International Development Grant
Tube Wells and Sanitation
Project Number: CA-3-S064626002
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $341,190.00
Start Date: January 09, 2009
End Date: March 28, 2013
Duration: 4.2 years
Project Description
The project aims to improve health of the population of 90 villages in the Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh and 90 villages in the Purba Medinipur District of West Bengal. It particularly focuses on decreasing the number of people impacted by water borne diseases. The project is designed to provide access to safe water supply and to sanitation facilities to these beneficiaries as well as to work with them to hand over skills and knowledge that are necessary to maintain the new assets. 150 marginalized rural people benefit from the project. Activities include: (i) drilling and installing tube wells; (ii) monitoring water quality and quantity; (iii) providing health training to the population; (iv) building dry-pit toilets and hand washing stations; (v) creating water and sanitation committees; and (vi) providing training to committee members to enable them to manage monitor and repair the infrastructures. The project is implemented in partnership with two Indian non-governmental organizations: Sarvik Gram Unnayan Sangha and Social Unit for Community Health. This is one of two parts of a project valued at $406 190. The first part has been completed.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (February 2013) include: improvment of the health and well-being of approximately 60 000 people by providing them with clean easily accessible water and 1 000 people with sanitation facilities. Over a four-year period the project successfully installed 196 tubewells. Five schools and 191 villages received tubewells. The project installed 185 EcoSan toilets in five villages. All of the tubewells yielded safe potable water. 191 Village Advisory Committees (VACs) were established to ensure the sustainability of the tubewells and the improvement of the villages. Women were encouraged to take a leadership role on the VACs and approximately 40% of the membership is made up of women. Easy accessibility to clean drinking water especially benefited the women and children since they no longer had to spend hours obtening water from distant water supplies. Because of this women had more time to engage in income-generating activities and children were able to attend school on a more regular basis. Access to clean water health education and improved sanitation have decreased water borne diseases in all areas and improved the overall health of the villagers.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Help a Village Effort
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP