Increased access to WASH implementing 3R in Gorkha district A catchment-based 3R approach including rain water harvesting for water supply decreases temporal variability of supply and provides inherent mechanisms to improve safe and sufficient water for domestic purposes, agricultural productivity and increases resilience to climate change. It maps opportunities to increase and utilize natural water resources and uses the landscape as a buffer. Gorkha is one of the highly affected districts by the devastating Earthquake on 25 April 2015 followed by 3 June 2015. In Gorkha 412 people died, 44,478 households were completely destroyed and most of the remaining houses are not favorable to live. Institutions like schools and health posts are heavily damaged. Both these institutions are operating in open fields under temporary shelters.

Water and sanitation facilities have been destroyed by the Earthquake and people are fetching water from traditional water sources which are contaminated. People have started to practice open defecation even though some efforts have been made to cope the situation. During the rainy season there was an outbreak of diarrhea and dysentery caused by water contaminated and poor hygiene behavior. Most of the water sources which were used for water supply have been dried up. Objective 1: To increase access to water and micro irrigation through the rooftop rainwater harvesting 3R and ponds construction 
• Household level rooftop rainwater harvesting jars construction
• Construction of  institutional large size RWH jars
• Construction support irrigations ponds
Objective 2:  Capacity enhancing of the people to potential development opportunities through the different training, workshop and report.
• Urine collection and use M-TOT  training to community people 
• Communities will get awareness better health and hygiene practice.

Objective 3: To disseminate knowledge and skills on 3R to Local stakeholder and users.
• Project knowledge sharing workshop for community
• Project sustainability training for community and users groups
• Final knowledge sharing works to local stakeholder
• Staff capacity enhancing 3R and preparation of Water Use Master + 3R plan with the assistance of Helvetas  Nepal 
• Knowledge sharing workshops to community and local stakeholders To contribute in acceleration to improved and WASH and create the livelihood opportunity to the proposed community people of Gorkha district NEWAH is working in the area which was badly affected by the earthquake. Because of this financial status of the people living in this area is poor. Despite of this   NEWAH will promote for the financial sustainability at VDC level through establishing or linking existing saving and credit if exist in the VDC. NEWAH will conduct workshops regarding the use and promote micro finance in working area for the financial sustainability of the project. Within the target catchments the VDC, V-WASH CC will be the main WASH governing Institutional body to plan and manage the project. NEWAH will also facilitate linkages between the WSUC and the district level Federation of Drinking water and sanitation users Network (FEDWASUN) so that beneficiaries have a sustainable institutional mechanism for raising future concerns. Institutional training is provided to the WSUC through NEWAHs existing processes in addition to biannual support visits for a period of two (2) years post-construction. This visit also develops the capacity of the community and provides refresher training to WSUCs if required. NEWAH is promoting the Rain water harvesting jars and the irrigation ponds in this project. NEWAH is not using any spring or stream source water for any purpose like drinking, irrigation and for maintaining hygiene and sanitation. Extraction of the natural water is not here in the project area so there will not be any depletion of the natural sources. This will help to maintain the environmental sustainability in the project area. Proposed technical solutions will be context-appropriate and utilise sustainable, locally available materials wherever possible. The use of local community labour in construction ensures that beneficiaries have not only an understanding of system construction but take ownership in their asset. Training in system operation and maintenance ensures that infrastructure will be sustainable and managed effectively by the intervention community. Earthquake resilient structure will be constructed and more attention is given to make resilience catchments or roofing. The NEWAH standard approach is GESI (Gender and Social Inclusion). All caste, religious and excluded group will participate in the committee and they will decide their all project related activities before starting the project work. People of 3 VDCs of Gorkha named Taple, Finam and Baguwa are the target group of this program. The people of proposed locations are facing the problem of drinking water because there is no chance of gravity fed system. The proposed locations are inhabitant of various castes, ethnic group, marginalized group and minority. Nepali is the communicating language even the proposed locations are inhabitant of mixed castes and ethnicity. Agriculture is the main occupation for majority of people in the project areas. Some male people use to go India for labor because their own production from agriculture is not enough for them for the whole year. Economic status of most of the families is poor. So, the poor, marginalized castes and ethnic groups are the target groups of the program. Financial sustainability : NEWAH is working in the area which was badly affected by the earthquake. Because of this financial status of the people living in this area is poor. Despite of this   NEWAH will promote for the financial sustainability at VDC level through establishing or linking existing saving and credit if exist in the VDC. NEWAH will conduct workshops regarding the use and promote micro finance in working area for the financial sustainability of the project.
Institutional sustainability : Within the target catchments the VDC, V-WASH CC will be the main WASH governing Institutional body to plan and manage the project. NEWAH will also facilitate linkages between the WSUC and the district level Federation of Drinking water and sanitation users Network (FEDWASUN) so that beneficiaries have a sustainable institutional mechanism for raising future concerns. Institutional training is provided to the WSUC through NEWAHs existing processes in addition to biannual support visits for a period of two (2) years post-construction. This visit also develops the capacity of the community and provides refresher training to WSUCs if required.
Environmental sustainability : NEWAH is promoting the Rain water harvesting jars and the irrigation ponds in this project. NEWAH is not using any spring or stream source water for any purpose like drinking, irrigation and for maintaining hygiene and sanitation. Extraction of the natural water is not here in the project area so there will not be any depletion of the natural sources. This will help to maintain the environmental sustainability in the project area.
Technical sustainability : Proposed technical solutions will be context-appropriate and utilise sustainable, locally available materials wherever possible. The use of local community labour in construction ensures that beneficiaries have not only an understanding of system construction but take ownership in their asset. Training in system operation and maintenance ensures that infrastructure will be sustainable and managed effectively by the intervention community. Earthquake resilient structure will be constructed and more attention is given to make resilience catchments or roofing.
Social sustainability : The NEWAH standard approach is GESI (Gender and Social Inclusion). All caste, religious and excluded group will participate in the committee and they will decide their all project related activities before starting the project work. The access to improved drinking water sources has significantly increased There is a significant increase in the number of campaigns on hygiene and sanitation 52 numbers of rainwater harvesting  jars will be constructed in HH level (470 people) 1 rain water harvesting jars will be  constructed as per standard in in school  level (450 children) Country programme partners have adopted the key elements of environmental sustainability 9 INF A catchment-based 3R approach including rain water harvesting for water supply decreases temporal variability of supply and provides inherent mechanisms to improve safe and sufficient water for domestic purposes, agricultural productivity and increases resilience to climate change. It maps opportunities to increase and utilize natural water resources and uses the landscape as a buffer to overcome for periods of low rainfall as well as increase natural availability of water resources. INT,IMP E,T 3R,MUS