Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project (STIUEIP)/ Community Development Program

Start date: 
January, 2011
End date: 
December, 2014
Beneficiaries: 
9850households
Project District : 
Biratnagar Sub-metropolitan City in Morang District
Client: 
ADB/GoN/STIUEIP/Biratnagar Sub-metropolitan City
Type of project: 
Past_Developmental
Introduction: 

The Government of Nepal has received ADB loan, for the Secondary Towns Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Project (STIUEIP), for Biratnagar, Birgunj and Butwal municipalities. The project aims at improving the living conditions of the people through community led development endeavors, efficient service delivery, good governance, better personal health and environmental sanitation, based on a democratic value system and rights-based approach and inclusive development efforts. This will be achieved through tangible changes in the urban environmental condition with the availability of minimum basic environmental infrastructures and proper community mobilization for the ownership of development processes undertaken locally, under the project activities.

The focus of this urban environmental improvement program is to support reliable, affordable and efficient municipal infrastructures and services delivering mechanism based on the fundamental premises of inclusive development, and through the mobilization of local resources, skills and technology opportunities, all with the direct involvement and mobilization of local citizens groups, clubs and Community Based Organizations (CBOs).

The STIUEIP is being implemented over five years from 2010-2015 supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) through project loans. This project has been executed by MPPW through DUDBC and the respective municipalities are the Implementing Agencies. A project coordination office (PCO) has been established under the DUDBC with project implementation units (PIUs) at municipality levels.

        Biratnagar in the eastern region will receive the STIUEIP project benefits, under the following three project components: 

  • Drainage and Sewerage, 

  • Roads and Lanes, and 

  • Community Development Program.

          The first two components are more or less confined to the core areas of the municipality, and the population living around forms the direct beneficiary groups. The project has also considered certain benefits to the people living in the peripheral areas. They have been reached through different Community Development Program (CDP) interventions.

Objectives: 

 

The CDP has the following components, to be addressed through different interventions by the project;

  • Information dissemination and community mobilization;

  • Implementation of community development program at grass root level;

  • Health and hygiene education;

  • Small-scale facilities and operational support;

  • 3-R promotion at community and household level;

  • Training for skills development and employment generation;

  • Gender equality and social inclusion;

  • General awareness raising activities to be implemented on a municipality-wide scale, whereas the more focused programs are implemented in selected areas according to the criteria developed under the project. The CDP revolves around the thematic areas of social mobilization, health and hygiene improvement of communities and families in Biratnagar.

Key achievements: 

Different relevant reports and publications reviewed and inception report developed. Works started with group consultation, formal and informal meetings held with the stakeholders and community. The project team visited communities and schools in different wards and held formal/informal consultations and interactions.The CDP reviewed CDTA data for drawing inference to identify poor wards and clusters in BSMC, and the information was also triangulated with the concerned community, through TLOs. Interventions started with approaching most deprived people in the deprived clusters of the poorest wards.The program started with CLTS and SLTS approach with collection of information from schools and community using survey formats and PRA tools. A minimum demographic information and Social/Resource maps were developed for schools and communities for data base and program planning. 

Under the total sanitation activities, the beneficiary households have at least developed as follows;

  1. Toilet for the family

  2. Drinking water facility (Personal or public/collective outlets)

  3. Improved personal hygiene

  4. Improved household sanitation

  5. Practice of segregation of household solid waste at source

  6. Participation in 3-R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) campaign

  7. Compost pit for decomposable wastes

  8. Kitchen garden for family consumption

  9. Tree plantation in the compound

  10. Stand for cleaned utensils

  11. Practice of covering drinking water and food items

  12. Closed bathing space

  13. Total immunization coverage for children

  14. PRA/RRA has been completed in 165 TLOs of BSMC;

As a community based organizations (CBOs), the prevailing TLOs were identified for partnership, and the unit for development was a cluster level TLO. The TLOs were found to have advantage of adequate geographical and household coverage. There were 467 TLOs at cluster level, 22 ward level TLOs and one Coordination Committee at apex at the municipal level. The sub-metropolis had considered as 119 TLOs as most deprived in 22 wards.