Health and Sanitation

Rural Development

Health and Sanitation

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.

Objectives:

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