Pemba has experience of school sanitation programmes primarily centred around hardware: toilet blocks and water sources. School sanitation programmes have been centred around hardware and has not been impressive. This usually led to a situation where facilities were not maintained and used. Neither was there any component of hygiene & health education in the design to support the hardware component. As a result, planned investments were often not used effectively and there was little demonstrable impact. To assist Governments to improve this situation, Pemba Environement and Sanitation Organisation now plan to develop a school sanitation support project that includes a wellbalanced mix of hardware and software aspects.

The project will focus initially on one Region of Pemba , covering approximately 70 primary schools Implementation of the project will centre on School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSH) ieams. The project will include capacity strengthening of all stakeholders involved.The overall objective of the project is to develop, test and successfully demonstrate a replicable model for hygiene education, water supply in rural Primary School in Pemba island Zanzibar Tanzania.

Specific objective are

1- To make visible the value and impact of school sanitation as perceived by community and thereby raise level of ownership.

2- To promote the importance of school sanitation at national, state, and district levels;

3- To improve hygiene practices in school children and through children in the families and community.