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Plan International, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

The importance of profiling hygiene both for its intrinsic value and also for promotion of sanitation, with particular attention to the needs in Schools and for girl children. Plan International, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. SACOSAN IV. SACOSAN IV.

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Plan International, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

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  1. The importance of profiling hygiene both for its intrinsic value and also for promotion of sanitation, with particular attention to the needs in Schools and for girl children Plan International, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council SACOSAN IV SACOSAN IV

  2. Why hygiene is important? Improved Sanitation: one that hygienically separates human excreta from human contact (JMP) Hygiene practices: all preventative measures to cut the faecal chain For health gains – safe disposal of human waste is only half the battle – hygiene is the essential second half. WSSCC Definition of sanitation: ‘collection, transport, treatment and disposal or reuse of human excreta, domestic waste water and solid waste, and associated hygiene promotion.

  3. SchoolSanitation in South Asia • Many schools have no toilets • Those that do – toilets are too few, locked, unclean, or without water • School toilets are no ones responsibility • Hand washing with soap after toilet use is very low • Cleaning practices involving students reproduce societal discrimination around caste, gender and age. • Excellent School WASH projects----manyislands of excellence but a huge challenge if we are to scale up across South Asia. UNICEF (2010): Equity in School WASH, Overcoming exclusion and discrimination in South Asia. Regional synthesis

  4. Minimum Standards: Hygiene & the SchoolEnvironment Hygieneeducationincluded in school curriculum Positive hygienebehaviourspromoted Facilities and resources help students and teachers to practice hygiene and stop spread of diseases Regularcleaning and wastedisposal: clean school Food storage and preparationissafe and hygienic to minimise disease transmission WHO (2009): Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Standards in Low-cost Settings

  5. Practice level? Literacy , knowledge level Practise We monitor infrastructure not habit Incorporation of Hygiene aspects to national policies and guidelines allowing integration Small number of women decision makers We do not involve users enough Poor life skills and cultural factors prevent children and women from participating

  6. The experience of PLAN Participatory surveys/ situation analysis Community triggering targeting total sanitation Child-led Hygiene promotion activities Latrine construction monitoring Child-led research Child-led advocacy for policy development When children participate we have a better chance of changing habits

  7. Lets pay particular attention to the needs of adolescent girls in schools. Plan International, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council SACOSAN IV SACOSAN IV

  8. Why Girls do not stay or learn in school ? Cost Discrimination Peer Relations Poverty Poor results Sociocultural beliefs Negative Experiences in School

  9. . Letslisten to girls 89 % experienced some form of restriction 68 % excluded from religious activities 53% in Bangladesh absent from school due to menstruation 41% lack of privacy for washing and cleaning . Main reason for being absent Only 42% reported an adequate toilet at school with privacy for changing and 55 % at home 85% reported abdominal pain , 8 % excessive bleeding and 5% breast pain SACOSAN IV SACOSAN IV

  10. Its a big issue for us! All adolescent girls admittedthattheymissedschoolwhentheyhadtheirmenstrualperiods and took the help of otherstudents to catch up. Theyalsosaidthatthey do not sitnext to or touch a girl whenshe has herperiod. 68% of girls stayat home for 5 days a month or 50 days a year

  11. Wenow have someexamplesacross SA…. Disposalfacilities Tamil Nadu, India Sanitation blocks, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  12. It can been done…. Nowletstakeit to scale NEPAL INDIA The government is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5500 community schools throughout the country. The government has allocated Rs. 1.1 billion [US$ 15 million] for the purpose Delhigovernment will soon make available sanitary napkins free of cost to girl students from poor families in all schools run by it to ensure that their attendance do not suffer due to hygiene-related issues. Dept of Rural Development Tamil Nadu have installed Incinerators in 33 girls’ toilets in schools in the State. Unicef

  13. Where are we today We are talking about it We are also doing something about it…… We must go further -Make it an essential part of household and institutional sanitation & hygiene Link it to reproductive health, education and life skills development Include this in our commitments for the region as a whole

  14. An appeal and a call for action • Break the silence • Look beyondtoilets and soap • Askwomen and girls and plan with and for them • Redefine basic sanitation to includetheirneeds.

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