Name: Rfp - For Hiring Of Agency/Consultant/Developer For Development Of Technical Manual On Rejuvenation/Revival/Conservation Of Water Bodies/Farm Ponds
Start: 2023-07-19
End: 2023-07-21
Location: Water For People-India

Organization Details:

Organization Name:

Water For People-India

Country:

India

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Address:

Location: India ,

Contact Details - Email:

indiacareers@waterforpeople.org

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Notice Type

Tender Notice

Bidding Type

Other

Notice No.

69040758

Deadline

2023-07-21

Description

WATER FOR PEOPLE INDIA

Terms of Reference for hiring of agency/consultant/developer for development of Technical Manual on Rejuvenation/Revival/conservation of water bodies/farm ponds
A)              ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
Water For People India initiated its operations in West Bengal in 1996 in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts. Consistent with the global vision and mission, we exist to promote the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments. Our organizational values are accountability, courage, empowerment, partnership, and transparency.

Water For People India programs have been implemented in 28 districts in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Odisha. In all, nearly 2.6 million people have been reached through community drinking water and sanitation, WASH in public institutions and market led approaches to sanitation. By 2030, Water For People India programs aim to directly benefit 10 million people. We aim to build capacities at the district level which will contribute to organizational commitments, thereby indirectly benefitting 14.8 million people. Water For People India implements programs directly and through locally registered non-government organizations.
B)              Sustainable Water Resource Management
Aligned to GOI mission to achieve sustainable water management, Water For People India aims to demonstrate that it is possible to conserve and respect water through a new way of living with the life critical resource i.e., building water-conscious households and communities while implementing water conservation and good governance practices.

Key interventions focus on water conservation and good governance measures, with an integral behaviour change communication effort to promote water consciousness among households (and farmers), increased water availability, and increase in the proportion of greywater (the relatively clean wastewater from baths, sinks, dishwashing, clothes washing, and other household water use except toilets) reused and recycled at the household and community level, as appropriate. The objective is to work with local households, communities, and Panchayati Raj Institutions to identify innovative and effective ways to build a culture of water consciousness.

The behavior change framework that focuses on ‘Measure-Reduce-Reuse’ in the target communities also include participatory management, monitoring, and reporting of water resources, supply and demand management, water use, re-use, wastage, and water quality. Creating such water consciousness will help increase the sustainability and effectiveness of any infrastructure created.
As a part of the larger strategy of Water For People India to support the district administration for building the capacities of the service providers, there is a need to understand the functional domains of water management.
C)              Rejuvenation/Construction of Water Bodies/Farm ponds
Surface water bodies like lakes, ponds, reservoirs, tanks, and rivers were treated as community resources or asset over the centuries. In urban areas also such water bodies played an important role as a source of drinking water, absorption of flood water and a conduit for ground water recharge. They were being nurtured, protected, conserved, and managed by the active participation of the local community without any code of conduct or rule. In turn, these water bodies have been catering to the local human and livestock populations. The introduction of public water supply and ground water development through tube wells and hand pumps in the modern times, coupled with urbanization and industrialization induced pollution, a tectonic shift in the attitude of the people towards these water bodies has been witnessed. Both locals as well as the government have started neglecting this asset and have stopped caring, nurturing, and conserving these community resources. Mushrooming urban, industrial and infrastructure development has further changed the status of these water bodies from community resources to a mere dumping ground or sink for solid wastes, construction debris, domestic sewage, industrial effluents, religious offering etc. resulting in severe degradation in the quality of such resources.

Tanks and water bodies form important surface water storage. The existing ponds and tanks available in the area have been silted over the years and thereby make the water bodies less functional for recharging. Hence, there is urgent need that the water bodies to be de-silted, inlet and outlet be cleaned from obstruction and the bunds are strengthened.

Apart from available rainwater and reuse of treated wastewater, waterbodies (lakes, ponds) especially in rural areas have enormous value in terms of resource provision (for drink

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