WASH-Friendly Schools Training Guide for Parents, Teachers and Student Leaders

This training guide promotes the WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in Schools movement to create and maintain “WASH-Friendly Schools” that have safe and healthy environments, including adequate facilities for hygiene and sanitation that allow children to be healthier and more attentive. The guide is intended to help teachers, parents, and students work together to carry out a plan for making their school WASH-friendly.

The contents are adapted from United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) country-specific experiences in Madagascar and Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, HIP was able to pilot this training guide as part of its Community-led Total Behavior Change in Hygiene and Sanitation Program in the Amhara region, with the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program and the Amhara Bureaus of Health and Education. Feedback from regional, zonal and district administration and WASH officials, trainers, teachers, parents, and youth leaders helped to strengthen and improve the training guide.

The guide has 9 sessions for a 2-day workshop, with instructions for the workshop facilitator. Each session includes objectives, materials/preparation, and then the steps to follow to facilitate the session. Templates for handouts or reproductions on flipcharts are included.