Envisaged under the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project – Phase-II (RUIDP), the Community Action Participation Program (CAPP) is required to mobilise, motivate, and facilitate participation & awareness of the community in project towns. RUIDP has engaged consultants to coordinate efforts between the executing and implementing agencies as well as public, private, and community stakeholders. The implementation arrangement shall include a CAPP consultant being recruited at the project level to assist the Programme Management Unit (PMU )in widespread consultations and public awareness during project implementation. CAPP will have two units i.e. core unit, based out of the central office in Jaipur, and city-level units based in six major project towns. The CAPP consultant will be required to work with city-level NGOs, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders. The project promotes engaging city-based NGOs, where the CAPP consultant will be responsible for coordinating with them and supervising their work.
These consultants will also work on the design and implementation of all community awareness and public participation activities, implementation of gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) action plans, etc. In this regard, we have been engaged in various activities.
Key Activities
- Design and implement CAPP activities in RSTDSP works
- Create awareness of the project and urban management issues
- Motivate and ensure the participation of women in all community activities
- Motivate the end users to apply for water drainage connections and pay the applicable user charges
- Coordinate with each project ULB to procure the ward-wise list of BPL households
- Coordinate with elected representatives, district administration, ULBs, line departments, NGOs, and community to
facilitate project implementation and sustainability - Conduct baseline surveys for the service delivery, socio-economic status, vulnerability, consumer connections, urban service level, etc
- Conduct special campaigns for 100% water and sewerage connection (ensuring the inclusion of poor and vulnerable groups), 100% metering & NRW reduction for zero leakage
- Implement GESI action plan as per approved GESI framework; training on GESI activities
- Training programmes and community-based programmes including poverty alleviation plans as required for the target
communities - Conduct a health and hygiene education programme
- Design and implementation of extensive media-based project awareness programme
- Involve the community, ward committees, educational institutes, CBOs, and other relevant organisations in awareness
campaign - Develop an “exit strategy” to be taken over and carried on by local authorities / NGOs
- Disclose the Entitlement Matrix (EM) of the Resettlement Framework (RF) to affected persons (APs)
