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services through sustainable approaches. The Trusts’ core KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
focus is on promoting sustainable water management
through mitigation and adaptation strategies, with a focus • Initialising collaborations with state governments of
on climate change. Further, the Trusts believe in promoting Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh,
equal participation of women in water related activities Maharashtra, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh,
and empowering them in overall water management. Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Punjab, Mizoram, and
Nagaland for implementing community-centric safe
Key objectives include drinking water programmes under the scope of the
centre’s Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), which promises to
• Providing safe drinking water to every household, by provide safe, assured, and adequate drinking water to all
creating a user-centric and sustainable drinking water rural households across the country by 2024.
service delivery mechanism.
• Building sectoral capabilities through training and
• Addressing water quality challenges through innovative, capacity-building interventions for project teams. Over
context-specific and a ordable solutions at the 250 personnel from the Trusts and associate
community and household levels. organisations engaged in the JJM and Springshed
programmes were trained on the planning,
• Promoting water security approaches to make implementation, and operations & maintenance aspects
communities self-reliant for their water needs (drinking, of the project. Key thrust areas included mobilisation of
domestic, and agricultural). the community through a participatory approach to
develop strong village action plans at the village level,
• Creating awareness among stakeholders through social- monitoring and surveillance of water quality, and the
behavioural change communication development of water security plans to ensure
year-round water availability, along with improved
• Providing information and sustainable solutions across service delivery.
the value chain to promote safe and e ective menstrual
hygiene management. • Developing a comprehensive gender strategy and
operational plan to enhance
• Building a resilient ecosystem women’s engagement in JJM,
by developing an institutional including playing an important
structure and social capital. role at various stages of
programme implementation.
Further, monitoring indicators
were designed to gauge the
progress and impact of this
gender-balanced approach.
• Piloting the Internet of Things
(IoT) in rural settings, given
that the changing IT
landscape can help fulfil the
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