A demand driven and community participatory based  rural drinking water and environmental sanitation project jointly sponsored by World Bank, Government and the  community, 84%, 06% and 10%  share of each respectively was an innovative one and HETONA started providing intermediary services to this project from 1998 onwards. The project envisaged three stages; planning, implementation and operation and maintenance. Later the project was developed on sector wise approach rather than a project specific basis with the credit from international development association (IDA) towards the cost of Uttarakhand rural water supply and sanitation project.  Known as SWAp it essentially represents an approach wherein most significant public funding for the sector supports a single sector policy and expenditure programme under government leadership adopting common approaches across the sector, utilizing existing institutional systems and indigenous resources and progressing towards relying on a government procedures to disburse and account for all public expenditures, however funded. To put it explicitly, SWAp means a state investment programme to achieve the vision goals of rural water supply and sanitation.   

HETONA entered into agreement with three district implementing agencies namely; DPMU and Jal Sansthan Uttarkashi and Jalsansthan New Tehri.  HETONA provided intermediary services for planning and implementation phases to 24 GPs with DPMU, 05 GPs with UJS-Uttarkashi and 09 GPs with UJS New Tehri.  The programme was 100% success in water schemes construction in all GPs with 100% sanitation coverage  and  World banks mission visited our GP Tuliyara( Gailari) of  Chinyalisaur block of Uttarkashi  and  Ghena in Saklana area of Jaunpur block of Tehri GarhwalIn both visits the Mission praised works/facilitation of HETONA.

• The project was demand driven and not need based.
• The project was community participatory; participation right from the beginning of need assessment, demand, planning, implementation and operation and maintenance.
• The project was based on cost sharing 90:10 ratios, of which community contribution was 10 percent of the cost.
• NGO’s role was a facilitator and not as implementer agency.