Transcript Water and Sanitation - Centre For Environment Education

Water and Sanitation Initiatives
Centre for Environment Education
Range of WatSan initiatives
 With schools, colleges, and youth
 In partnership with communities
 For policy makers, administrators, practitioners
and communities
organizing consultations
bringing innovative models of action through a land
mark publication series (five books in the
Environment and Development series deal with
water)
demonstration projects
Strengthening WatSan Education
through Schools
 Experiential learning packages with a range of print and
AV materials on water, sanitation, solid waste
 Hardware and software (education and outreach)
packages for improving water and sanitation at schools,
and community outreach
 Working with schools in all states of India
 Working with NCERT, the NCTE and several state
education departments and their agencies
 Resource agency for National Green Corps (NGC) in 17
states, reaching more than 50000 schools
WatSan Activities in Eco Clubs
 MoEF supported National
Green Corps supports
formation of Swachchata
Clubs
Stockholm
Junior Water Prize
CEE is the nodal agency
for India
 Infosys Foundation
sponsored water and
science programme in
schools: Developed
manual on water, trained
hundred teachers
Water Quality Monitoring
 Ganga Pollution Awareness
Programme, involving school
children in WQM, was
implemented in 100 schools of
three states, including urban
schools in Hardwar, Kanpur,
Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna,
Kolkata
 Based on the learnings of GPAP,
Pani Parikshan programme was
designed and implemented with
school children in Lucknow
monitoring water quality in the
river Gomti
Outreach through Schools
Anandshala Schools
 Rooftop Rainwater
Harvesting Structures
 Hygiene education
 Community involvement
in quality of education,
through PTAs and VEC
 Teacher training done
with DIETs
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 Rainwater harvesting
 Composting
 Recyling paper
 Polybag weaving
 In 60 schools in the
National Capital Region
with support from ICEF
 Focus on school-staff
families and school
neighbourhood
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 Water Classrooms
with UN Habitat in 4
cities of Madhya
Pradesh
Focus of Community-based Water and
Sanitation initiatives
To initiate community participation
 in creating awareness, education and community
organization
 in planning, monitoring, constructing, operating and
maintaining
 in financial management,
 in community-government interface, and
 in conflict management of water systems and water resource
management structures
This model underscores the importance of community members
operating in a systematic manner to benefit from projects
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Women and children
using innovative communication approaches
for water care, sanitation and hygiene, and
uses
Drinking Water Quality
 Some of the earliest programmes at CEE focused
on drinking water quality:
Educational and training programmes on water-related
health and sanitation issues for fluorosis-affected
villages in Amreli district aimed to increase
understanding and awareness of the issues,
behavioural change, and inputs for management
National Drinking Water Mission-sponsored
Jalapareekshana, involved CBOs in testing their
drinking water for potability and reporting findings to
Public Health authorities*
* primarily in rural areas, but lessons applicable to periurban and urban areas
lacking protected water supply
Communication for Protecting
Water bodies and Aquatic Biodiversity
Ahmedabad Talavdis protection
and restoration campaign, done by
CEE through newspaper articles
and a panel discussion involving
urban managers and professionals
Gangetic Dolphin Conservation
Project
An educational and communication
package is being developed for
school teachers. The programme is
a two-year long one where school
programmes will be conducted with
the help of partner NGOs along river
Ganga in North and Northeast
WatSan at CEE: Opportunities
 CEE is the nodal agency for implementing the UN
Decade for Education for Sustainable Development
in India
 CEE works closely with NCERT, State Education
Depts, and the NGC and cluster programme offer a
large network of schools
 Regional Centres of Expertise will network a range
of formal and community organizations
 CEE has a well spread out all India presence with
several offices located in cities and towns
 Experience of working with communities and local
administrations
Thank you