View the recording: https://vimeo.com/142525709 Brought to you by Rotary and the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, this first of three webinars provides an overview of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene education) in Schools programs. New to WASH in Schools? Join sector experts to learn about the importance of WASH in Schools efforts and the various hardware and software components that make these club and district-led projects impactful and sustainable.

1. TITLE(PART 1): WASH in Schools – An Introduction(PART 1): WASH in Schools – An Introduction
World Water e-Summit
Rotary & WASRAG
15 October 2015

2. Welcome to the webinar
Sandra (Sandy) Forster, Past District Governor District 5810
Co-Chair World Water Summit 2016 – Seoul, Korea
Wasrag Board Member – 2013-2016
Wasrag Management Team Member – 2014-2016
Rotary Club of Dallas Uptown, Texas, USA

3. Thank you, World Water Summit sponsors
Wasrag appreciates the support of major sponsors to the World Water Summits: Fundación
Avina, Procter & Gamble (Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program), Sunspring Innovative H2O,
The Rotarian, Triple Quest, Water Missions International, and World Vision.

4. Agenda
• Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group
• Greg Allgood
• Nancy Gilbert
• Q/A

5. Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group | WHO?
• Rotarians committed to support Rotary clubs
for sustainable contributions to WASH projects
• A group of technical experts who assist clubs
and districts with water, sanitation, and
hygiene projects
– Rainwater harvest, toilets and sanitation systems,
wells and boreholes, dams and aquifers, sand filters,
entrepreneurship, building capacity and partnerships,
WaSH education programs for communities and
more….

6. Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group | WHO?
• 1650+ members
• Global: 92 countries, 320 Rotary districts
• Membership is open to Rotarians, family
members of Rotarians, Rotary program
participants and alumni

7. POLL

8. Meet our panelists
Nancy Gilbert
Past District Governor
International Development Consultant
Rotary Club of West Shore (Victoria), B.C., Canada
Greg Allgood
Vice President
World Vision Seattle, WA. USA

9. WASH in Schools

10. Global Water Crisis
• Every day, nearly 1,000 children
under 5 die from diarrhea
caused by contaminated water,
poor sanitation, and improper
hygiene.
• Worldwide, 663 million people
lack access to clean water.
• More than 80 percent of people
without water access live in rural
areas.

11. Women and Girls
• The global water crisis has a
greater impact on women
and girls who typically fetch
and manage water in the
home.
• Providing clean water and
improved sanitation and
hygiene transforms lives,
particularly of women and
girls.

12. World Vision’s Commitment to WASH
• Invested $400 million from 2010-2015 to address the
global water crisis and reach 7.5 million people.
• World Vision is the largest nongovernmental provider
of clean water in the developing world —reaching one
new person with clean water every 30 seconds.

13. Why Wash in Schools
• Lives are transformed by providing
WASH, education, health including
deworming, and nutrition in schools.
• Children are change agents for entire
communities.
• CDC study in Kenya showed 2.5x
increase in use of household
water treatment in homes based
on school program and 26%
reduction in absenteeism that
was sustained a year later.

14. Poverty is Complex
• Work in communities to help
them address not only WASH
but variety of challenges.
• Schools are a focal point not
only for WASH but education,
health, and improved
nutrition.
• Comprehensive approach
enables communities to lift
themselves out of poverty.

15. Best practices - Water
Provide access to water
through right-sized hardware
equipment based on water
source and provide water
access close to schools and
clinics. For example:
•Heavy-duty rigs used for
drilling deep wells.
•Mechanized wells with solar
pumps used for high-yield

16. Best practices - Sanitation and Hygiene
Combine clean water with sanitation and hygiene
interventions such as helping bring about behavior
changes for the greatest impact.
•Handwashing and hygiene promotion in schools.
•Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) leading to Open
Defecation Free (ODF) certification.
• Provision of latrines in
schools and clinics.

17. Feminine Hygiene
Girls in rural sub-Saharan Africa miss an average 5 days a
month of school during menstruation and do not understand
why they are menstruating.
•Separate latrines needed for girls.
•Private space to wash with soap and dry cloths are needed to
prevent infections.
•Penetration of commercially available sanitary pads is
significant (20%) in rural areas of East African countries but
affordability an issue.
•Disposal issues for sanitary pads may require incineration.

18. Access for the most Vulnerable
• Ramps and improved
access at water points.
• Tools that aid in water
collection.
• Disability-adapted
sanitation facilities.

19. Sustainable Solutions
Use a model that stresses community ownership.
Important components include:
• Water committees to maintain water points and
collect user fees.
• Local mechanics trained
to repair water pumps.
• Supply chain for parts.
• Enabling local
government to support
when we leave.

20. Why WASH in Schools?
‘Children have indeed proved to be effective change agents
for hygienic practices, such as washing of hands, using
latrines and maintaining hygienic environments generally.
Moreover, children who adopt good hygiene practices at a
young age not only work as peer advocates but are also
likely to grow-up to be health conscious adults, while
transferring the knowledge, skills and practices to the rest
of their families.’
(CASSAD, 2005; UNICEF, 2007)

21. WASH in Schools
• Planning
• Selecting partners
• Appropriate
technologies
• Monitoring and
evaluation

22. WASH in Schools - Planning
What will “success” look like?
When we have been successful with a WASH in
Schools program not only have facilities been
upgraded, but practices have changed and
knowledge is embedded about:
•properly use, maintenance, and repair of systems
•New practices - for example handwashing, use of
toilets, MHM… have been adopted consistently,
correctly, and continuously
•No one has been left behind

23. WASH in Schools - Planning
Planning for “success”:
Providing hardware is the easy part;
What is much more difficult, takes more planning,
and longer term support is addressing the software
– behavior change - needs

24. WASH in Schools - Planning
• Proper assessment and thorough understanding of
needs
• Plan for hardware and software needs…
– Hardware – technical issues
– Software – hygiene education, Menstrual Hygiene
Management (MHM), behaviour change – how to change
Knowledge Attitudes and Practices required for a
succesful program
– Why aren’t children attending school? Is it more than
WASH issues?

