SWASH+ Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Plus Community Impact To improve the sustainability and effectiveness of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at scale in order to support the Government of Kenya’s Comprehensive School Health Policy.

Short description of the project (Phase 2):

The overall goal of SWASH+ Phase II is to improve the sustainability and effectiveness of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at scale in order to support the Government of Kenya’s Comprehensive School Health Policy.

Like Phase I, Phase II is based on an action-research-advocacy approach that seeks to test and promote viable solutions to implementing school WASH services with officials at school, county and national level.

The project consists of a research arm and an advocacy arm.

The policy arm of the project has thus far focused on using the results of the life cycle cost study to recommend more and better allocations to decision makers within the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, including the Budget Task Force. In addition, SWASH+ advocates within the ministry, for the adoption of mobile-based data collection by government.

Mission

• Decision-makers have access to and act on high quality data to make investment decisions to provide school WASH services. • Decision-makers have access to information on school WASH life cycle costs and allocate resources accordingly. • Decision-makers access learning and take measures to improve school WASH governance, inclusive of accountability and support at all levels.

Approach

Research or implementation partners: Government of Kenya (Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) and Ministry of Public Health) CARE, Emory University, Georgetown University

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Rural areasPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Operation, maintenance and sustainable servicesHealth and hygienePolitical processes and institutional aspectsSpecific to one or several countriesEnabling environment and institutional strengtheningSanitation systems and technology options (WG4)Sustainable WASH in institutions and gender equality (WG7)Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationSchoolsEducatorsPractitionersInternational NGO

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Kenya