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Table 1 Sanitation promotion under NBA: Assessment objectives, indicators and data collection tool

From: Processes and challenges of community mobilisation for latrine promotion under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in rural Odisha, India

Aspects of Community Mobilisation

Data collection method

Indicators

Data Source

Aim 1:To assess the strategies and processes of community mobilisation and community triggering for rural sanitation demand generation under the NBA

NGO field staff training

Document review,

Attending the trainings/ Direct observation,

FGDs with facilitators (n = 6)

Enhanced knowledge of facilitators

Training manual and presentations;  Researcher’s observations;

FGD notes

Staff’s action plans of implementing NGOs

Documents review

Existence of NGO’s field action plans

Field/Action plans

Facilitators’ understanding of the intervention design/plan

FGDs with facilitators

Existence of activity plans of field staff

NGO’s field plans; FDG notes

Formation of different committees

Document review,

Attending the meetings

Committee members executing the campaign

Committee registers

Community's understanding of the intervention

FGDs with villagers (n = 20)

Villagers’ awareness on objective of NBA;

Changed perception and attitude towards OD;

Demand for latrines generated

FGD notes

Aim 2: Examine the challenges of executing NBA in socially diverse villages

Challenges in organizing community mobilisation

Attending and observing village mobilisation activities

Community understands latrine’s importance and unites to implement NBA

Researcher observations

FGD and IDI notes; Researchers observations

FGDs with villagers (n = 20)

IDIs with (n = 80)

Challenges identified by community members;

Existence of IEC materials, their distribution among people and their effective use for awareness generation and behaviour change

Facilitators’ understanding of the challenges

FGDs with facilitators

Challenges identified by NGO staff

FGD notes