EcoEYES: Creating Youth Leaders for Promoting Water & Sanitation in Haryana:

1. To train a group of youth leaders for promoting water and sanitation in Palwal district
2. To facilitate trained youth brigade to function as a change agent for their village and the district
3. To generate evidences on existing rural practices in relation to water borne diseases
4. To leverage on Swachh Bharat activities for facilitating changes in target districts

Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat and Palwal Districts

1. Activities under this project are divided into 3 phases:
2. Phase 1 focuses on developing training curriculum and other tools for screening and recruitment of local youth. This includes development of multi stakeholder engagement framework for nexus planning and community engagements
3. Phase 2 will target training to youths, their pre and post hoc KAPS assessment etc
4. Phase 3 involve collection of Geospatial data for water borne diseases

1. Project will train 102 youth from rural areas on capturing contextual EcoWaSH issues using Geo Media tools.
2. Village, panchayat, block and district EcoWaSH assessment reports prepared by the trained youth will help in the development of district sanitation implementation plan as envisaged in the Swachh Bharat Mission document.
3. Project will provide foundation for conducting formative research on EcoWaSH spatio temporal assessment in relation with water borne diseases.

• Dr. Shikha Dixit

• Mr. Rakesh N Pillai