Day 4 of Regional WASH Training 2013

Day 4 of Regional WASH Training began with Mr. Kiran Darnal's presentation on "Water Safety Plans as Practiced in Nepal".

Mr. Darnal during the first session

The plan, he elucidated, includes various activities that would assess and manage risk involved in all the phases from catchment to consumer. He emphasized that consistency in the service is the domain of Water Safety Plan. Then, he presented on the objectives of WSPs and the ways to achieve the objectives.

The second lecture was delivered by Dr. Sumitra Amatya. (the detail of lecture will be uploaded soon)

Dr. Amatya during her session

The third lecture to be delivered by Mr. Bhusan Tuladhar could not be done due to his unavailability. In his absence Mr. Khagendra Acharya from the Department of Languages and Mass Communication, KU. delivered his lecture on "Communication Strategy for WASH Practitioners". Mr. Acharya's lecture was followed by Mr. Kabir Das Rajbhandari's presentation on Sanitation Marketing.

Mr. Acharya delivering lecture

Instructing the participants on various aspects of sanitation marketing, he focused on the importance of making it affordable to consumers. He also stated that strengthening supply chain can make marketing easier.

Mr. Raj Bhandari in action

He concluded that NGO-led marketing to Enterprise-led promotion.This, however, he said does not mean negating the role of NGO and other stakeholders who have been working in existing scenario.