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Vision
The vision for the Water and Sanitation Sector is to improve the quality of life of people of the earthquake affected areas by reducing risks to the public health through provision of equitable, sustainable and reliable supply of sufficient quantity of safe water and appropriate sanitation services. |
Objectives
The specific objectives are:
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Scope
All public and community-owned schemes damaged or destroyed by the earthquake of 08 October 2005 and will be rehabilitated/ reconstructed/upgraded on the basis of the following priority criteria
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Any affected scheme which may have been left out due to error or omission or lack of information will be rehabilitated or reconstructed subject to intimation of such scheme to ERRA/SERRA and approval thereof. Additional development schemes will not be allowed from the funds made available for implementation of the Strategy. “Replacement schemes”, however, will be constructed for relocated settlements or in lieu of the destroyed schemes. In order to ensure that only qualified schemes are taken up for rehabilitation or reconstruction and to ascertain the extent of damages and refine cost estimates and design parameters, schemes included in Appendices A and B will be assessed in-depth by the Line Departments, District Reconstruction Unit (DRU) or Development Partners and Sponsors prior to initiation of rehabilitation and reconstruction work. |
Guiding Principles
The following guiding principles will be used to realize water and sanitation sector objectives:Improved disaster preparedness and service delivery: Water and sanitation facilities will be built better and duly upgraded for disaster preparedness and mitigation. This will be achieved through the following measures:
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Community participation
Target communities, especially women, will be involved in site selection, planning, design, implementation, monitoring and management of the schemes to promote community ownership and empowerment as well as sustainability. Active involvement of CBOs and user groups will be promoted in design and implementation of the community operated schemes.
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Inter-sectoral approach
Water and sanitation will be integrated in related sectoral strategies of SERRA, especially Housing, Education, Health and Environment. To this end:
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