WASH in Schools

This web site will serve as a discussion platform, a place for information exchange, questions to experts and event announcements related to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools, until recently called SSHE: school sanitation and hygiene education.


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Web LinkCall to Action WASH in Schools Campaign 2010

The Call to Action calls on decision makers to increase investments and on concerned stakeholders to plan and act in cooperation - so that all children go to a school with child friendly water sanitation and hygiene facilities. The campaign is the result of collaboration between several international partners supporting WASH in Schools programming.

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Web LinkPrince of Orange praises IRC/UNICEF’s school sanitation work

"I highly commend the work of UNICEF worldwide, an organization that has been instrumental in bringing this book to fruition; and of its partner in my own country, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in Delft. School sanitation is one of the important approaches covered in these pages, and represents real hope for a healthier future for millions of the world’s citizens.”

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ArticleSpeaker's corner: Ms. Annemarieke Mooijman

In speakers corner, persons working on WASH in Schools are asked to answer 3 key questions. This time the answers come from Ms. Annemarieke Mooijman, an independent consultant since 2003, specialised in WASH. Her first introduction to WASH in schools was in 1992 in Guyana.

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FileTeacher´s Paradise - Malawi

Check this one out! How would your paradise look like?

Teachers-paradise-malawi.pdf  (61 kB)

Web LinkBook Highlights: Towards effective programming for WASH in schools (update)

"Towards effective programming for WASH in Schools: a manual on scaling up programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene in schools". This manual is an update of the 1998 manual Towards better programming: a manual on school sanitation and hygiene education, published by UNICEF and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Read more to see the previous highlights.

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