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SHORT TITLEWASH
PROJECT TITLEGuaranteeing Access to Water and the Right to Education in a Healthy Environment in Community Schools in Rukhak Kiri and Samlout, Cambodia
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project is based on Unicef's WASH program that promotes healthy schools as one of the elements of the Child Friendly Approach.
General objective - To guarantee girls and boys the right to water and sanitation in healthy school environments in Cambodia.
Specific objective - To contribute to strengthening the necessary local mechanisms and capacities for ensuring and guaranteeing the right to water and sanitation in healthy environments in 8 community schools in Rukhak Kiri and Samlout.
The project also aligns with Unicef's Three Star Approach to WASH in schools - designed to improve the effectiveness of hygiene behaviour change programs for children. The approach ensures that healthy habits are taught, and practices are integrated into daily school routines. The Three Star Approach helps schools meet the essential criteria for a healthy and protective learning environment for children as part of the broader child-friendly schools initiative. It includes steps designed to ensure that all students wash their hands with soap, have access to drinking water, and are provided with clean, gender-segregated toilets at school. Source: http://www.unicef.org/wash/schools/files/UNICEF_Field_Guide-3_Star-Guide%281%29.pdf
2 Expected Outputs -
1 - Infrastructures are improved and the community’s capacity to maintain and manage water supply systems in 4 community schools are reinforced with respect to the standards of Unicef's WASH program (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
2 - The educational community's mechanisms and capacities are strengthened with respect to the management of water resources and systems, and health and hygiene practices in 8 community schools in Rukhak Kiri and Samlout are improved.
General objective - To guarantee girls and boys the right to water and sanitation in healthy school environments in Cambodia.
Specific objective - To contribute to strengthening the necessary local mechanisms and capacities for ensuring and guaranteeing the right to water and sanitation in healthy environments in 8 community schools in Rukhak Kiri and Samlout.
The project also aligns with Unicef's Three Star Approach to WASH in schools - designed to improve the effectiveness of hygiene behaviour change programs for children. The approach ensures that healthy habits are taught, and practices are integrated into daily school routines. The Three Star Approach helps schools meet the essential criteria for a healthy and protective learning environment for children as part of the broader child-friendly schools initiative. It includes steps designed to ensure that all students wash their hands with soap, have access to drinking water, and are provided with clean, gender-segregated toilets at school. Source: http://www.unicef.org/wash/schools/files/UNICEF_Field_Guide-3_Star-Guide%281%29.pdf
2 Expected Outputs -
1 - Infrastructures are improved and the community’s capacity to maintain and manage water supply systems in 4 community schools are reinforced with respect to the standards of Unicef's WASH program (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
2 - The educational community's mechanisms and capacities are strengthened with respect to the management of water resources and systems, and health and hygiene practices in 8 community schools in Rukhak Kiri and Samlout are improved.
WHAT PROBLEM / SITUATION DOES THE PROJECT AIM TO ADDRESS
Access to a clean and safe water supply is a key aspect for ensuring many other child rights and for fulfilling the criteria for Unicef’s Child-Friendly Schools and WASH program. This program is based on the proven positive impact that healthy school environments with sufficient water supplies (both for drinking and washing) have on education and educational quality.
Adequate water supply is essential for reducing the risk of disease, and for guaranteeing the right to food, health and a life of dignity. The lack of access to adequate sanitation constitutes the main cause of water contamination and the spread of disease. As such, the sustainable management of water resources is an essential component of the fight against poverty. The human right to water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and is inextricably linked to the right to the highest possible level of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and to dignity.
The community schools in the project’s intervention area (the districts of Rukhak Kiri and Samlout) face important challenges. In the large majority of cases, these schools do not receive government support and depend on the capacities and funding of the communities themselves. Moreover, they are situated in remote areas that are very difficult to access. The schools do not have clean and safe water and the latrines often cannot be used due to a lack of water in the dry season. If hygiene education is not accompanied by basic facilities, it will not be effective.
The work that KHEN is currently carrying out to promote child rights and the importance of education may be meaningfully complemented by the strengthening of the local community's capacity to develop a low-cost and sufficient water supply systems.
KHEN also works with a rights-based approach, regarding drinking water and sanitation as a basic human right. KHEN aims to pay special attention to the principles of non-discrimination and gender equality, the water supply quality standards, environmental and financial sustainability of the service, and access to information and community participation.
Adequate water supply is essential for reducing the risk of disease, and for guaranteeing the right to food, health and a life of dignity. The lack of access to adequate sanitation constitutes the main cause of water contamination and the spread of disease. As such, the sustainable management of water resources is an essential component of the fight against poverty. The human right to water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and is inextricably linked to the right to the highest possible level of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and to dignity.
The community schools in the project’s intervention area (the districts of Rukhak Kiri and Samlout) face important challenges. In the large majority of cases, these schools do not receive government support and depend on the capacities and funding of the communities themselves. Moreover, they are situated in remote areas that are very difficult to access. The schools do not have clean and safe water and the latrines often cannot be used due to a lack of water in the dry season. If hygiene education is not accompanied by basic facilities, it will not be effective.
The work that KHEN is currently carrying out to promote child rights and the importance of education may be meaningfully complemented by the strengthening of the local community's capacity to develop a low-cost and sufficient water supply systems.
KHEN also works with a rights-based approach, regarding drinking water and sanitation as a basic human right. KHEN aims to pay special attention to the principles of non-discrimination and gender equality, the water supply quality standards, environmental and financial sustainability of the service, and access to information and community participation.
SPECIFIC PROJECT ACTIVITIES
- Preparation of training materials - Training materials will be prepared in English and Khmer in order to evaluate the water supply needs and to design improvements in the rainwater collection systems of the target schools.
- Viability study in 8 schools - A study will be carried out in 8 community schools to determine the viability of implementing systems for improving rainwater supply systems in the centres.
- Drafting of an Action Plan for the implementation of new water tank systems - 4 action plans for 4 schools as a first step.
- Selection of the technical organization responsible for the implementation of the water system(s)
- Installation of the rainwater supply systems (tanks) and training on their use in the 4 community schools
- Baseline and formulation of tools for project monitoring
- Design of hygiene education tools for the community - based on the Three Star Approach to WASH in schools.
- Reinforcement of School Water Committees in 8 community schools - Education materials and manuals will be created for the committees - for things such as the implementation of the Water Security Plan in each school. (School Water Committees, School Councils, community authorities and civil servants of local community institutions will all participate in and contribute to the creation of the manuals.)
- A procedures manual will be drafted for use by all 8 community schools - so that the water supply systems and health initiatives are participatory and sustainable going forward. The manual will also serve to share the experience with other schools and as a resource for possible future projects and alliances with local authorities and communities.
BENEFICARIES
- The districts of Rukhak Kiri and Samlout
- 1100 children (450 female) in the 8 community schools
- 120 children (50 female) with disabilities
- 1960 parents of children in the 8 community schools
- 150 teachers in the 8 community schools
DURATION
1 Year, Completing December 2016