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Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

WASH is the primary domain expertise of Knowledge Links. Specific areas of specialization include: designing, planning, and managing community led interventions in the sector; designing and carrying out sector and diagnostic studies; undertaking reviews and evaluations; training and capacity development; designing and operationalizing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and knowledge management systems.

Knowledge Links carries the experience and expertise to provide customized training and technical assistance services to governments, multi-lateral and bilateral agencies, and non-government organizations for devising innovative approaches to plan, strategize and implement sustainable livelihoods programs with focus on women empowerment within the overall framework of Climate SMART development models based on gender equity and environmental justice.

2024

Post-Program Evaluation of Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Program (MGNF)

Client:
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

2023

Preparation of Vision Document & Capacity Development Strategy of MSFDA -A Participative Exercise

Client:
Maharashtra State Government

2022

Governance Review and Evaluation of Huairou Commission

Client:
Huairou Commission

2022

Training Design and Conducting Capacity Building Training in Uttar Pradesh

Client:
UNOPS

2019-20

Training of Trainers for KRCs and State Govt. in India on ODF Plus under the Clean India Mission for Rural Areas (SBM-G)

Client:
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) – Geneva / WSSCC

2021

Designing and Facilitation of the Three Days Learning, Sharing & Capacity Building Workshop on Jal Jeevan Mission

Client:
UNOPS – Geneva / WSSCC

2029-20

Large Scale Community Mobilization on Implementation of SLWM, MHM, and ODF Plus (ODF - P) under the Programme of MNB, West Bengal

Client:
Office of the District Magistrate & Collector, South 24 Parganas

2019

Behaviour Change Communication business in Solid Waste Management sector using community led total sanitation approach, Noida, UP

Client:
HCL Foundation

2019

Develop Training Module and User Guide for Capacity Building of Swachhagrahis on ODF – S and ODF – Plus

Client:
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) – SCFS / WSSCC

2018-19

WASH Knowledge and Practice Pilot in Kolkata, India

Client:
Splash International
Megan Williams, Splash

2018-19

Engagement for making ODF Murshidabad District and implementation of SLWM and Menstrual Hygiene on CLTS Approach

Client:
Murshidabad Zila Parishad

2018

Initiating behavioral change work through community approach in Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Client:
Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, Aurangabad

2018

Upscaling CATS in 5 districts of Chhattisgarh

Client:
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

2018

Implementation of Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan and Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin

Client:
District Water and Sanitation Committee, Munger

2017

Training of KRCs on Community Approaches to Sanitation (CAS)

Client:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Institute (WASH Institute) for MDWS

2017

Engagement of support organization for open defecation free (ODF) sustainability across the district of Cooch Behar using participatory methodologies focused on collective behaviour change

Client:
Executive Officer, Cooch Behar Zilla Parishad

2017

Training and support for capacity building on CLTS for making ODF in ULBs in Murshidabad

Client:
Office of the District Magistrate, Murshidabad, GOI West Bengal

2016

Capacity building on community approaches to total sanitation (CATS) and inter-personal communication (IPC) for SBM (G) Implementation in Bihar

Client:
UNICEF

2017

Up-scaling CATS in 5 Districts (Dantewada, Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Sarguja, Kawardha) of Chhattisgarh Supported by UNICEF, Raipur

Client:
UNICEF

2014-16

Provide Institutional Strengthening and Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) support services to the Government of West Bengal

Client:
UNICEF West Bengal
Frank Odhiambo, UNICEF Delhi

2016

Designing and Implementation of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Training in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Client:
Save the Children

2016

Resource Agency for CLTS Training

Client:
The World Bank Group

2016

Resource Agency for CLTS Training in 52 Districts of Ganga Bordering

Client:
The World Bank Group

2016

Resource Agency for CLTS Training in UP

Client:
The World Bank Group

2016

Program Management Support Consultancy-RWSSP-LIS

Client:
The World Bank Group

2016

To develop Communication Package on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS)

Client:
UNICEF Country Office

2016

Third Party Monitoring and Assessment of Tata Water Mission

Client:
Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust

2015

Support for Capacity Building on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) for elimination of open defecation across all 27 districts in Chhattisgarh

Client:
UNICEF

2015

Identification, capacity building & monitoring of Support Organization on water and sanitation

Client:
Bihar Technical Assistance Support Team (BTAST) / DFID

2015

To implement CLTS program in Raigarh & Tamnar Blocks of Chhattisgarh, supported by JSPL and Zilla Panchayat, Raigarh

Client:
JSPL Foundation

2014

To provide support to ODF districts through Capacity Building on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation in Chhattisgarh

Client:
Dr. Pratibha Singh, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

2013

Achieving Open Defecation Free(ODF) Status in 6 Blocks of 6 Selected Districts of Odisha Through Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Approach

Client:
Subrath Rath
TMST, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

2012

Study on Social Assessment, including Capacity Building and Communication Strategy

Client:
Rakesh Kumar Ojha
Director, State Project Management Unit
(State water and Sanitation Mission)

2013

CLTS Refresher Training Programs and a Write-shop for the CR-SHIP, Cambodia

Client:
Plan International, Cambodia

2011

Develop a state wide Community Approach to Total Sanitation/CLTS strategy and implement it to reach open defecation free block under Total Sanitation Campaign in Madhya Pradesh’.

