Water, Sanitation Hygiene Management & Programming
In any humanitarian crisis, communities need access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene. Effective intervention can reduce the spread of disease, alleviate suffering and ultimately save lives. When local emergency response workers understand how to apply basic Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) strategies, more lives can be saved.
This course is designed to empower practitioners with an understanding of the fundamentals of the WASH sector. This course will introduce participants’ s to the core principles for planning, designing and implementing activities to improve sustainable and equitable access to domestic water supply and sanitation facilities and improve hygiene behaviours in both emergency and non-emergency environments
Objectives
- Describe the social and economic differences in accessing improved WASH facilities and services
- Explain the breadth of health impacts from inadequate WASH and how they can be prevented.
- Describe the different environmental, social and technical facets of urban and rural sanitation and current approaches
- Understand the practicalities around community water supply, waste management (including drainage), and related environmental health issues for effective community hygiene promotion
- Explain current thinking and practice aiming to achieve sustainable services through good technical, institutional and economic principles.
- discuss the issue of integrating behaviour change and understand the importance and current thinking to hygiene promotion
- Plan and coordinate responses in emergencies
- Understand the complexity of delivering safe water and sanitation in an emergency Consultancies: