PREPARING COMMUNITY WASH PROMOTERS FOR SUCCESS
Article on the steps that can be taken to help community WASH promoters succeed. Read more
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.
WASH in Schools Resources
How and When to Wash Your Hands
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This poster can be used to help educate people about how and when to wash hands.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global
Increasing school attendance by improving WASH access
Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Ghana
Sub-Saharan Africa
Menstrual hygiene matters: An essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls
Publication date:
June 7, 2016
WaterAid
This educational and empowering resource tackles without shame or recourse to euphemism an issue that is a major stumbling block for the realisation not only of the rights to water and sanitation of girls and women, but for ensuring gender equality. Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of...Read more
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