Water And Sanitation Initiatives(RWSSP/SRSP)

To provide sanitation facilities in the affected area, the RWSS Project has been reorganized. SRSP provides technical assistance to facilitate the RWSS project. DFID funded ₤ 385,000 initiatives in Mansehra, Battagram, Kohistan, Shangla and Abbottabad districts to address water and sanitation and Health and hygiene issues. SRSP is the channel through which funding provided for this initiative. The SRSP TA team in RWSSP leads the project. Emergency Response Project was initiated to address water, sanitation, and health/ hygiene promotion in the camps to cover a total of 5,000 families with 100 water schemes and 100 sanitation schemes. Project has intervened in large as well as small camps of sizes ranging from 20-50 tents to camp of over 1000 tents. ERP worked on four activities and achieved considerably by the end of two months.

Water and Sanitation need Assessment for Tent-villages

This is done through a standardised format provided by UNICEF. This format has been translated into Urdu by RWSSP and all partners are now using the same English/Urdu version of the format. It was envisaged that 150 rapid assessments will be carried out in the tented villages.

Execution of Water and Sanitation Schemes at Tent Villages

Once the need is assessed through assessment formats, it is shared on daily basis with the management. Engineers along with surveyors are sent to field and possibilities of constructing dry pit latrines and provision of water to tents is looked out. After working out the lay out and designs, team shares it with Abid Bangish (Engg Support) who directs teams to take actions accordingly. There are two teams (comprising of one WatSan Engineer, two surveyors, one plumber and one carpenter/tailor) in Mansehra whereby each is headed by an RWE. Similar teams are working independently in Abbottabad and Shangla districts. It takes around 3 to 7 days (depending on procurements, weather, labour, size of Tent village etc) to completely cover a Tent village. Once a project is completed, it is handed over to camp management (or locals if there is no formal camp management).

A total of 100 water supply schemes were targeted on the basis that small repairs in the existing water supply systems will be required to supply water to the established camps. A total of 100 sanitation schemes to benefit 5,000 families were planned. No provisions were made for bathhouses, solid waste management and drainage

Linkages

To have effective coordination and also to avoid duplication of various activities being carried out by RWSSP, linkages have been developed with organizations and agencies like OXFAM, NCHD, WHO, UNICEF, Army, Civil Administration and Concern International. RWSSP is also acting as a lead agency in WatSan Cluster working under OCHA-UN.

Decommisioning And Upgrading

With the continued movement of people from the camps, decommissioning of the latrines and bathhouses are on going. So far a total of 76 latrines and 34 bathhouses have been decommissioned from 10 camps (9 in Mansehra, 1 in Balakot).

Haripur camp-structures (258) handed over to the TMA at their request for their use in future activities.

Water And Sanitation Scheme Pictoral
Overview

Execution of Water And Sanitation
Schemes.by SRSP/RWSS