Social Innovation Studio

Clean Water for a Healthier Anjanapura

Door-to-Door Community Awareness Campaign

Program Design

Capacity Building

Social & Behavior Change

Client:

Community Partner:

We created awareness around water, health and climate change. The Objective was to mobilise the community to take action against climate change.

Increased Awareness

Mindset and Behaviour Shift

Increased Community Agency

Better Health and Wellbeing

Timeline: 4 months

With a goal to raise awareness and build agency in the community, we created

What did we do?

Videos

Booklet

Mobilisation

Outcomes

Our client faced challenges in rallying the community to raise awareness about the dangers of poor water quality, and identifying effective solutions to tackle the problem head-on.

The community struggled with access to clean water, and the little they could find wasn’t safe.

Understanding the Challenge and Community

Videos

We started with immersing ourselves into the daily lives of the community to understand their problem as a whole. We summarized it into informative videos tailored to the community.

Booklet

We created an easy-to-understand digital booklet that would help the community to:

Mobilization

After creating the tools, we conducted a workshop for the local youth to motivate them to create awareness in their own community and become local champions

The result? In two days, the mobilizers tested the solution across 150+ households.

Read and understand their problem

We encouraged them to think

Take action with the provided activity prompts

Our Impact

respondents said the tool helped them understand water, health and climate change better and encouraged them to think and act to solve their concerns

95%

Impact Beyond Numbers

What We Worked On

Our Process

What Followed

Behavior change for water management

Community action for local water access

Better practices to avoid water pollution

Better health

& wellbeing

1 week

Immersion

Understanding the context of the community and the youth cohort through guided interviews. Building ecosystem maps and persona maps.

2 weeks

Explore

and Identify

Through group discussions and surveys, we gathered qualitative and quantitative data and identified gaps in community awareness.

8 weeks

Ideate and Co-create

We co-created with the community through workshops to address information gaps and providing actionable solutions with the tool.

6 weeks

Pilot and Testing

We created digital booklets and videos with the gathered information, conducted youth capacity-building workshops, and mobilized the community.

Empowering Communities to Become Resilient!

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Advocacy for good water management practices & access to water

Awareness on water access and impact of poor quality

of water on health

Awareness on how polluting water impacts their daily lives

Lack of access to clean water

Lack of awareness about water borne diseases

Lack of awareness around climate change

What They Say About Us

We were impressed by the innovative tools developed by SiS. They enabled us to engage with our community on tricky topics like water scarcity and its health impacts. The quick and interactive nature of these tools facilitated meaningful conversations with households, empowering them to take action.
Prafulla Saligram
CEO
Next time I want to reach out (to) more community members, I (want to) help them, I want to go for home surveys again.
Sabeena
Community Mobiliser
It was great to see how they worked with the community. They understood how to encourage them, made it simple for the youth to go house to house & leveraged their strength to create awareness & bring the community together. So simple yet so effective!
Shahajahan
Community Partner