Institutionalizing Hand Washing with Soap in Schools in Shivpuri District with UNICEF- 2013-14
UNICEF NYHQ and GIZ entered into a partnership, designed to support few selected countries globally, to roll out the Fit for School approach. India is one of the countries selected for this innovation. Madhya Pradesh is one of the three states selected for piloting Fit for School project in India. The operationalization of this concept required support from the national and state government and local implementation partners. The role of the implementation partner (CARD) was to test the concept in 50 schools, demonstrate the early results and contribute in developing the template for scaling up at the state/national level. To achieve the above 50 Schools and one Hostel and one Ashram of different villages of Shivpuri District of Madhya Pradeshwere identified. During this efforts were made togenerate awareness towards this fact among the school children, teachers and school management committee members in the identified schools and hostels of the District.Hand washing before mid day meals had been practiced daily to promote and scale up the reach of hand washing habits at critical times i.e. before eating and after using toilets.
Planned Activities: 5thJune 2013 – 31st March 2014
During the entire project period the emphasis was given on developing systems and mechanisms aimed at mainstreaming hand washing in 50 schools of Shivpuri district, improvement of WASH facilities in schools and improved capacities of SMCs, teachers and child cabinets to monitor WASH in Schools. The detailed description of the key activities planned under the PCA is as follows:
- Identification of 50 schools for demonstration of hand washing practice
- Base Line study and End line study
- Orientation of Teachers, Child cabinets (Bal Sansad) and Meena Manch on hygiene promotion and hand washing practice
- Construction of hand washing facilities in all schools
- Promotion of hand washing with soap in 50 schools
- Monitoring of hand washing practice in schools
- Knowledge management and capacity development plan for scaling up
Achievement Against each project deliverable:
S.No.
| Activities |
Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Selection of Schools | During June, 2013 all the schools of three blocks of Shivpuri were visited for selection of schools for project. After visit 50 schools were selected for the hand wash activities. In this project two hostels of kolaras and khatora were also included. |
| 2. | Training of Project Staff | The orientation training program for Project’s core teamand animatorswas organized during 8 – 10th July’ 2013. During this three days’ training program issues related to activities of project, objectives and targets were explained to all the trainees in detail. |
| 3. | Baseline Survey Development of Micro Plan for Each School | Baseline survey work was conducted during the month of July 2013. The findings of baseline survey gave the status of infrastructural condition of all the schools. School wise microplan was developed for each identified School/Ashram/Hostel. In which programme calendar training and other day to dayactivities had been planned. The content of calendarincludes information on following behavior: 1. Washing hand with Soap at the critical times 2. Safe Disposal of Human Excreta 3. Safe Disposal of Child Excreta 4. Safe Keeping of Drinking Water for purity assurance. |
| 4. | Development of Reporting System | The reporting mechanism was developed during August-Sepember 2013 to evaluate & keep the recordof the hand wash activities was developed by the project team. (A) Daily reporting system developed with the help of SMS reporting by the Animators on the daily basis to Project Associate who forwards to Project Officer. After compilation of whole report of district, Project officer submited this to Bhopal head office through online format. (B) Monthly reporting system had also been developed. Under this monthly report formats had been designed for data collection. Animators were responsible to collect data in the format. |
| 5. | Development of different Tools and Material for the Schools | The tools and materials needed for implementation of Fit for School plan were developed and tested during second quarter of project. After finalization, the same had been supplied to each school. Copy provided to UNICEF office and RajyaShiksha Kendra Bhopal. |
| 6. | Development of Design Estimates for Hand wash Units | The design and estimates were developed with the help of R.E.S. according to instructions of District Penchant and State Education Center. |
| 7. | Construction of Hand Wash Unit | Construction of hand wash units was completed by second quarter, in each identified school/Ashram/Hostel with the help of Gram Panchayats’ Sarpach and Secretary‘s support. Based on the student’s strength of the school a few villageswere identified and additional hand wash units were constructed. |
| 8. | Repairs of Hand Wash Units | After completion of HWU by gram Panchayats, some hand wash units were damaged by miscreants. Four damaged HWUs were repaired by CARD to let hand wash program continue |
| 9. | Coordination with Different Line Departments | • Identification of place of construction of hand wash unit and design estimate including technical sanction for construction of hand wash units were carried out with the coordination of Janpad Panchayat, Education Department, R.E.S. and Gram Panchayat institutions . • Line departments such as PHED, R.E.S., RSK, District Education Department, Janpad Panchayt, Zila Panchayat and Gram Panchayats were contacted for repairing of non functional hand pumps, School Sanitation structure etc. • With the coordination of Government Departments in Shivpuri, The Wash infrastructure and other facilities were provided with in every school. |
| 10. | Availability of Soap in the School | The instructions were issued by Rural development deptt to District Collector that soap for hand wash should be made available from MDM funds. The Collector Shivpuri and state education centre instructed the Distt. Education officer and school and Gram Panchayats to follow the same in each school. Due to this Soap availability was ensured. |
| 11. | Trainings Conducted | (A) Trainings of Stakeholders: The Training Modules for training of SMC members, CC,SHG members and teacher were designed and being utilized for training. (B) SHG Members (Cooks): Intensive training program was conducted for SHG members in whom how to conduct kitchen cleaning, when and frequency of cleaning, cleaning during food preparation and other things related to cleanliness was emphasized. |
| 12. | Preparation of 100 days Calendar | Calendar was developed to plan out the cleaning activities for each identified school/Ashram/Hostel for 100 days duration. |
| 13. | Conducting Quarterly Review Meeting | The representatives of UNICEF and RSK visited to CARD office Shivpuri to review the project developmental activities with Shivpuri staff and headquarter officials on 12th Sept, 2013. |
| 14. | Undertake minimum 100 school days group hand washing | This was ensured in each identified School and also recorded the data of the participation of different stakeholders in this activity. |
| 15. | SMC and child cabinet Meeting. | In all the school monthly meeting of school management committees and child cabinet were organized and hand washing activity was discussed. |
| 16. | Global Hand wash day Celebration | Global hand wash day was celebrated in all schools on 15th Oct. 2013. All the Children, Teachers and SHG member including public representatives washed their hand. In some schools rally was organized. In all the schools hand wash and hygiene awareness generation programme was organized. |
| 17. | Celebration of Sanitation week (Swachhta Saptah) | The last week of February ’13 was celebrated as sanitation week in all 50 schools. During this week some activities among the children, like drawing and essay writing completion were organized. The theme was “Sanitation and cleanliness” the essays wrote by student and picture they drew showed that they have really learned a lot from the Fit for School project. |
| 18. | Submit deliverables to UNICEF; training materials, tools and design etc. | The following deliverable had been submitted to UNICEF:- • Training materials • Tools • Hand washing designs. |
| 19. | End line survey report | End line survey was conducted during last quarter of project implementation schedule. The report had been submitted to UNICEF Bhopal. |
| 20. | Dissemination work shop | The work shop will be organized in August 2014 as per directions received from UNICEF. |