Since the beginnings of its work, IIRD has identified Health and Sanitation as a serious area to be addressed in order to improve living standards of rural people in India. IIRD aims to create awareness and develop the necessary infrastructure to provide people with healthy and sanitary living conditions.
We pursue this goal by providing training sessions and implementing projects and awareness campaigns on sewage treatment, waste and water management, water related diseases prevention and treatment, personal hygienic habits, etc.
Besides acting as an implementing agency, IIRD has been playing an important role as a nodal and consulting agency for governmental and non-governmental institutions by approaching, supporting and engaging the various stakeholders.
By providing access to a safe and adequate water supply and sanitation; training in the improvement of hygiene habits; and training the community to maintain its improved water supply and sanitation facilities through community participation, IIRD has been able to make that much required difference in reduction of water-borne diseases in its areas of intervention.
To increase rural people’s access to health services and sanitation providing the infrastructure, know-how and information needed, by creating infrastructure, raising awareness, developing sense of responsibility, building capacity and engaging the stakeholders.
Program | Area and Time | Supporting Agency | No of lives affected (approx) |
Rural Sanitation Program | All over Rajasthan 1994- 1997 | Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Department (RDPR), Government of Rajasthan | Awareness and training for all NGOs in Rajasthan |
Control of Diarrhea Diseases, Water and Sanitation (CDD Watsan) | Alwar District, Rajasthan , 1998- 1999 | UNICEF | 723 families benefitted under CDD watsan project in Ramgarh&Laxmangarh block |
Child’s Environment: Sanitation Hygiene & Water Supply Project | Alwar District, Rajasthan, 1999- 2000 | UNICEF | 429 families benefitted under this scheme |
Sector Reform Project | Alwar District, Rajasthan, 2000- 2002 | UNICEF, Government of Rajasthan | 650 families benefitted |
Integrated Water, Environment and Sanitation Programme (IWES) | Alwar and Tonk (Rajasthan) 2000-2006 | UNICEF | 41.151 Households in 264 villages benefited |
Aanchal se AanganTak | Jhalrapatan and Khanpur in Jhalawar (Rajasthan, 2006- 2007 | UNICEF, Government of India | 650 families covered in two blocks |
Gram Shakti | Toda Raisingh Block in Tonk district, 2009 | UNICEF | About 31 Gram Panchayats, 138 villages and population of 112642 |
Behaviour Change &Communication | Niwai and Tonk, 2010 | UNICEF | 1296 people benefited in Tonk, about 860 people benefited in Niwai |
Construction of health club | 2010-2012 | MLALAD Jhalawar | Community benefitted of Jhalawar district |
Construction of toilets | 2010-2012 | FINISH |