Client:
UNICEF, Bhopal

2011-12

Preparation and implementation of City Sanitation Plan (CSP) using CLTS approach and Solid Liquid Waste Management (SLWM), supported by Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation (Maharashtra)

Client:
Nanded Waghala City Muncipal Corporation (NWCMC),
Regional Centre for Urban and Environment Studies (RCUES),
All India Institute of Local Self-Government (AIILSG)

2010

Facilitation of Training Workshop on CLTS and modify the existing guidelines for CLTS

Client:
Department of Rural Health Care,
Ministry of Rural Development
Government Of Cambodia

2010-11

Capacity Building in CLTS approach to scale up TSC in five districts in Maharashtra (Dhule, Nanded, Amravati, Jalana and Aurangabad)

Client:
Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies of
All India Institute for Local Self Governance

2010

Afghanistan National Rural Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Policy and Strategy

Client:
UNICEF, Afghanistan

2006-09

Technical assistance to support community led total sanitation (CLTS) in India (Phase I and II)

Client:
WSP-SA, The World Bank, 55 Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India

2009

Regional strategy development workshops for the implementation of the Drinking Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Component of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)

Client:
Key Resource Centre, Water Supply and Sanitation, GoI,
located at Uttarakhand Academy of Administration, Nainital

2008-09

A multi country research project on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

Client:
Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, UK

2008

Independent evaluation of Government of India’s country wide reform initiative in the rural sanitation sector

Client:
WaterAid UK

2008

Institutionalising community led action for sanitary surveillance (CLASS)

Client:
The World Bank under India Development Marketplace (IDM)

2005-06

support services for GTZ assisted Indo-German The Water Availability-Self Help (WASH)

Client:
GTZ assisted Indo-German

2007-08

Developing ‘Knowledge Management System’ under the World
Bank assisted Jalswarajya Project

Client:
The World Bank

2007

Mid-term review of UNDP and Government of India’s joint country wide initiative called Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

Client:
UNDP, India

2006

Designing a monitoring and evaluation system for the World Bank assisted Swajal Project

Client:
The World Bank

2006

Technical assistance/support for designing and implementing a TSC-IEC strategy for the district based on community led total sanitation (CLTS) approach

Client:
The World Bank

2006

Formative research on identifying ‘Triggers of Behaviour Change in Rural Communities’ and based on the findings prepare a ‘self-help’ manual for internal behaviour changes agents

Client:
The WSP-SA (The World Bank)

2005-06

Providing technical assistance/support to DWSC, block level institutions such as NGOs and CBOs for effective implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign

Client:
District Administration, Bilaspur, Govt. of Chhattisgarh

2002-05

Designing a National level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System for Swajaldhara and TSC programmes of Government of India and field testing across 5 pilot states

Client:
WSP – SA, The World Bank

2008

Andhra Pradesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (APRWSSP), sector assessment study to ‘Develop the capacity building strategy and implementation plan’.

Client:
PSU, APRWSS, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh India

2007-08

“Going to Scale? The Potential of Community – Led Total Sanitation”

Client:
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

2011-12

Formative Research for Hygiene Promotion in the Slums of Bihar

Client:
DFID and Infrastructure Professionals

2011

Community Led Total Sanitation’s Impact Research

Client:
Plan Indonesia

2007-08

Formative Household Research: Point-of-Use Household Water Treatment and Storage Products for Low – and Middle – Income Populations and Andhra Pradesh, India

Client:
RTI International

2007

Document Contribution of PACS program in thematic area: Women Empowerment

Client:
Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS), Supported by DFID UK

2007

Assist in developing selected chapters of Decentralized Risk Management Training manual

Client:
Practical Action (South Asia Programme)

2006

Undertake the logistical arrangement of Duryog Nivaran Regional Policy Dialogue in India with the participation of National Disaster Management

Client:
Practical Action

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Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Post-Program Evaluation of Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Program (MGNF)

Preparation of Vision Document & Capacity Development Strategy of MSFDA -A Participative Exercise

Governance Review and Evaluation of Huairou Commission

Training Design and Conducting Capacity Building Training in Uttar Pradesh

Training of Trainers for KRCs and State Govt. in India on ODF Plus under the Clean India Mission for Rural Areas (SBM-G)

Designing and Facilitation of the Three Days Learning, Sharing & Capacity Building Workshop on Jal Jeevan Mission

Large Scale Community Mobilization on Implementation of SLWM, MHM, and ODF Plus (ODF - P) under the Programme of MNB, West Bengal

