WASH in Schools

According to UNICEF, WASH education in schools provides safe drinking water, improves sanitation facilities, and promotes lifelong health. WASH in schools enhances the wellbeing of children and their families and paves the way for new generations of healthy children. Resources available in this sub-theme include WASH education materials and case studies on WASH in schools projects, as well as other resources that support the provision of WASH education and infrastructure in schools.

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WASH in Schools Resources

Ghana Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project - Success Story - Improving Youth Hygiene, With Comic Books for Students, By Students

Published: 
January 1, 2012
U.S. Agency for International Development
For young students, learning lessons on hygiene and sanitation is now as easy as reading a comic book. The USAID-supported Ghana WASH Project is using a new approach - an educational comic book - to share sanitation and hygiene messaging with youth, and the storyline is informed by students'...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

Case Study: School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus (SWASH+) Community Impact Program: Research for Policy Changes

Foundation Center
Since 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has supported the Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus Community Impact program (SWASH+) in Kenya, contributing $9.5 million to CARE for the 5-year project. The initiative is an action-research and advocacy project...Read more
Regional focus: 
KenyaSub-Saharan Africa

Who Will Go for the Ball? A WASH Education Comic Book

Relief InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
This behavior change communications tool was designed by teenagers in Ghana to get their peers to think about WASH in their daily lives.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

My Health, My Wealth: The WASH Funtivity Book

Relief InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
This behavior change communications tool, designed for children 6-12 years of age, is full of fun activities to get kids thinking about proper sanitation and hygiene practices.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on WASH in Schools in Ethiopia

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
This case study from World Vision's WASH project illustrates how WASH has improved school attendance in one community.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on Health Clubs in Kenya

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
This case study from WV Kenya highlights the impact of a school health and hygiene club in Kenya.Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Increasing school attendance by improving WASH access

Published: 
July 1, 2016
Desert Research Institute
July 22 2016, TAMALE, GHANA – More than 70-percent of households in Northern Ghana have no access to toilets and fewer than 15-percent of those Ghanaian households have handwashing facilities, according to the recent UNICEF statistics. Lack of access to improved water, saniation and hygiene (WASH)...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

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