Recommendations at the Dissemination Workshop

Dear Members,

The last day of the Puri Learning event culminated into a Dissemination workshop. The following key recommendations or “way forward” emerged at the end of discussion/deliberations.
 

•    Identify some key themes to prioritize the interventions, and continue with  such cross-learning and sharing activities. First priority is to meet the basic needs of all people including women and children and other vulnerable people.
 

•    Strengthen the village level institutions (village level committees such as education committees, mothers’ committees, panchayat raj system, palli sabha, pani panchayats, etc.)  and local leadership.
 

•    Attitudinal and behavioural change of community with the help of civil societies, grass root organization and other stake holders.
 

•     Improve natural drainage system; provide enough provisions/spaces at intersections of road and drainage systems.  Need to understand the dynamics of Mahanadi delta before any interventions takes place through participatory approach.
 

•    Wider advocacy for replication of model on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. AusAID-UNDP water adaptive pilot models were well recognised by members.
 

•    Allow the local officers to come up with new ideas and support; training institutions need to adopt and incorporate such kind of on field learning exercise  within their training schedule
 

•    Convergence and coordination of government programmes and resources 
 

•    Need to  prepare the village level comprehensive disaster management plan incoporating climate change.
 

•    Prolonged waterlogging consider it as disaster and  map the training needs of the people to adapt to such situations.
 

•    Need to give attention to health of women and children; livelihoods (through skill development, especially owing to high migration of men when women are left to fend for themselves)

- Organizing Team