Water, Sanitation, Hygiene in

schools in India WinS in India(WASH in Schools)

PDG Ramesh ChanderDistrict Coordinator

WinS (Wash in Schools Program)

“Sanitation is more important

than independence”

-Mahatma Gandhi

CHENNAI DECLARATION • To participate in Swachh Bharat

Abhiyaan launched by PM Narendra Modi.

• Each Rotary District & Club in India to make Swachh Bharat as their significant & “must do” project and keep it up for First Phase ending 2017.

• To build toilets and wash facilities in 10000 schools annually for a period of two years.

• To adopt schools for the maintenance and behavior changes

• To collaborate with UNICEF for technical support

Rotary India WinS Committee Structure

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE• Chairman – PRID Sushil Gupta • Patron – PRIP Raja Saboo • Adviser – PRIP Kalyan Banerjee • Ex-Officio Member - RID P.T. Prabhakar • Ex-Officio Member – RIDE Manoj Desai • Member Secy. & Zonal Coordinator (North) - PDG Ramesh Aggarwal • Zonal Coordinator (West) – PDG Vinay Kulkarni • Zonal Coordinator (South) - PDG Ravi Vadlamani• Zonal Coordinator (Kerala & Tamil Nadu) DG I S A K Nazar• Zonal Coordinator (East) – DG Sanjay Khemkha• Technical Advisor PDG Vinod Bansal• Technical Advisor PP Sunil Vakil

COORDINATION AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL - each in every District

Partnership With UNICEF • To work towards the shared goals and

vision of Rotary India Wins Program.

• To address various key institutional,

policy and finance bottlenecks that

prevent sustainable WinS in India

• To identify solutions and best practices• To conduct research and reviews to strengthen the

evidence based adoption of practices for WinS.

• To ensure the investments made under WinS are sustainable leading to concrete health and educational results for the targeted children.

MOU with HRD Ministry

• To construct 489 separate toilets for boys & girls in schools in states:

• To undertake the maintenance & behavior changes on hygiene habits of 10,000 schools across India

Rotary India leadership has entered into an understanding with HRD Ministry - Department of School Education & Literacy:

• Andhra Pradesh • Bihar• Gujrat• J & K• Jharkhand

• Karnataka• Manipur • Odisha, • Uttaranchal • West Bengal

• Clubs can adopt any Govt. primary/upper primary, secondary school PAN India both in urban and rural areas

• Clubs need to provide the name of school with location and U DISE code assigned to every school adopted to its District Coordinator.

What is WinS (WASH in Schools)Access to sufficient quantities of safe water for

• Drinking• Handwashing after defecation and before eating, for

cooking and personal hygiene

Toilet facilities that are• Gender-specific (i.e. separate for boys and girls),

sufficient, child-friendly, adequate, well-equipped, well-maintained and culturally appropriate

Hygiene promotion and education• Child cabinets, posters, wall-painting, messaging, events

and competitions, community and household linkages• Promote personal hygiene and school hygiene especially

individual and group handwashing, nutritional supplements

Five Key Benefits of WinSWASH in Schools provides a healthy & protective school environment minimizing risk of disease, abuse & exclusion.

WASH in Schools encourages pride and commitment to school by enabling every child to become an agent of change for improving water, sanitation and hygiene practices in their families and their community.

WASH in Schools is an investment in the health and well-being of future generations, valuable commodities for the countries’ development and growth.

WASH in Schools promotes equity with the provision of separate toilets for boys and girls, ensuring privacy and dignity & contributing to girls’ school attendance & retention.

WASH in Schools discourages the habit of defecation in open and encourages children to insist their family members for a toilet in in their homes

Status of Hygiene in Schools

• Only 51% of the schools have a designated handwashing space.

• Only 12% of schools had soap/detergent available at the handwashing space.

• 49% of the students washed their hands using only water.

• 32% of the children wash hands with soap before eating.

Status of toilets in schools in India Total Number of Schools in India : 1,400,000Schools without Toilet Facilities : 2,25,000 (adopted by PSUs & Corporates)

REASONS FOR DYSFUNCTIONAL TOILETS:

• Lack of dedicated funds for operation and maintenance

• Weak management

• Poor water availability• Poor quality of construction• Low compliance with standards

and norms

Toilets for boys Toilets for girls

Available and func-tioning

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Available but not functioning

76996 87984

Not Avail-able

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Available and functioning Available but not functioning

The Essential Elements of WinS

1. WATER: Daily provision of child-friendly and sustainable safe drinking water.

Sufficient water for handwashing, school cleaning, food preparation and cooking.

2. SANITATION: Separate toilets for boys and girls, with one unit generally having one toilet (WC) plus 3 urinals maintaining a ratio of preferably one unit for every 40 students.

3. DAILY HANDWASHING WITH SOAP: Sufficient group handwashing facilities with soap allowing groups of

10-12 students to wash hands at the same time at two critical times: before eating and after using the toilet.

Seven Essential Elements of Rotary India WinS Program

4. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (O&M): All water, sanitation and handwashing facilities to be clean, functional and well maintained by ensuring a regular supply of cleaning materials, consumables like soap, disinfectants, brooms, brushes, buckets etc., Appointing local sweepers/cleaners, and undertaking repairs of water and sanitation facilities.

Seven Essential Elements of Rotary India WinS Program

6. BEHAVIOR CHANGE ACTIVITIES: Promotion of personal hygiene and school hygiene child cabinets, posters, wall-painting, messaging, events and competitions, water, sanitation and hygiene messages through reading materials & activity based learning methodologies.

Promotion of menstrual hygiene education/management by female teachers.

7. CAPACITY BUILDING: Development of the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience to facilitate, finance, manage and monitor water, sanitation and hygiene programmes in schools through training of teachers and SMCs for equitable use and maintenance of facilities, including the promotion of hygiene.

5. MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES: including soap, adequate and private space for changing and disposal

facilities for menstrual waste, including an incinerator and dust bins.

Daily Routines to Promote Healthy Habits• Daily supervised group

handwashing with soap, normally before the school meal

• Daily supervised cleaning of toilets, and provision of soap and water (at least one functional toilet for girls and one for boys); no open defecation

• Daily supervised use of drinking water bottles by all children

Three Star Approach to WinS

One Star School Two Star SchoolIncremental Improvements• Hygiene education

and facilities to promote handwashing with soap after toilet use

• Improved sanitation facilities, plus facilities & education for menstrual hygiene management

• Low cost point-of-use water treatment introduced in schools

Three Star SchoolMeeting NationalStandards

• School facilities & systems upgraded to meet national standards

The Existing Situation for Many Schools• Limited or no hygiene

promotion• May or may not have

WASH infrastructure

No Star School

DAILY GROUP HANDWASHING FACILITIES

A Clean & Healthy School: A Cycle of Opportunities

Improved Hygiene

Improved Health &

Less Disease

Improved Attendance

&

Decreased Drop-out-

Rate

Better Student

Performance

Economic Growth

Rotary India WinS Program in schools will enable every

child to become an

“Agent of change”

Let every child be the change that we want to see…….

Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya will lead to our ultimate goal

“Swachh Bharat”

Thank You!

PDG. Ramesh Chander(2004-05)  Rotary International  District-3011.District Coordinator WinS (Wash in School Program)Member, National Committee,Rotary India Literacy Mission,Member,Rotary Club of Delhi West