Gramalaya was established in 1987 with a group of committed youths in the field of rural development. Gramalaya has got its legal entity by registering under the Indian Trust Act of 1882 with a registration No.72/87 on 11.6.1987. http://www.gramalaya.in/index.php http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:34 +0530 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:26 +0530 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) unlicensed version http://www.feedforall.com http://www.gramalaya.in/images/gramalaya_tirchy.jpg http://www.gramalaya.in/index.php Gramalaya was established in 1987 with a group of committed youths in the field of rural development. 144 22 noGramalaya was established in 1987 with a group of committed youths in the field of rural development. Gramalaya has got its legal entity by registering under the Indian Trust Act of 1882 with a registration No.72/87 on 11.6.1987. Water.org in association with PepsiCo Foundation supported Gramalaya for providing 10,400 household water connections and 9,350 individual toilet facilities in the selected villages of 6 Blocks in Tiruchirappalli District. In this project, Gramalaya would work for water and sanitation coverage in 100 villages for three years period. The first and second year of the project will ensure replicable models in 26 intensive villages where 100% water and sanitation facilities will be achieved. http://www.gramalaya.in/waterOrg_Project.php 41710A5D-F2A9-450F-8C32-E907E40209A1 Thu, 8 Feb 2010 13:27:57 +0530 In this section we have gathered factsheets, information sheets and executive summaries of major reports that Gramalaya members and partners have published to provide the press and the public with accurate and succinct information on various issues related to freshwater. http://www.gramalaya.in/news_events.php 41710A5D-F2A9-450F-8C32-E907E40209A1 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:27:57 +0530 class, gender and region. http://www.gramalaya.in/Cbo_wave.php 432A5866-D5C9-41CE-919C-2F9975138E71 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:27:35 +0530 Gramalaya has established a Toilet Technology cum Training Centre at its rural headquarters at Kolakudipatti village in Thottiam block in Tiruchi district. The Toilet technology center was established with the funding support from Water Partners International, USA as a part of its WATSAN project. The centre has display various models of toilets which could be used in the total Sanitation campaign in rural areas including eco-san models. The centre will if necessary provide training for representatives and field staff of Non Governmental Organisations and Government officials including block co-ordinators involved in the TSC programme. http://www.gramalaya.in/toilet_technology_training.php 4731FBBB-6006-41DE-9DCA-C4771D5CCA5B Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:27:10 +0530 A documentation centre is functioning at the administrative office of Gramalaya at Thillai Nagar situated at the heart of Tiruchirappalli City. The documentation centre is equipped with books, periodicals, magazines and resource books in various themes such as water, sanitation, community development, micro-credit and appropriate technology. The centre is provided with wifi internet connectivity, computers, printers, photocopier, audio-visual aids and video films, compact discs on different subjects for conducting small group meetings and training programs. http://www.gramalaya.in/publications_news.php E4FDC581-D1C6-49A8-BF86-F3E8ABB0FF44 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:26:40 +0530 The solid waste management project and the plastic recycling unit established by the Thottiyam Town panchayat in Tiruchirappalli District of Tamil Nadu is one of the viable models where the organic wastes are converted as vermi-compost. The vermi-compost produced at this compost yard is purchased by the local farmers for banana cultivation and paddy fields. The one acre compost yard is housing vermi-compost sheds, waste storage structures, dumping yard for natural decompose with a recreation centre. http://www.gramalaya.in/solid_waste_management.php 943EDE76-9080-4EA8-9BCB-378CB739A8B1 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:26:12 +0530 Gramalaya is advocating different low-cost toilet models which are affordable and acceptable by the local communities depending upon the local situation and willingness of the people. The past 20 years of experience by Gramalaya in the field of sanitation in different regions like rural, urban, tribal and coastal regions gave many successfully field tested models. Gramalaya has constructed leach-pit toilets and pit latrines using locally available materials. But, in some of the operational areas of Gramalaya, like in the tsunami affected areas of coastal region, Gramalaya introduced eco-san toilets. The eco-san toilets are welcomed by the fishermen