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Strengthening Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools. A WASH guidance manual with a focus on South Asia
Summary
A generational change in health promotion behaviour and attitudes can be made within schools. If schoolchildren have access to clean and appropriate toilets, functioning hand washing facilities with soap, sufficient and safe drinking water they develop adequate hygiene skills making them much more likely to be healthier and positively influence hygiene practices among family members and the wider community.
This handbook can be used in various ways, such as to assist in the planning, designing, implementing and/or monitoring of WASH in schools programmes at state, district or block level.
For anyone involved in the training or orientation of local officials, teachers or trainers, you'll find discussions on methods, along with examples of workshop training plans including exercises, activities and timetables.
WASH provides a combination of the technical (hardware) and human development (software) components. Technical components include drinking water, hand washing and toilet facilities in and around the school compound. Human development components are the activities that promote conditions within the school and the practices of children that help to prevent water and sanitation related diseases and worm infestation. This approach equips the toolkit necessary to produce a healthy school environment and develop or support appropriate health and hygiene behaviours going forward.
About the publisher
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is a global multi-stakeholder partnership and membership organization that works to save lives and improve livelihoods. It does so by enhancing collaboration among sector agencies and professionals who are working to provide sanitation to the 2.6 billion people without a clean, safe toilet, and the 884 million people without affordable, clean drinking water close at hand. Through its work, WSSCC contributes to the broader goals of poverty eradication, health and environmental improvement, gender equality and long-term social and economic development. It has coalitions in 36 countries, members in more than 160 countries, and a Geneva-based Secretariat which is hosted by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). www.wsscc.org
Since its foundation in 1968, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) has facilitated the sharing, promotion and use of knowledge so that governments, professionals and organizations can better support poor men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they will use and maintain. www.irc.nl
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. www.unicef.org
