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TITLE(PART 2): WASH in Schools beyond toilets and tap – behavior change through hygiene educationWorld Water e-SummitRotary & Wasrag20 October 2015

Welcome to the webinar

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

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.

Agenda

• Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group

• Sarah Fry• Juan Simon• Q/A

How to Participate

Use the question pane to type in where you are in the world, and how the weather is there.

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….

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

POLL

Meet our panelists

Juan Simon – Past District Governor

Country Director Peru Water Missions International

Rotary Club of Iquitos, Peru

Sarah FrySr. Hygiene and School WASH AdvisorFHI360 (USAID/WASHplus Project)Washington D.C., USA

Hygiene Habit Formation through WASH in Schools in ZambiaHygiene Habit Formation through WASH in Schools in Zambia

SPLASH = Schools Promoting SPLASH = Schools Promoting Learning Achievement Learning Achievement through Sanitation and through Sanitation and HygieneHygiene•4-year USAID/Zambia-funded 4-year USAID/Zambia-funded school WASH program (2011-school WASH program (2011-2015)2015)•To sustainably improve access To sustainably improve access to WASH in Zambian primary to WASH in Zambian primary schools in order to improve schools in order to improve learning outcomeslearning outcomes•Implemented through the MOE Implemented through the MOE by FHI360 and CAREby FHI360 and CARE

• 4 districts• Over 400

primary schools

SPLASH 2012 Baseline Facilities Survey shows:

- 70% of schools had access to water supply (but functionality a big problem)- Only 13% of schools treated drinking water- Average pupil-to-toilet ratio for girls was 1:207- 28% of schools had some handwashing facilities, but most without soap & none with signs of use

Framework For Sustainable WASH in SchoolsFramework For Sustainable WASH in Schools

• Water supply• Sanitation systems/toilets• Washrooms for girls• Soap & cleaning supplies• Anal cleansing materials• Menstrual hygiene management

materials

Access to Hardware• School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS)• WASH clubs & PTA Committees• WASH curriculum in & out of

classrooms• Community mobilization• Hygiene education campaigns• Street theater, community radio

Hygiene Practice

Hygiene ImprovementLearning Improvement

Enabling Environment• Policy improvement• Financing & cost recovery • O&M systems• Institutional strengthening• Private sector involvement• Cross-sectoral partnerships

Handwashing facilities

Hygiene Behavior Change – Best Practices

• Habit formation rather than hygiene promotion

• “Small Doable Actions”• Principle of Multiples • Reminders for practice– pairing

hygiene promotion/education with products and facilities

Focus on Habit Formation

• Habit formation gaining importance as paradigm for behavior change

• Uses brain science to pinpoint how actions convert to habits (reflective to reflexive)

E.g.: daily mandatory group handwashing

Pathways to Hygiene Habit Formation

• Group handwashing – daily, mandatory

• Student WASH Clubs – peer-to-peer, student to home & community

• Reminders for practice with enabling products and facilities

Small Doable Hygiene Actions

E.g.: “Tippy taps” made from local materials until permanent handwashing stations are built

Small Doable Actions for Menstrual Hygiene Management

Make your own menstrual pads!

Principle of Multiples

• Saturation with hygiene/handwashing messages via multiple channels & media:o Student WASH Clubs with hygiene

activities & talkso Teacher training & inclusion

in lesson planso Community mobilization o Use of media such as

community radioo Big celebrations of Global

Handwashing Day

Schools Influence Household Practices

• “School-led Total Sanitation” brings together school & community to analyze poor hygiene & sanitation practices

• Households build latrines after contributing to construction of school facilities

• Many communities have ended open defecation as a result of school - community mobilization efforts

Biggest challenges/opportunities for behavior change

• Advocacyo For comprehensive approaches o For good policies at school level and aboveo For integration of WASH in and out of classroom activities

• Access to Resourceso Facilities constructiono Purchase of products, media airtime o Support for teacher training, teaching materialso Support for special events like Global Handwashing Day

• Sustainabilityo Long term engagemento Focus on systems

Resources on WashPlus Website

• Training Guide to WASH Friendly Schools

• Teacher’s Guide to WASH• Emory/SPLASH study on children

as change agents• School O&M Guide

WASH-in-Schools Beyond Toilets and Taps.

Behavior Change through Hygiene Education

• Water Missions International is a nonprofit Christian engineering ministry providing sustainable safe water and sanitation solutions to people in developing countries and disasters.

Founded in 2001, Headquarters in Charleston, SC.

WMI served over 3 million people in 52 countries

Ten Country Programs in Haiti, Latin America, Africa and

Indonesia.

Water Missions International – A Rotary Cooperating Organization

Community Needs Evaluation

Sustainability

o Community mobilization

o Development of the Safe Water Committee

o Community WASH Promoters Training

WASH in Schools in Broader Context

School-based

• Community-level

• Household-level

• Volunteers

Latrines use

Household training

Sustainability

One year WASH-in-schools programs

• Ensures lasting benefits for all (i.e. children have access to services at home and at school)

• Reinforces key messages (children hear messages at home and at school).

One year WASH-in-schools programs

Enable children to be messengers and advocates of healthy behaviors at home and at school.

Follow-up visits – Rotary and ROTARACT Involvement Follow-up visits – Rotary and ROTARACT Involvement

Rotarian Involvement in behavior change practices

Rotary Involvement : Rotary Involvement : Rotary Community CorpsRotary Community Corps

“Rotary Community Corps are local. They are part of the community and help mobilize the community.They ensure that local needs are met. And most significantly, a Rotary Community Corps has a vested interest in its own success. Their members have to live with the results of their work; their commitments are the basis for sustainability.

Rotary grant projects that establish Rotary Community Corps help to ensure that the project’s impact lives in the community long after Rotary’s direct support ends.”

Ron Denham, Ron Denham, Past District Governor and founder of the Past District Governor and founder of the

Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action GroupWater and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group

A Rotary Community Corps can be formed anywhere a Rotary club is active.

Questions?

Final remarks by Marga Hewko

Marga HewkoCo-chair, Wasrag World Water Summit

8Rotary Club of Chicago, IL

WASH series

2015 World Water e-Summit 3: Engaging the community through WASH in Schools Tuesday, 27 October, 10:00-11:00 Chicago timeSector experts will provide guidance on engaging the

community through WASH in Schools projects to ensure local projectownership and lasting community improvements.

Panelists:Raul Gauto, (Paraguay)  | Strategic Supervisor of Water Opportunities, AVINA FoundationBraimah Apambire, Nevada (USA) | Center for International Water & Sustainability, Desert Research Institute

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