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School Sanitation Support Project at Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania

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Countries: United Republic of Tanzania
Basins: Indian Ocean (189) (Tana)
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Increase Access to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (SDG 6.1 & 6.2)
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Hygiene
Progress to Date: Baseline and end-of-project surveys, using observation anc focus group discussions. The percentage of primary school * students and teachers using toilets/urinals increased to 80%
Services Needed: Financial support
Desired Partner: NGO / Civil Society
Language: English
Start & End Dates: Sep. 01, 2021  »  Ongoing
Contextual Condition(s): PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to hygiene services
Additional Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Beneficiaries: Local communities / domestic users
Planning & Implementation Time: 1 - 3 months
Financial Resources: Less than $1,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: corporate
Project Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources
Project Source: User
Profile Completion: 74%

Project Overview

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 the…

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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.

Basin and/or Contextual Conditions: PHYSICAL: Inadequate access to hygiene services
Project Benefits: Raised awareness of challenges among water users
Indirect or Direct Beneficiaries: Local communities / domestic users
Months & Implementing: 1 - 3 months
Financial Resources: Less than $1,000 USD
Primary Funding Source: Corporate funding
Challenges: RESOURCES: Lack of financial resources

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Khamis Abassi
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