SAAAF Schools Campaign Sanitation Awareness, Assessment and Action for Schools Campaign MEDAK 2006 RWS/TSC-Medak UNICEF CEE SSA

Why SAAAF? Create awareness among students, teachers, community and Gram panchayat Trouble shooting to revive the existing facility with the participation of students, teachers, community, Grama panchayat and line departments Fund generation Monitoring at all the levels (use & maintenance)  School level (by students committees, teachers & HM)  Village level (Panchayat and Village WATSAN committees)  Mandal level (Mandal Education Officer (MEO), Mandal Parishad Development Officer (MPDO), Mandal Resource Persons (MRPs), NGOs)  District level (District Education Officer (DEO), Superintendent Engineer-Rural Water Supply)

Objectives of SAAAF Build awareness on sanitation and hygiene issues amongst students, teachers, head masters and concerned line departments. Conduct school level assessment of the sanitation and hygiene infrastructure use and maintenance through a participatory process involving students, teachers, head masters, concerned line departments and community representatives. Identify and initiate action at individual, school, community and line department levels to resolve problems and lead to proper use and maintenance of sanitation and hygiene infrastructure in schools.

SAAAF Schools Campaign Sanitation Awareness, Assessment, Action For Schools Campaign Students & Teachers Education Department RWS Community PRIs Students & Teachers Education Department RWS Community PRIs Before After

SAAAF Schools Campaign implementation Initiated in October 2006 Reached 421 Govt. schools in Medak District Partnership between CEE-AP, Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)- Medak, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and UNICEF Key stake holders: 69 Mandal Resource Persons (MRPs) and District Resource Persons (DRPs) from Education department 60 Preraks from 23 mandals 9 mandal level facilitators from NGOs

Process Constitution of District SAAAF Schools Committee  Constitution of Mandal SAAAF Schools Committee  Selection of schools  Training workshop organizers  Conducting SAAAF workshops in schools for Awareness building, participatory Assessment and Action planning  Facilitating implementation of the action plans  Continued monitoring and support to schools  Evaluation

July-06Oct-06Nov-06Dec-06Jan-07Feb-07Mar-07 District workshop with Line Departments MEOs workshop Model camp Camp organizers training (Selected MRPs and DRPs) SAAAF schools campaign in 369 schools Monitoring completed in 120 schools MEOs Review SAAAF Schools competition declared MEOs Review District SAAAF schools day Time line

What happens in a SAAAF school camp? AwarenessAssessmentAction Learning by doing Activity approach Hand washing with soap Safe drinking water Web of contamination Waste disposal Participatory assessment Involving Students Teachers Community PRIs Line departments Action plan on WATSAN improvement and use Commitment for actions by 375 schools Formation of school WATSAN committees Hand washing with soap Solid and liquid waste disposal Commitments from stake holders

SAAAF Campaign Interaction with teacherAssessment of WATSAN facilities Activity with Children Demonstration of Hand washing

Action plan preparation with Panchayat and Parents

Glimpses of action The raised height of the urinals The two pits being cleaned during the SAAAF workshop Repairing of sunken pits Cleaning of School premises

Review meeting at district level with Mandal Education Officers (MEOs)

SAAAF Status Total number of schools covered : 375 in 23 mandals 143 complete SAAAF schools in 23 mandals These schools have Students using the sanitation facility Sanitation committees in place Proper waste disposal (solid and liquid) Students with good personal hygiene behavior Hand washing with soap Community participation and involvement in school sanitation (Based on monitoring visits conducted from 26 th February to 9 th March 2007)

On the basis of evaluation conducted in 190 SAAAF schools Status

Scale up….. Medak: 2,648 schools celebrated SAAAF schools day on March 1st by order of the District Collector In 368 Gram Panchayats including Kalajadha team performed awareness programme on Hand Washing with soap and ISL use The SAAAF schools campaign is being also replicated in Khammam, Ananthapur and Vishakapatnam

Actions after Assessment Before After Digging a compost pitCompost pit

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