Home / Themes / School Sanitation and Hygiene

School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) focuses on the responsibility to provide children with a child friendly and healthy learning environment. It emphasises the provision of sanitation facilities that children need while at school,water supply and the support to children to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge on effective hygiene. Children can in turn communicate their new behaviours and skills to their homes and communities and use it in future when they have become parents themselves.

UPE guidelines on policy, roles and responsibilities of stakeholders (10 Sep 07)

UPE handbook, an output of the International conference on the UPE programme at international conference center.

Read more or download pdf_20070907_135526.pdf (601 kB)

School and household sanitation and hygiene best practices in Uganda (07 Sep 07)

This report presents Inventories on projects in Uganda on household and school sanitation & hygiene, good household sanitation and hygiene practices, good primary school hygiene practices, and copies of materials (manuals, guidelines etc.) of approaches, methodologies and capacity building in household and school sanitation & hygiene in Uganda.

School Sanitation and Hygiene in Uganda: The challenge (28 Jun 07)

The inadequate sanitation situation in schools had been exacerbated by the implementation of Universal Primary Education policy which entitles all school age children to free primary education, causing the number of students per latrine stance to exceed 700:I. The School sanitation and Hygiene study in Uganda, a Research Project, seeks solutions to improve school sanitation and hygiene. The School Sanitation and Hygiene study aimed at identifying the problems by a situational analysis, reviewing government approaches, identifying gaps, and making recommendations for achieving and sustaining better school sanitation and hygiene in rural Uganda.

School Sanitation Latrine Options (Design and Construction guidelines) (21 Jun 07)

Sanitation in primary schools has always presented a big challenge to several actors in the health, education, water and sanitation and other sectors. The current high ever increasing enrolment at schools in the country as a result of the Universal Primary Education has made sanitation an issue worth national attention. The School Sanitation Latrine Option guidelines address different aspects of school sanitation.

Read more or download School Sanitation Latrine Options.doc (23 kB)

Sanitation and Hygiene in Primary Schools in Uganda (09 Jun 07)

Lack of privacy and related problems continue to be one of the concerns related to sanitation in schools. The Sanitation and Hygiene in Primary Schools in Uganda study indicated that almost 1 in 6 of primary school toilet facilities had no doors and two thirds (64%) of those with doors could not lock from inside. The study, commissioned to obtain updated in-depth information on sanitation and hygiene in schools. Data was collected in 20 districts and involved 416 schools, 334 primary and 82 secondary schools and among others, a total of 6704 primary pupils and 1684 secondary students were interviewed

WASH in Schools web site (26 Apr 07)

The WASH in Schools web site comes from the joint School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) web site of IRC and UNICEF, which was launched in 1999. This new web site serves as a discussion forum and an information exchange platform for sector professionals working in the field of WASH in Schools. It is a place where people can share messages in a simple way. It is also the home of the WASH in Schools Thematic Group and is linked to the FRESH framework

Fact sheet- School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (03 Feb 06)

School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) is a very attractive issue not only from the political point of view but also from a social perspective. It is based on the premise that children a have a right to basic facilities such as school toilets, safe drinink water, a clean surroundings and information on Hygiene.

Read more or download sshe.pdf (409 kB)

Community Integrated Development Initiative (CIDI) Child-to-Child programme for WATSAN (19 Jan 06)

compiled from UWASNET series No.2

CIDI started a Child-to-Child program focusing on children in primary schools namely Katwe Primary School and St.John’s Primary School- Kikubamutwe. The Child-to-Child program
programme in Katwe Primary School resulted in water recycling
initiative.

Hygiene And Sanitation Promotion Strategy for Schools In Conflict Affected Areas in Uganda (15 Nov 05)

For nearly two decades now northern and parts of north eastern Uganda have been plagued by a civil war that has left nearly 2.0 million people displaced. The UNOCHA (2004) estimates that 23% of these are children. Large proportions, approximately 90% of the displaced children have ended up in the camps for Internally Displaced People (IDP camps). These camps have also been potential focus for attacks by the rebel groups because that is where they can find food, pharmaceuticals and children they abduct to train as fighters

Girl’s Education Movement (GEM) Clubs (07 Jul 05)

Access to good and safe sanitation is a right; hence the need to protect the rights of girls, boys and women to improved sanitation, hygiene and safe water .It is in this context that the school sanitation program was designed. This paper outlines the various initiatives undertaken by children and youth in school hygiene and sanitation promotion through Girl’s Education Movement (GEM) club .It also discuses the respective outcomes.

Folder
Article
Event
Publication
Link
Organisation
Person
Forum
File
Normal link
Active link
Visited link

WATSAN Resource Centre (Uganda)

School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

Icons and colours