Behaviour Change Communication business in Solid Waste Management sector using community led total sanitation approach, Noida, UP

Develop Training Module and User Guide for Capacity Building of Swachhagrahis on ODF – S and ODF – Plus

WASH Knowledge and Practice Pilot in Kolkata, India

Engagement for making ODF Murshidabad District and implementation of SLWM and Menstrual Hygiene on CLTS Approach

Initiating behavioral change work through community approach in Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Upscaling CATS in 5 districts of Chhattisgarh

Implementation of Lohiya Swachh Bihar Abhiyan and Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin

Training of KRCs on Community Approaches to Sanitation (CAS)

Engagement of support organization for open defecation free (ODF) sustainability across the district of Cooch Behar using participatory methodologies focused on collective behaviour change

Training and support for capacity building on CLTS for making ODF in ULBs in Murshidabad

Capacity building on community approaches to total sanitation (CATS) and inter-personal communication (IPC) for SBM (G) Implementation in Bihar

Up-scaling CATS in 5 Districts (Dantewada, Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Sarguja, Kawardha) of Chhattisgarh Supported by UNICEF, Raipur

Provide Institutional Strengthening and Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) support services to the Government of West Bengal

Designing and Implementation of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Training in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Resource Agency for CLTS Training

Resource Agency for CLTS Training in 52 Districts of Ganga Bordering

Resource Agency for CLTS Training in UP

Program Management Support Consultancy-RWSSP-LIS

To develop Communication Package on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS)

Third Party Monitoring and Assessment of Tata Water Mission

Support for Capacity Building on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation (CATS) for elimination of open defecation across all 27 districts in Chhattisgarh

Identification, capacity building & monitoring of Support Organization on water and sanitation

To implement CLTS program in Raigarh & Tamnar Blocks of Chhattisgarh, supported by JSPL and Zilla Panchayat, Raigarh

To provide support to ODF districts through Capacity Building on Community Approaches to Total Sanitation in Chhattisgarh

Achieving Open Defecation Free(ODF) Status in 6 Blocks of 6 Selected Districts of Odisha Through Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Approach

Study on Social Assessment, including Capacity Building and Communication Strategy

CLTS Refresher Training Programs and a Write-shop for the CR-SHIP, Cambodia

Develop a state wide Community Approach to Total Sanitation/CLTS strategy and implement it to reach open defecation free block under Total Sanitation Campaign in Madhya Pradesh’.

Preparation and implementation of City Sanitation Plan (CSP) using CLTS approach and Solid Liquid Waste Management (SLWM), supported by Nanded Waghala Municipal Corporation (Maharashtra)

Facilitation of Training Workshop on CLTS and modify the existing guidelines for CLTS

Capacity Building in CLTS approach to scale up TSC in five districts in Maharashtra (Dhule, Nanded, Amravati, Jalana and Aurangabad)

Afghanistan National Rural Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Policy and Strategy

Technical assistance to support community led total sanitation (CLTS) in India (Phase I and II)

Regional strategy development workshops for the implementation of the Drinking Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Component of the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRDWP)

A multi country research project on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

Independent evaluation of Government of India’s country wide reform initiative in the rural sanitation sector

Institutionalising community led action for sanitary surveillance (CLASS)

support services for GTZ assisted Indo-German The Water Availability-Self Help (WASH)

Developing ‘Knowledge Management System’ under the WorldBank assisted Jalswarajya Project

Mid-term review of UNDP and Government of India’s joint country wide initiative called Disaster Risk Management (DRM)

Designing a monitoring and evaluation system for the World Bank assisted Swajal Project

Technical assistance/support for designing and implementing a TSC-IEC strategy for the district based on community led total sanitation (CLTS) approach

Formative research on identifying ‘Triggers of Behaviour Change in Rural Communities’ and based on the findings prepare a ‘self-help’ manual for internal behaviour changes agents

Providing technical assistance/support to DWSC, block level institutions such as NGOs and CBOs for effective implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign

Designing a National level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System for Swajaldhara and TSC programmes of Government of India and field testing across 5 pilot states

Andhra Pradesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (APRWSSP), sector assessment study to ‘Develop the capacity building strategy and implementation plan’.

“Going to Scale? The Potential of Community – Led Total Sanitation”

Formative Research for Hygiene Promotion in the Slums of Bihar

Community Led Total Sanitation’s Impact Research

Formative Household Research: Point-of-Use Household Water Treatment and Storage Products for Low – and Middle – Income Populations and Andhra Pradesh, India

Document Contribution of PACS program in thematic area: Women Empowerment

Assist in developing selected chapters of Decentralized Risk Management Training manual

Undertake the logistical arrangement of Duryog Nivaran Regional Policy Dialogue in India with the participation of National Disaster Management

Developing ‘Knowledge Management System’ under the World
Bank assisted Jalswarajya Project