Effective Design and Implementation of Community Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programmes
Details
Course Title: Effective Design and Implementation of Community Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programmes
Duration: 5 Days
Location: Vital Extra Learning Center
Cost: USD 750
Course Description
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 short course is designed to empower participants with an understanding of the fundamentals of the WASH sector. The course will introduce participants 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 behaviors in both emergency and non-emergency environments.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
• Describe the social and economic differences in accessing improved WASH facilities and services
• Explain the range of health impacts from inadequate WASH and how they can be prevented.
• Describe the different environmental, social, and technical issues 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 practices meant to achieve sustainable WASH services through good technical, institutional, and economic principles.
• Discuss the issue of integrating behavior change in WASH and understand the importance and current thinking to hygiene promotion.
• Plan and coordinate WASH responses.
• Understand the complexity of delivering safe water and sanitation.
• Understand how to design a WASH program
• Understand how to implement a WASH program
Who should enroll?
This training course is recommended for present or future development practitioners working in WASH programming. Persons working in civil society or non-government organizations, government institutions, donor organizations, and consulting firms dealing
with WASH in the developing world stand to benefit a lot.
Send an email to [email protected] to request a course training agenda
Why train with us
Vital Extra Learning guarantees our clients:
• State-of-the-art facilities and training infrastructure
• Extended tradition of hand-holding during post engagement
• Service delivery through highly seasoned industry experts.
• Value for money
Schedules
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
| Weekdays | 08:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
| No. of Days: | 5 |
VITAL EXTRA LEARNING AND CONSULTANCY is a registered consultancy firm with its Head Office in Abuja, Nigeria. It is one of the emerging providers of competency development and learning solutions for career advancement for professionals. We provide strategic consulting services for both professionals and corporate organizations. We design and offer trainings and consultancy services to both public and private sectors, including non-profit organizations.
Our brand, VEL® an abbreviation for “Vital Extra Learning” has also extended its services to other countries in Africa, particularly in Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. We are also working to expand our operations in other parts of the world through collaborations and partnerships with other training and consulting firms in the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), Germany, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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