Rapid Action Learning

Project-5: Provision of Conducting Rapid Action Learning Workshopss (RAL- National and State level) under Jal Jeevan Mission (Rural Water Supply Program)

The RAL workshop intends to harvest learning from on-going practice and innovations on the ground under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and make it available to a wide range of practitioners for their wider dissemination, application and replication across different states and districts. The process has been designed to encourage and enable government practitioners to identify their good practices, innovations and lessons learnt and to share these horizontally peer-to-peer and between levels, drawing practical lessons from each other across districts/states. To identify successful practices and using methods of rapid sharing, learning, adopting and adapting of these for local needs and conditions will be the key to achieving the goals of JJM. With this in mind IDS with support fom UNOPS (United Nations Office for project Services) is convening and organizing state workshops in Rajasthan, Assam, UP and Tamil Nadu. It will bring districts of the concerned state together (all with different levels of success) to share and learn insights, innovations and successful practices for changing behaviors and establishing and sustaining JJM to reach out to more and more families for FHTC.

AIM & OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOPS

The overriding aim is to provide the states/districts with ideas and means to accelerate progress towards Jal Jeevan Mission with main focus on quality and sustainability. To this end, the workshop is designed:

To learn from experiences and to provide opportunities for sharing insights, innovations and successful practices, including methods, processes and approaches developed in the districts under JJM.

To include good practices collected from the workshop in the Living Sourcebook and make these accessible for adoption and/or adaptation as desired by other States and Districts nation-wide.

To review practical lessons learnt and to integrate that learning into district specific action plans.

To identify gaps in knowledge and priorities for action learning, and to enable the State to decide on any follow up actions they may wish to undertake.