An Example Sample Project Proposal on the Promotion of Hygiene and Sanitation

Background and Justification of the Project

The rationale of this project comes from the poor living standard of the people from the project area due to many problems related to poor sanitation and hygiene among the community members.

The municipal council conducted the survey to assess the hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene at home and in public places. The results indicated high waterborne diseases among the community members. Such diseases were; Malaria, which affected 10307 persons, Respiratory diseases, which affected 5084 persons, UTI, which affected 4387, Diarrhea, which affected 2464 and intestinal worms affected 1951 persons. Also, the leading diseases for children under five are Malaria, which affects 4342 children, Urinary infection which affects 2762, Diarrhea which affects 1264 children, UTI which affects 1230 children; pneumonia which affects 749 and intestinal worms, which affects 623.

This research explained that there is a need to provide education in the community about hygiene and sanitation, household drinking, hand washing, and waste management to community members. The research also indicated poor knowledge on government water policy and by low that governs sanitation and hygiene in the community. Hence, there is a need to promote awareness on water policy and by-laws related to sanitation and hygiene, hence reducing infectious diseases and improving people’s living standards.

Kigoma Ujiji Municipality has 42,780 households. Among these, 18,333 households have latrines, and 4,808 households have hand wash facilities. Kigoma Ujiji Municipality produces 174 tons of solid waste per day, and its capacity to collect the solid waste is 30 tons per day (Kigoma Ujiji Report 2016)

The sanitation and hygiene among pupils and students of schools are also poor. The Kigoma Ujiji report indicated that; there are 45 primary schools, with 45,169 pupils; among these, 22,650 are male and 22.519 are female). The required drop holes are 3156; among these the present drop holes are 392 and 2764 are missing. The number of teachers is 919 (410 are male and 509 are female). The required drop holes are 89 while the present are 54 and the missing drop holes are 35.

Kigoma/Ujiji Council is among of the least developed Towns in the country.  The per capital income is estimated to be Tshs. 510,000 (Kigoma Ujiji Municipality report, 2016).  Kigoma Ujiji lack essential activities to enhance income. E.g. there is no cash crops, industries, technical and entrepreneurship Capacity.

The major economic activities are: –

• Fishing
• Trading
• Small scale Agriculture
• Small scale industries

Peasants allocated in the peri-urban of the Municipal practice agricultural activities at low level.  The middle- and high-income earners engage in fishing, small scale industries, dairy and trading.  The major constraints to these activities are lack of entrepreneurship skills.

The local government has been working to improve hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash, waste management at home and public places. However, it has been done in general services to community members which had less impact to the project area due to location, level of education of the people and environment constraints. All these require special attention to alleviate the problem of poor sanitation and hygiene of the people.

The target people are from four wards of Kigoma Ujiji mucipality. The wards have higher population and poor sanitation and hygiene to Kigoma Ujiji municipality. The community members are extremely poor, which aggravates the people’s life situation. KACON will collaborate with the local government authority to implement the project. Together they will provide education to community members about hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, wash hand, and waste management at home and public places. The District Health Officer will be among the project facilitators. They will provide knowledge about the government local plans for, sanitation and hygiene in the district, water policy and by-laws (district level) about sanitation and hygiene. The KACON will lead and organize the project and provide human personnel. The KACON will involve local government for implementation of the project.

General Objective

The overall aim of the project is to improve the quality of life of community members through the promotion of hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand washing and waste management at the household level, primary and secondary schools and public places in Kigoma Ujiji municipality.

Specific Objectives

• To raise awareness and empower community members through the promotion of hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene at home and public places.
• To raise awareness on sanitation and hygiene among primary and secondary schools in Kigoma Ujiji municipality.
• To enhance community participation in promotion of sanitation and hygiene in Kigoma Ujiji municipality.
• To increase the implementation rate of government water policy and by-laws on sanitation and hygiene.
• to raise awareness on solid waste management among communities and solid waste collectors.

