Maharashtra Rural Water Supply and Sanitation "Jalswarajya" Project

The development objectives of the proposed project are to:

(i) increase rural households' access to improved and sustainable drinking water supply and sanitation services; and

(ii) institutionalize decentralization of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) service delivery to rural local governments and communities. The project has the following components.

Component A: Community Development & Infrastructure Building. This component consists of the following three sub-components : (i) Community Development; (ii) Community Infrastructure; and (iii) Tribal Development Program. This component will consist of the following sub-components. A1: Community Development. A2: Community Infrastructure. A3: Tribal Development Program.

Component B: Institutional strengthening. This component consists of the following four sub-components: (i) Capacity building; (ii) IEC including Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion (SHP); (iii) Monitoring and Learning; and (iv) Project Management. B1: Capacity building. B2: IEC including sanitation, and hygiene promotion. B3: Monitoring and Learning. B4: Project Management.

Component C: Sector Development and Strengthening. C1: Knowledge Management for Policy Support. C2: Water Quality Monitoring.

Component D: Pilot Component. Piloting New Initiatives: The project will support implementation of three pilots, which seem fundamental to improve decentralization and governance of district and village-level institutions; to introduce aquifer-based supply and demand management of water to enhance sustainability of water sources with reference to communities' broad-based priorities for diverse usages of water; and to develop and scale up a model for O&M of water supply facilities that would expand beyond the proposed project. D1: Local Government Incentive Fund. D2: Groundwater Aquifer Management Pilot. D3: O&M Pilot Fund.

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