Developed by Dehradun Nagar Nigam with technical support of Feedback Foundation.
A study has been conducted on the SWM in Uttarakhand by Dr. Anita Joshi, Department of B. Ed, M. B. Govt. P. G. College Haldwani, Nainital, Uttarakhand India and Mr. Neeraj Joshi, Directorate of Urban Development, Uttarakhand India. According to them the decentralized method is economically sustainable and can be adopted by Urban Local Bodies of Uttarakhand for Solid Waste Management process. This project can turn out to be a role model for other Urban Local Bodies all over India.

I am Udita, I was born in Sanjay Camp and I live here with my small family. We used to finish our daily chores of cooking and cleaning and then spend time gossiping as we had nothing better to do. Then, the team from Feedback Foundation (FF) started the school with Sewa Bharti to teach the children of our camp and also started few activities with the women of the camp, that is how we came to know about the self-help group (SHG).

“I am a resident of Shastri Camp, my name is Irshad Ali Shastri and I have been living in this Camp since last 35 to 40 years. There were lots of problems in the camp, the most important being, people of the camp defecating in the open and dumping garbage in and around the camp, making the camp very unhygienic. When the FF team came to our camp, they awakened the people in the camp, to the fact that our camp can also become open defecation free.

My visit to Bhond has become a part of my cherished memories. This charming little village has transformed itself into a model village within 4 years. I was fortunate enough to get an opportunity to get a sneak-peek into the life of its people. I am thankful to Feedback Foundation facilitators and soldiers namely, Vinod Kumar, Gulshan, Biswajeet who effortlessly coordinated and tirelessly supported us during our visit to the village till the very end of our trip. Last but not least, we are thankful to our driver, Charan Singh who took us to visit the village.

Feedback Foundation Charitable Trust (FF) is a leading provider of sustainable sanitation solutions across Rural and Urban India and has experience in making urban communities ‘No Open Waste’ on a sustainable basis. Suar NPP engaged FF for Integrated Solid Waste Management solutions, FF team then visited the NPP along with representatives from Suar NPP and potential wards for SWM were selected. The site near Valmiki Basti in Ward no 1 was selected for development of a waste management unit, ‘Sanitation Park’ for catering to the waste generated in adjacent 4 wards (Ward nos. 1, 6, 12 and 14).

Initiating behavioral change work through Community approach in allotted Zones of Aurangabad. Feedback Foundation (FF) and Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) Maharashtra, are implementing the ‘No Open Waste’ (NOW) project. The Pilot Project will spread awareness among citizens on segregating and recycling waste, bringing about a change in mindset, and on the other hand, it will support the Municipal Corporation in streamlining waste collection mechanisms. The objective is to catalyze behaviour change as well as bring citizens and the government to work together in tackling the problem of waste and creating a sustainable environment for everyone.

Salmanpara Govt LPS School is situated under Zikzak block in West Garo Hills in Meghalaya. It is amongst some remote blocks under Zikzak district with difficult roads. There are about 100 students and three teachers in the school. Earlier, there were two toilets in the school and were primarily used by the teachers and the children had to go out in the open. Team Feedback Foundation, along with the State Coordinator, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and a chosen local motivator first visited the school on 20 Oct, 2016 and explained the purpose of their visit i.e. making the school Open Defecation Free. Subsequently, the team carried out the triggering activity on 5 July, 2017 in the presence of all the teachers.

Making 24 slums under Bhubaneswar Town Centre District (BTCD) area in Bhubaneswar ODF.

Total number of slums – 24
Total number of households – around 5700

Creating Open Defecation Free Slums in BTCD areas followed by close monitoring of the community over a period of six months.

Institutional strengthening and capacity building of stakeholders at all levels and municipality service providers including elected leaders, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) at grass-root levels etc.

Long-term Objective – Demonstrated improvement in the quality of life of the residents of Sonshi, Goa by working together to create ‘an ideal habitat’.

The Project is being implemented in two phases: Phase 1 was undertaken from 2012-2014.Phase 2 was undertaken in 2017 and is ongoing.

As part of this, around 100 households need to be rehabilitated.

Working to transform Bhond Village in Mewat (Nuh District) of Haryana into a model village for sustainable development and social inclusion.

Feedback Foundation is working across Environmental Sanitation, Institutional Strengthening, Literacy and Education, Infrastructure Development, Health and Nutrition, Employability and Women Empowerment and Drinking Water Supply.  The Bhond village is the first village in the country to be bestowed with the ‘Green Village Gold Rating’!

Labangi is a small village in Balang Gram Panchayat of Angul block. The Gram Panchayat including the village lies in Satkosia Tiger Reserve which forest area. To approach the village, one has to drive through kuccha road for 5 KM on a hilly terrain and then walk for around 250 metersThe village is a remote village of GP and usually no government programme is being implemented by them.The households in the village are scattered and they are cut off from electricity connection as well. Almost every household in the village has solar panel which has provision of lighting 2 blubs. That facility also gets disrupted during rainy season.

A bespectacled lady dressed in sober, pastel-hued sari, carrying a long handbag, driving her scooty in the morning when people of her age generally sit back and enjoy a steaming cup of tea, leisurely perusing the newspapers - this is Ms.Sulochana Mukhedaker, a retired lecturer from junior college-Nanded. She is a lady with a mission, dedicated to the cause of a sanitized & Hygienic Nanded. She enthuastically shows her preserved documents that dates back to 1995 when there was a program detailing how the city of Bengaluru (then Banglore) is on the way to be a sanitized and hygienic city. This ignited the desire in Ms.Mukhedaker to see her Nanded as a Clean city.

Kisna Saikia, 9 is a child studying in class 4 of 757 Lower Primary School in Hollophukhan GP of Sivasagar district of Assam. She is a resident of Dhamdhuli village of the GP and stays with her mother, Grandmother and Aunt. She participated in school triggering at Ligribari Primary School during the month of February 2015 and emerged as quick learner by responding to multiple questions of the facilitators. She also inquisitively asked advantages of safe hygienic practices and reiterated in front of entire students. Post school triggering, she narrated the key learning at the school and demonstrated the safe hand washing practices to other household members.

Ms. Saraswati Pradhan is a resident of Nugaon village of Chendiapada Gram Panchayat of Angul block in state of Odisha. She has a household size of 4 members .She is housewife and also an active member of a SHG. The household compound is shared by 2 families, including her and her brother in law. She along with her entire family used to defecate in open prior to intervention.