Project Activities and Work Plan

• To conduct training to local and religious leaders, teachers, CCAs from 4 wards on awareness on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand washing and waste management. A total of 60 persons will be invited, 15 from each ward. They will be provided with refreshments and transport.
• To conduct a baseline survey to collect data about the current situation about hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management at the family and public places in the project area. 70 persons will collect data for four days they will be oriented to activity before going to the field for data collection.
• To conduct four open mass campaigns against hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in all four wards.
• To provide allowances to community change agents (CCAs) who will visit house to house for community sensitization on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the project area.
• To prepare 14 bunners and place them at the public centers in project areas. And latrine wall painting with artwork messages that sensitize the promotion of hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the community schools and public places.
• To increase community awareness on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the project area through public announcement and community participation.
• To increase community awareness on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the project area through media and radio.
• To conduct capacity building for school clubs on hygiene and sanitation, menstral hygiene, disability, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the project area, 19 schools will be reached (14 primary schools and 5 secondary schools)
• To conduct a forum of school competition on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste management in the project area (SWASH). And commemorate the national day of use of latrine at district level where 2000 persons will be reached. This activity will also be used to disseminate education to the community members. The prizes and gifts will be provided to first three schools and families in the promotion of hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in the project area.
• To conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project, the joint supervision will be conducted (KACON staff and Municipality staff).

Project Implementation and Management Plan

• Expected Project Results
• Increased awareness of community members on hygiene and sanitation, household drinking
• water, hand wash and waste management at home and public places.
• Improved hygiene and sanitation, household drinking water, hand wash and waste
• management among pupils and students and teachers in primary and secondary schools in Kigoma Ujiji Municipality.
• Enhanced community participation on hygiene and sanitation of household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene.
• Increased the implementation rate of government water policy and by laws on sanitation and hygiene.
• Reduced water born disease among community members in the project area.
• Improved schools’ attendance and academic performance among pupils and students in the project area.
• Availability of menstrual facilities at primary and secondary schools
• Availability of facilities for people with disabilities at primary and secondary schools

Project Beneficiaries

• Direct beneficiaries
  • The direct beneficiary is about 83,936 persons from four wards in the project area.
  • The direct beneficiaries include: all community members from the project area, 14 primary schools and 5 secondary schools from project area.
  • Pupils and students school attendance will be improved hence increase of academic performance.
  • The reduction of water born disease and mortality rate among community members will contribute to use of funds for other development activities.
  • Kigoma water and sewage supply (KUWASA) will benefits from low cost of water treatment due to the water and environment pollution will be reduced.
  • Increased school attendance among pupils during menstrual period.
  • Availability of infrastructure for people with disability (pupils).

Indirect beneficiaries

The indirect beneficiaries are the people from Kigoma Ujiji municipality about 239,146 people of which 115,640 are males and 123,507 are females. Other indirect beneficiaries are people from Kigoma region and neighbor’s regions/ countries where local radio is reachable, these are, Tabora, Shinyanga (Regions) Burundi, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (countries).

Project Implementation and Work Plan

The project will be implemented by the KACON in collaboration with local government, the Kigoma Ujiji Municipality council. KACON will organize, supervise the project operations and will provide facilitators. The Managing Director of the KACON will lead the project operation.

Kigoma Ujiji municipality will be involved during implementation, KACON will involve Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council and beneficiaries to conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project.

The local leaders, Para-social workers (CCAs), will include persons from four wards of Kigoma Ujiji municipality. The trained persons will continue to disseminate education to their community members at ward and family level after the accomplishment of the project.

Project Monitoring and Evaluation

KACON and Kigoma district together with representative of beneficiaries will conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project. The informative evaluation will be conducted to assess the progress and implementation of the project, the report will be produced, summative evaluation will be conducted to assess the results of the implemented activities.

KACON will lead the project; Managing Director will be responsible for leading the team, supervise the activity and compile the report. For every monitoring and evaluation, the report will be produced.

The Approaches of the Project

The methodology which will be used during the implementation is to disseminate the message; community participation, Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). This is innovative methodology for community mobilization to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free). This methodology insisted to provide education to the community rather than provision of toilets.

The CLTS focuses on the behavioral change to ensure real and sustainable improvements, it mostly focus on community mobilization instead of hardware, and shifting the focus from toilet construction for individual households to the creation of open defecation-free villages. By raising awareness that as long as even a minority continues to defecate in the open everyone is at risk of disease, CLTS triggers the community’s desire for collective change, push people into action and encourages innovation, mutual support and appropriate local solutions, thus leading to greater ownership and sustainability.