The Government Maharashtra has taken up an initiative to reform selected rural villages affected by natural calamities like drought and other social, economic, livelihood and infrastructural challenges. This initiative has been started by recruiting CMRD Fellows in each GP for village planning, community participation and effective execution of the schemes according to the plan.
SIGMA Foundation in collaboration with UNICEF Maharashtra Field Office has taken up a 12-month long concurrent monitoring, as a third party, for understanding the ground reality of the progress made in the WASH sector in the VSTF supported villages across Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Jalna, Nandurbar, Osmanabad, Pune, Raigad and Washim districts. This report is the outcome of the process to reflect progress of WASH related performance in some of the VSTF villages for which data was collected during July to December 2019 across six districts (Nandurbar and Raigad could not be visited during the first phase due to unforeseen issues).
Sigma Foundation (2020). Status of ODF Sustainability in Maharashtra Sigma Foundation
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