communities in Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu. http://www.gramalaya.in/eco_toilets.php DDD0696B-5080-439A-92E5-D3269AA951E9 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:25:47 +0530 The community toilets constructed under Water Aid-Gramalaya project and by the local authorities in Tiruchi City Corporation are maintained by SHE - Teams (Sanitation and Hygiene Education - Team)/ AWASH Committees formed by the women members of self-help group of the respective slums. The SHE – Team/AWASH looks after the upkeep and maintenance of the Community toilets constructed in their slum. Every user is issued a 50 paise token allowing him/her to use the toilet. A woman from the self-help group collects the money from users and closes the accounts every 12 hours. The accounts contain details on the number of users and money collected. During nights between 8 p.m. http://www.gramalaya.in/community_managed_toilets.php 867E2958-244A-44CD-B1F8-E4D99351FF94 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:24:54 +0530 The successful intervention in the rural, urban and coastal areas (tsunami affected fishermen villages) during the last two decades, innovations like child friendly toilets, community managed pay and use toilets systems, school health intervention, toilet technology park, introduction of water saving toilet pans for rural and baby pans, effective documentation system led Gramalaya to be one of the national and international resource organizations for water and sanitation activities. As a result of the 15 years of hard work and commitment to the vision, Gramalaya is visited every month, weekly by many international organizations, national organizations, Government departments, NGOs, researchers and academicians. http://www.gramalaya.in/NIWAS.php 7DBE6EDB-836B-489A-A0C6-644DFE75E4C8 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:24:24 +0530 Gramalaya’s work is focused on implementation and filling critical knowledge gaps in the sector, up scaling community based pro poor approaches through our program and advocacy work. The 2001 census of India put urban sanitation coverage at 61 percent of the population having access to individual or public toilets. Low coverage of urban sanitation is due to the inability of planned urban development to provide for sanitation access to the urban poor. http://www.gramalaya.in/first_ODF_slum.php 465ED386-9124-46E3-ADFE-E962E2B02BC0 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:24:02 +0530 Annual Report - 2008-2009 Projects Implemented in the Year 2008 – 2009 http://www.gramalaya.in/financial_info.php CCB4382B-6C75-46B5-ADE9-F8E3133CD010 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:23:38 +0530 TRANSIT is a training and technical support provided by the finance department functioning at Gramalaya. Gramalaya is maintaining transparency in all its programmes including the finance, administration, project works completed to its stakeholders and other interested agencies associated. To achieve this, Gramalaya maintains transparency in its projects where accountability to the communities, donors and concerned authorities is ensured. The accounting system of Gramalaya strengthened so to provide up-to-date information to the people at all levels of management including senior staffs at the top-level and to the grassroot-level workers. http://www.gramalaya.in/TRANSIT.php 7DF08635-64A2-4E62-A2F4-BD22EAC50594 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:23:17 +0530 Gramalya recently entered into RWH – Rain water harvesting for drinking purpose. The one year experience in the coastal areas of Nagapattinam and the rural, urban areas of Tiruchirappalli District proved that rain water could be made as drinkable water. Unlike the conventional rain water harvesting for recharging purpose, the project after a series of field testing and technical support from experts in this field successfully implemented this project in the tsunami affected areas of Nagapattinam District, Thottiyam, Thathaiengarpet and Thuraiyur Block of rural areas and in the Tiruchirappalli City Corporation. The rainwater is harvested from the roof of concrete houses, tiled houses and thatched houses and brought down through PVC pipes to the ground-level tanks after filtration. http://www.gramalaya.in/rain_water_harvesting.php 06EFAE89-134B-4C5A-BD02-D328CF997C71 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:22:50 +0530 The project has been devised under the NAMAKKU NAME THITTAM (We, for ourselves) Programme of the Tamilnadu State Government. Apart from intensive health and hygiene education programme with IEC (Information, Education and Communication) components, 25 community latrines were constructed in the selected slums of Tiruchirapalli Corporation. The project area of Gramalaya has been confined to 8 slums in East Boulveward Road from Kalpalayam near Gandhi Market upto East Devadanam