25. WASH in Schools - Planning
• School selection – importance of long term
sustainability
• Fully understand the needs and assess whether
this school is a good candidate to invest in:
– People/committees – to support long term behavior
change:
oParent/teacher committee
oSchool management committee
oLocal gov’t; community
oBoard of education

26. WASH in Schools - Planning
• Teachers
oIs there a lot of turn over (quite common)?
If yes, how to ensure knowledge is retained
at the school.
oBenefits of school/community clubs? (good
for supporting behaviour change)
oLevel of awareness and interest – what
capacity building will be needed?
oRole for Rotary?
• Security situation – impact on siting & selection

27. WASH in Schools - Planning
Criteria For Sanitation:
•A water point within the school premises or in the community.
•Democratically elected, gender balanced and functioning/active
parents-teachers association (PTA) and school based
management committee (SBMC).
•Willingness to contribute financially for the maintenance.
•Agreement by at least three teachers to take on responsibilities
for planning, monitoring, construction and maintenance
activities as well as for hygiene education in the school.
•Willingness of school, community and pupils to be part of
implementation and maintenance of the facilities.
•- excerpted from a Technical Guide for Construction of School Sanitation Facilities developed by
UNICEF in Nigeria.

28. WASH in Schools - Planning
“While all schools may be sensitized, the selection process should not only
identify schools that have applied for participation in the project, but also
schools that have demonstrated convincing ability to participate in the
planning, construction and management of the facilities as well as in the
education of the pupils in the proper use of the facilities.
Such schools should stand better
chance of being selected for
participation in the project.”
…Because they will adopt and support
behavior change more readily

29. WASH in Schools - Planning
• Government standards re ratios
o Urinals: Boys and girls
• Menstrual Hygiene Management: MHM
o Considerations – what age are the students?
• Local customs and practices
o Wipers v. washers
o Concept of “success” i.e. are flush toilets the only
acceptable option? How can we change that perception?

30. Planning tips and Resources
• WHO Guidelines on ratios of students and
teachers to toilets
• Consider country guidelines.
• Remember the use of urinals for both boys
and girls.
• A great example can be found in the
Nigeria Technical Guide, page 27.

31. Girls’ Urinal
Days for Girls
Provides information
on education and re-
usable kits that can
last as much as 3
years
31
Low-cost sanitation options

32. 32
• Urinals – integrated approach – liquid used as
fertilizer; plants located immediately behind urinals
with pipes taking liquid into ground;
• Fruit trees grew much faster;
Low-cost sanitation options

33. WASH in Schools - Planning
Operation & Maintenance
• What resources are available to provide technical
support?
• How will repairs and maintenance be funded?
• How to embed knowledge?
• Role of students, teachers, parents etc.
• How can the knowledge and habits developed at
the school be duplicated in the community?
• Unique role Rotary Clubs can play.

34. WASH in Schools – Choosing Partners
Why should a Rotary Club partner with an
NGO?
• Knowledge of subject area (WASH) and tools for
training (behavior change etc.) various stakeholders,
• Expertise in implementation; e.g. at WWS7 Literacy
Rotarian Action Group (LitRag) breakout was focused
on ways teachers could weave hygiene education into
many other subject areas – writing, art etc. –
expanding impact
• Available full time
• May have other sources of funds

35. WASH in Schools – Choosing partners
Why would an NGO partner with a Rotary
Club?
• Local knowledge
• Source of funds
• Possible source of volunteers
• Can build deep relationship with beneficiaries
• Long-term project support

36. WASH in Schools – Appropriate Technologies
WATER:
• Is there a water source?
• Quality?
• Sedimentation/Filtration
• Safe storage
• WASRAG water guide

37. WASH in Schools – Appropriate Technologies
SANITATION:
• WASRAG Sanitation Guide
• Other resources: SMART Centers,
Appropriate Technology Centers,
• Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)

38. WASH in Schools – Appropriate Technologies
Hygiene Education:
• WASRAG Hygiene Guide (www.wasrag.org)
• Many online resources
• CAWST.org
• UNICEF
NEXT WEEK:
WASH in Schools – beyond toilets and tap:
Behavior change through hygiene education
Wednesday, 20 October, 10:00-11:00 Chicago time

39. WASH in Schools – Monitoring & Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation:
• Ensure early agreement on both the
mechanisms for reporting, the indicators to
report on, and the targets for each agreed-upon
indicator.
• Presents an opportunity for Rotary Clubs – they
have a long-term presence (hopefully!), build
solid relationships and can keep in touch
regularly.

40. Questions?

41. WASH series
2015 World Water e-Summit 2:
WASH in Schools – beyond toilets and tap:
Behavior change through hygiene education
Wednesday, 20 October, 10:00-11:00 Chicago time
Learn from sector experts about creating sustainable hygiene
behavior change, a crucial component of successful WASH in
School projects, to bring about lasting community improvements.
Panelists:
PDG Juan Simon, Lima (Peru), Water Missions International
Sarah Fry, Washington, DC (USA), Hygiene Program Advisor of
WASHplus

42. Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group
• Become a WASRAG member! Lack of WASH is an
affront to humanity. Help the Rotary family help others.
• Join us to combat this global crisis.
www.wasrag.org

43. Wasrag’s World Water Summit 8 | Seoul, Korea
Wasrag’s World Water Summit 8
Friday, May 27th
, 2016
Seoul, Korea
Registration will open by end of October; visit www.wasrag.org.

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