Catch every drop to eradicate water poverty and water slavery
Raah Foundation
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Non-governmental organization (NGO)
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#SDGAction50393
Description
Background: Over the past decade Raah Foundation through multiple iterations has created a model of rainwater harvesting that works on both supply-side enhancement and regulating the demand side. This model has been replicated multiple times making 110 villages completely water-positive directly impacting over 60,000 people. This has eradicated water poverty and communities are on a virtuous cycle of growth and development. Raah Foundation is committed to replicating this model and making 100 villages water secure by 2030.
Objective: Eradicate Water poverty by making every village and community water secure and positive by catching every drop that falls from the sky and ensuring judicious water usage.
Implementations:
Demand Side: Understand the water demand (drinking for humans & cattle), hygiene & farming. Create a gender-neutral village-level water management committee to regulate water usage.
Supply Side: Map the existing water structures and curate the solution to make the village positive based on the demand for water over the next decade. Enhance the existing structures, repair them, and improve their capacity. Build recharge ponds and percolation pits to improve the groundwater table The water management committee is strengthened through capacity building on water governance, maintenance of rainwater harvesting structures, and created rules and regulations to ensure equitable water usage. The committee meets once a quarter and takes stock of the water levels in all the structures and is taught to take decisions around water usage based on this.
Raah Foundation works for one year closely monitors the situation, participates in all committee meetings, and exits once the short-term impact is seen.
KPI's:
* Water Demand is less than Water available ensuring that the village never runs out of water
* #hours saved by a woman on fetching water and any income generated through these saved hours
* reduction in health-related incidences as now adequate water is available to ensure better hygiene & cleanliness.
* #girls finishing school as they do need to labor for water now.
#farmers growing year-round crops as now enough water is available
#change in the family income due to water
Follow Up:
Once Raah Foundation exits - an annual follow-up is done for five years. For this water management committee submits an annual report and a visit to validate the report is undertaken.
Long-term Impact:
Water scarcity destroys the fabric of the family and compromises everything including the rich indigenous culture. Through our work, we make villages water positive which ensures that communities stay healthy and a virtuous cycle of growth is created in their own villages which ensures cultural continuity and presevation of cultural heritage while improving the rural economy.
Our Water security model has impacted over 60,000 people directly living across 110 villages.
This action will replicate our model to bring water security to 100 more villages by 2030 benefitted additional 75,000 people.
Water underpins all social problems and water availability creates a virtuous cycle of growth and development and has the potential to eradicate poverty and hunger, and improve health and hygiene. Water is, unfortunately, a woman's subject and in absence of water availability in her village she becomes a water slave. Water availability improves her condition and ensures she has enough time to participate in the economic development of the family and the community. She has time and energy for her children and they grow up in a loving caring atmosphere which reduces or eliminates the chances of becoming malnourished. These indigenous communities are small and marginal farmers who grow the monsoon crops of paddy and millets for self-consumption (while this ensures food security it doesn't bring any income from these crops). Once they harvest these crops, after Diwali they start foraging to search for work and lead a life of desperation. Women stay behind and become water slaves. There is no happiness, no family life, and no income locally only poverty, deprivation, and helplessness. This water poverty unfortunately is intergenerational.
Our work on SDG 6 directly and positively impacts SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 5, SDG 8, SDG 10, SDG 13, and SDG 15.
Once the village becomes water secure (year-round water available for human drinking, cattle drinking, hygiene, and farming), women save over 1500 hours per year and use this time to earn an additional income for the family, men start growing year-round crops, and lead a life of dignity, children grow up in love and families practice their unique culture and ensure its continuity.
Our action will bring all the above benefits to another 75,000 people over the next 7 years.
We are also partnering with other organisations and sharing our model of eardicating water poverty and slavery which would ensure a bigger impact.
* Village-level water management committees
* Indigenous Community groups
* Organisations working on water and climate action in the western Indian state of Maharashtra
SDGS & Targets
Goal 1
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
1.1
By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day
1.1.1
Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)
1.2
By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.2.1
Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age
1.2.2
Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions
1.3
Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
1.3.1
Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable
1.4
By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
1.4.1
Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services
1.4.2
Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure
1.5
By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
1.5.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
1.5.2
Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)
1.5.3
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030
1.5.4
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
1.a
Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions
1.a.1
Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income
1.a.2
Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)
1.b
Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions
1.b.1
Pro-poor public social spending
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
6.1
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.1.1
Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
6.2
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.2.1
Proportion of population using (a) safely managed sanitation services and (b) a hand-washing facility with soap and water
6.3
By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.3.1
Proportion of domestic and industrial wastewater flows safely treated
6.3.2
Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality
6.4
6.4.1
Change in water-use efficiency over time
6.4.2
Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources
6.5
By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
6.5.1
Degree of integrated water resources management
6.5.2
Proportion of transboundary basin area with an operational arrangement for water cooperation
6.6
6.6.1
Change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time
6.a
6.a.1
Amount of water- and sanitation-related official development assistance that is part of a government-coordinated spending plan
6.b
Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
6.b.1
Proportion of local administrative units with established and operational policies and procedures for participation of local communities in water and sanitation management
SDG 14 targets covered
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- West Asia
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Indigenous peoples living along the northern western ghats of the Sahyadri mountain ranges in India who are stuck in a vicious cycle of poverty an ddeprivation due to water scarcity.
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Sarika, Dr.