near the Cauvery River. Tiruchirapalli City is situated at the heart of Tamil Nadu in South India and was upgraded into a Corporation in 1996. http://www.gramalaya.in/urban_sanitation.php 382EC838-0DD8-4CDD-8B95-00D3CAF5D735 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:22:29 +0530 Gramalaya projects are aimed at stopping open defecation in the intervention areas which include rural and urban slums in Cities. Gramalaya enabled the panchayat to declare India’s first village Thandavampatti as open defecation free (ODF) village in Tiruchirappalli District where the panchayat passed a resolution in the grama sabha meeting. Based on the community led total sanitation approach, Gramalaya so far helped the local communities to declare 56 panchayats as ODF with the assistance from the district officials under Total Sanitation Campaign scheme. There are 200 habitations covered in the ODF panchayats. http://www.gramalaya.in/rural_sanitation.php C48E817B-E08A-45C7-A5B2-42ABA79B6B94 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:22:07 +0530 Water is life is the expression of people, with an emotional outburst, this was felt by the visitors from Water Partners International and PepsiCo foundation of India, as they talked to many beneficiaries who had come to participate in the world water day program, which was held on the 22nd March 2009, at Kolakkudipatti village, near Thottyiam Block of Tiruchirapalli District. http://www.gramalaya.in/worldwaterday2009.php 0CA70707-72C3-4623-8C40-98C26E40E805 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:21:43 +0530 More than 25,000 women inlcuding AWASH representatives in rural Tamil Nadu will campaign for water and sanitation in their villages on the occasion of World Water Day 2010. "This event will be the largest congregation of women in the world who care for water and sanitation. http://www.gramalaya.in/worldwaterday2010.php 7D89F3F3-F193-4EE8-AE2A-E2C76A742602 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:21:09 +0530 This approach document was prepared for the better understanding of governing body members, staff working under different projects of Gramalaya and the donors so as to get more clarity on the project concepts and implementation. It was prepared based on the 20 years experiences of Gramalaya in the field of water sector and feedback from experts, consultants, donors and other stakeholders. The staff to be recruited for the water and sanitation projects would be given orientation on the approaches to different project components including transparency, accountability, exit strategy and sustainability aspects. The inputs from the community based organizations were the major contributing factors for this document. http://www.gramalaya.in/our_approach.php FF4F21AF-8A92-46DF-A7F9-940B4FA33BCA Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:20:41 +0530 Many international organizations, Government and Non-Governmental organizations are working for the promotion of water and sanitation activities in the rural, urban including coastal and tribal areas. Gramalaya is one such organizations working for water and sanitation initiatives in India, especially in Tiruchirappalli region of Tamil Nadu. Gramalaya believes that health development would accelerate the income of the people thereby economic development would take place and economic development would result in social development. Gramalaya’s triad strategy emphasizes health improvement that leads to economic development and economic development help the communities to achieve social development whereby the communities are entrusted, entitled and empowered. http://www.gramalaya.in/triad_strategy.php 8FAFC4F4-AA53-4F9C-9BFA-236E962402F3 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:19:46 +0530 The day every one of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress - Jawaharal Nehur, Former Prime Minister of India. http://www.gramalaya.in/strategyplan.php B43F9BFC-4989-4275-A181-E09568BF1ED6 Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:19:05 +0530 AWASH - Association for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene are formed in each community which would work for the slum improvement/ village improvement. The association is operated with the Animator who are the Peer Educators identified by Gramalaya. http://www.gramalaya.in/aboutAWASH.php 078C165C-7A89-4144-80C4-A0CD72648C85 Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:38:05 +0530 Gramalaya ensures that all its projects reflect the above core values that encourage people to be emancipated from the cycle of poverty and deprivation through participation. Thus, communities are entrusted to work on the project by being part of its implementation process and its continued success. http://www.gramalaya.in/aboutus.php D9A9028F-152C-40B2-B74C-DFAB511E96BA Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:17:12 +0530 en-usnonadult