilities in slums through awareness creation, health education, and capacity building.

•             Cover schools/ Anganwadis in slums with sanitation facilities and promote hygiene education and sanitary habits among students.

•             Encourage cost effective and appropriate technologies in all aspect of sanitation.

•             Ensure total open defecation free slums by constructing low cost individual HH latrines, community managed sanitation complexes wherever required and school sanitation complexes

•             Safe disposal of domestic waste water

•             Promote community managed household collection, of solid waste and transportation to the municipal bins.

•             Development of community owned and managed water supply and environmental sanitation facilities, including individual facilities, through setting up of proper and sustainable systems (including cost sharing), and community based operation and maintenance.

Strategies

•      Develop best practice models to maximize health benefits.

•      Emphasizing on Information Education and Communication resulting in generation of demand for sanitary facilities.

•      Address entire slum population to bring about the relevant behavioral changes for improved sanitation and hygiene practices.

•      Work with women and children.

•      Construction of community toilets

Components- Technical •             Individual Toilets •             Water Harvesting Structure •             Community Toilet •             Soak Pits

Components- Social •      Awareness •      Mobilization •      Nirmal Samitee •      Self Help Groups •      Parent Teacher Association •      Gwalior Municipal Corporation

 Activities

Software	Hardware
•            Exhibition •            Rally •            Camps •            Hoardings/Wall Paintings •            SHG Formation •            CWASC Formation •            Training and Workshop •            Stakeholder Consultation •            Staff Orientation •            IEC Activities •            Organizing Events •            Hygiene Promotion in Schools •            School Sanitation Program	•        Household Toilets •        Roof Top Water Harvesting •        Soak Pits •        Creation of Water Points •        School Toilet Block •        Under ground drainage chamber •        Sewer Line •        Solid Waste Management

 

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. 

   Paulo Freire

 Accomplishments:

School Toilet	3
Roof Water Harvesting	4
Soak Pit	15
Demonstration Toilet	105
Toilets Made through Loan	20
Open Defecation Free Slums	Laxman Pura, Marimata
SHG	22
Nirmal Samittee	8
Masons Trained	20
Mechanics Trained	20
Exhibitions	16
Rally	28
Hygiene Camps	12
Hoardings	2
NADEP Pits	2
Water Arrangement by Municipal Corporation	In three slums