The Tampara wetland is of key importance to many communities in the coastal area of the eastern India state Odisha. However, human activity in the wetland put the water security for tens of thousands of people at risk. Awareness-raising by the Watershed Empowering...

The Watershed programme has provided the much-required entry point for the CSOs at large, and for women, specifically, into the basics of the planning for and management of water and sanitation. It has facilitated women’s participation in community proceedings as...

This water security plan has been prepared by the Gram Panchayat and Ward Implementation and Management Committees of Barbatta Gram Panchayat, Sarairanjan block, Samastipur District, Bihar in keeping with the guidelines issued by the Department of Drinking Water and...

This water security plan has been prepared by the Gram Panchayat and Ward Implementation and Management Committees of Bhagwanpur Kamla Gram Panchayat, Ujiarpur block, Samastipur District, Bihar in keeping with the guidelines issued by the Department of Drinking...

This water security plan contains the water balance estimates, source sustainability interventions, water safety interventions and service improvement measures for hand pumps and piped water supply schemes. (more…)

This water security plan contains the water balance estimates, source sustainability interventions, water safety interventions and service improvement measures for hand pumps and piped water supply schemes. (more…)

The present paper has analysed the Central Finance Commission and State Finance Commission Grants and budgetary provisioning through Centrally Sponsored Schemes like National Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services and Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan for WASH...

The discussion paper has used both primary and secondary sources of data. The important sources of budget data in the district are the Annual Financial Statements and the Quarterly Progress Reports of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), National...

This discussion paper has tried to look into the implementation and key recommendations of the Central Finance Commission (CFC) and State Finance Commissions (SFC) focusing on Bihar and Odisha. Section I covers the introduction, objectives, scope and methodology...

This consolidated policy brief puts together the findings of two projects – Watershed – Capacity Building Support for Civil Society Organisations to Leverage Water and Sanitation Programmes in Bihar and Odisha supported by IRC, and Tracking and Analysing...

The objective of the paper is to aid the efforts of civil society organisations (CSOs) engaging with the issues of fiscal governance in the water and sanitation (WASH) sector in Odisha. It presents the use of budget tracking in rural water and sanitation (WATSAN)...