One of the major achievements of Manava Bharati is the tremendous capacity building of the project partners at various levels, especially the rural community. MANAVA BHARATI will also be working as a training agency for capacity building of the Project Partners ( Grassroot level workers, NGOs, Line departments) for WB assisted Swajal II ( Uttaranchal Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project ) of Government of Uttaranchal.

The capacity building of the communities and the NGOs should be seen as the wise investment towards achieving the paradigm shift in the approach to water supply and sanitation service delivery. Community capacity building directly leads to community participation and self management of O & M operations, which is the key to sustainability. Building the capacity of NGOs helps to reinforce the concept of partnership between government, the NGO and the rural community where the government mainly plays the role of a facilitator and environment builder. While in the medium term it leads to public private partnership in the sector where key principles of the demand responsive approach can be adopted. Swajal project has now been bifurcated after the bifurcation at U.P. into U.P. and Uttaranchal. The Uttaranchal PMU is located in Dehradun and has eight DPMUs at the Garhwal and Kumaun Region.

The Project goes through three distinct phases: Preplanning, Planning and Implementation. In every project village water and sanitation committee is formed which functions as a sub committee of the Gram Panchayat and is responsible for the projects planning, implementation, operation and maintenance at the community level.

Swajal approach to rural water supply and environmental sanitation started with the assistance from World Bank which is a paradigm shift in terms of delivery of sustainable water supply and environmental sanitation facilities. It has been designed to support a package of investments and process of policy reform to deliver sustainable health and hygiene benefits to the rural population. The investments are designed  to test various policy options and to improve knowledge, attitude and practices about the linkages between health and hygiene, provide higher water supply service levels (quantity, quality, equity, reliability, coverage and access),and to improve environment through safe disposal of human waste. It derives its strength from being demand responsive and community driven. It takes into cognizance the differences of men and women and caters to the needs accordingly. It ensures the participation of community especially women in all activities of project cycle.