PROJECT COMPONENTS

Component (A) - Institution Building:

• Setting up and operationalising Kerala Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Agency (KRWSA): This consists of the State level Project Management Unit and 9 district Level Project Management Units. This body is not mandated for direct service delivery but acts as a facilitating and supporting unit to the Grama Panchayaths and Beneficiary Groups.
• Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion (SHP): The long term objective of the SHP strategy is to promote a total health perspective and achieve sustainable and equitable health and hygiene benefits across me community through improvements in water and sanitation services.
• Capacity Building: Capacity Building Initiatives include giving all the major stakeholders capacity through knowledge, skills and management practices in die spheres of technical, institutional, financial and management aspects.
• Grama Panchayath (GP) Strengthening: This includes capacity building, provision of computers, staff for a period of 1 year, and a small fund for flexible innovative work within the GP.

Component B - Community Development & Infrastructure Building

• Community Development Support: This Component provides support to Beneficiary Group in social, technical, and management aspects in planning, implementation and operation management.
• Women's development Program: This component is to ensure effective mobilisation and participation by women. The focus is on both institutional and economic fronts. Institutional Issues relate to mobilising women in facilitating their collective engagement in the development process and providing opportunities for participation in project activities including control over the community facilities created under the project. The economic issues relate to upgrading skills and micro-enterprises.
• Construction of Schemes: This sub - component will finance:

• Drinking Water Schemes: 2500 drinking water schemes, which will, to a greater extent, be piped, water schemes.
• Drainage & Sullage: An average of 1.5 kms of storm- water drains per GP in mid
  and high land regions and 3 kms per GP in the coastal region.
• Latrines: 45,000 new latrines and conversion of 100 unsanitary latrines per GP
• Environmental Sanitation: Compost pits and garbage pits, desilting and rehabilitation of existing ponds and solid waste management systems
• Ground Water Recharge: Treatments like Contour bunding, trenching, rain pits, water harvesting structures, strengthening of bunds and trenches through vegetative measures, terracing, sub- surface dykes, check dams, gabian structures etc.

• Tribal Development Program
  The project recognises that the tribals arc relatively less endowed, compared to their non- tribal counterparts in terms of technical, financial and institutional .capabilities. The project thus finances a separate Tribal Development Program covering the same components for the tribal GPs in these 4 districts. Of the 338 GPs in these districts, 33 GPs have a tribal population and 9 of them have a population of more than 5%. This program will cover 37,500 tribals in these 9 GPs.

Component C - Statewide Sector Development

This component is to provide technical assistance to the Government of Kerala for Statewide planning, development and management of the water sector in a comprehensive and integrated manner. This will include the following sub- components:

• Formulation of Long term sector Policy and Strategic Plan
• Sector Information Management System