Activities within the grant:

The project is towards a nine-month planning phase (under Phase 3), implemented by the abovesaid three organisations, covering a total of 1,624 households (9,864 beneficiaries), spread over 30 villages. HGVS proposes to cover 10 villages, spread across Munsyari and Berinag blocks of Pithoragarh district, targeting 587 households (3,239 beneficiaries). Similarly, HIHT proposes to cover 10 villages spread across Chamba and Jaunpur blocks of Tehri Garhwal district, reaching out to 688 households (4,436 beneficiaries). Finally, SATHI will cover 10 villages spread across Pachhad and Shillai blocks of Sirmour district in Himachal Pradesh. A total of 249 households (1,789 beneficiaries) are expected to be targeted.

Key components of the project include:

	Community development activities
	Hygiene and sanitation awareness (HESA)
	Women development interventions
	Engineering activities
	Process documentation and constituting district level coordination committee (DLCC).

It is expected that impact of this phase will be similar to the earlier phases. To elaborate:

	Current water availability is expected to increase from between 4 and 15lpcd to 40lpcd at public stand posts and 70lpcd for individual connections
	Currently, on an average, women spend 5.74 hours per household per day collecting drinking water, which would come down to less than an hour per day
	Currently, only 69 per cent of children are immunised and this should reach 85 per cent by the end of the planning phase and 100 per cent by the end of the implementation phase
	The latrine coverage, which is currently on an average 45 per cent (in the case of ten villages covered by SATHI, the percentage is 59), is expected to reach 100 per cent by the end of the implementation phase
	At present, healthy practices such as hand washing are only observed by 19 per cent of the population. This is expected to rise to 50 per cent by the end of the planning phase and would be 100 per cent by the end of the implementation phase. Similarly in the case of villages covered by SATHI, only 34 per cent families are aware about the benefits of safe drinking water and 17 per cent have access to proper water drainage systems, which is expected to rise up to 90 per cent by the end of the implementing phase. A separate baseline data collection exercise is scheduled to be undertaken at the inception of the planning phase and impact will be assessed against the same at the end of the project.