WASH
Water Sanitation And Hygiene
Water is life, while sanitation and hygiene have greater links with culture and individual behaviors where people always have a choice. WASH continuous improvement framework with a set of tools for undertaking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) improvements as part of wider quality improvements in health care facilities. WASH related practices, behaviors, behavioral determinants, taboos and cultural characteristics are assessed, monitored and findings are used (on a continuous basis) to inform and refine approaches and strategies to behavior change.
Our Approach
Akshayavat works with urban communities, and the most marginalized groups within them, to ensure residents can demand better WASH services and hold their municipal providers and authorities to account. We focus on including people living in poverty, and support partners to scale-up appropriate delivery models for improving affordable, accessible and sustainable services. In cities and small towns, we take a human rights-based approach.We strengthen and build the capacity of the WASH sector to create an enabling environment that supports sustainable change.
Projects undertaken by Akshayavat :
- WaterShed projects / Water recharging in dry areas
- Improving water table levels through community intervention
- Building of Capex infra like toilets, community centers
- Distribution of material related to women hygiene and cleanliness
- Awareness drives for health, sanitation especially in making peripheral communities aware of govt. programs
- Building of water supply sites like wells, ponds, canals etc. to ensure potable water availability in the community
- Awareness drives in educational Institutes and Social clubs
