Nepal: Urban Water Supply and Sanitation (Sector) Project

Water and other urban infrastructure and services / Urban policy, institutional and capacity development - Urban sanitation - Urban water supply

Water supply and sanitation infrastructure in project municipalities improved

Institutional and community capacities strengthened

WASH Plans for all project local bodies will be integrated with recently developed National WASH (N-WASH). Training on NWASH tool completed.

In progress. 12 WUSCs complied with at least 33% of women members.

In progress. Detailed action plan has been prepared and approved. Activities are expected to be completed within the target deadline.

In progress. Final list of selected towns approved by MoWS on 04 May and by ADB on 26 May. Feasibility studies and Detailed Designs recently started. Activities are expected to be completed within the target deadline.

In progress. Project WUAs and project municipalities started trainings on capacity buiding programs.

In progress. A total of 15,773 participants, of which 7,362 4,103 (46.67%) are women, participated in the awareness raising activities on water conservation and sustainable hygiene behavior.

Ongoing. Design of remaining subprojects are taking in consideration climate and disaster risks.

Ongoing. Design of remaining subprojects are taking in consideration climate and disaster risks.

Not yet due. 12 water supply contracts are awarded and physical works are in progress. A total of 786 km pipes is designed to be installed in 12 towns.

Not yet due. 12 water supply contracts are awarded and physical works are in progress. All the 12 water supply systems are designed to have treatment capacity of more than 0.6 million liters per day.

Not yet due. 12 water supply contracts are awarded and physical works are in progress. About 32,000 households in these 12 towns will be benefitted.

1,705 toilets are being constructed in 9 towns with 344 completed and being used.

15 public toilets are proposed in 9 towns, nine are under construction.

One (Charikot) is under evaluation, and the procurement process of the other will be initiated soon (within 15 May 2021).

43 kms of storm water drainage in two towns (Tikapur and Katahariya) is being constructed.

P,O will prepare a stakeholder communication strategy and submit to ADB for review by the end of the first quarter after loan effectiveness. The strategy will follow ADB's Public Communications Policy 2011. PMO will ensure that all communication is in language understood by the specific audience. The stakeholder communication strategy will be based on a stakeholder analysis and will incorporate the following components:

(i) Compilation of stakeholder communication activities undertaken so far, including gender-disaggregated data on participants, minutes of meetings and photographs;

(ii) role of the PMO, RPMOs in coordinating and communicating with government of institutional stakeholders;

(iii) public communication plan for disseminating project related information (a) to the general public, particularly those who may be impacted by the proposed projects; (b) to indigenous peoples' groups who may be benefited or affected by the proposed projects; (c) to communities facing loss of common property resources; and (d) to vulnerable groups, particularly regarding the project's social inclusion policy and how to avail benefits under the project;

(iv) disclosure of social safeguards and environment monitoring reports and any updated resettlement plans and IEEs in the ADB and PMO websites and to affected persons and local non-government organizations/community-based organizations, in local language; and

(v) other communication arrangements at the local community level including through notice boards, newspapers, local radio stations and cable television, etc.