1. Session: Role and Responsibilities PDG AAAAAAA BBBBBBB
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene in schools in India WinS in India (WASH in Schools) PDG Ramesh Chander District Coordinator WinS (Wash in Schools Program)

2. “Sanitation is more important than independence”
-Mahatma Gandhi

3. CHENNAI DECLARATION
To participate in Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan launched by PM Narendra Modi.
Each Rotary District & Club in India to make Swachh Bharat as their significant & “must do” project and keep it up for First Phase ending 2017.
To build toilets and wash facilities in schools annually for a period of two years.
To adopt schools for the maintenance and behavior changes
To collaborate with UNICEF for technical support

4. Rotary India WinS Committee Structure
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Chairman – PRID Sushil Gupta
Patron – PRIP Raja Saboo
Adviser – PRIP Kalyan Banerjee
Ex-Officio Member - RID P.T. Prabhakar
Ex-Officio Member – RIDE Manoj Desai
Member Secy. & Zonal Coordinator (North) - PDG Ramesh Aggarwal
Zonal Coordinator (West) – PDG Vinay Kulkarni
Zonal Coordinator (South) - PDG Ravi Vadlamani
Zonal Coordinator (Kerala & Tamil Nadu) DG I S A K Nazar
Zonal Coordinator (East) – DG Sanjay Khemkha
Technical Advisor PDG Vinod Bansal
Technical Advisor PP Sunil Vakil
COORDINATION AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL - each in every District

5. Partnership With UNICEF
To work towards the shared goals and
vision of Rotary India Wins Program.
To address various key institutional,
policy and finance bottlenecks that
prevent sustainable WinS in India
To identify solutions and best practices
To conduct research and reviews to strengthen the evidence based adoption of practices for WinS.
To ensure the investments made under WinS are sustainable leading to concrete health and educational results for the targeted children.

6. MOU with HRD Ministry
Rotary India leadership has entered into an understanding with HRD Ministry - Department of School Education & Literacy:
To construct 489 separate toilets for boys & girls in schools in states:
To undertake the
maintenance
& behavior changes on hygiene habits
of 10,000 schools across India
Andhra Pradesh
Karnataka
Manipur
Bihar
Odisha,
Gujrat
Uttaranchal
J & K
West Bengal
Jharkhand
Clubs can adopt any Govt. primary/upper primary, secondary school PAN India both in urban and rural areas
Clubs need to provide the name of school with location and U DISE code assigned to every school adopted to its District Coordinator.

7. What is WinS (WASH in Schools)
Access to sufficient quantities of safe water for
Drinking
Handwashing after defecation and before eating, for cooking and personal hygiene
Toilet facilities that are
Gender-specific (i.e. separate for boys and girls), sufficient, child-friendly, adequate, well-equipped, well-maintained and culturally appropriate
Hygiene promotion and education
Child cabinets, posters, wall-painting, messaging, events and competitions, community and household linkages
Promote personal hygiene and school hygiene especially individual and group handwashing, nutritional supplements

8. Five Key Benefits of WinS
WASH in Schools provides a healthy & protective school environment minimizing risk of disease, abuse & exclusion.
WASH in Schools encourages pride and commitment to school by enabling every child to become an agent of change for improving water, sanitation and hygiene practices in their families and their community.
WASH in Schools is an investment in the health and well-being of future generations, valuable commodities for the countries’ development and growth.
WASH in Schools promotes equity with the provision of separate toilets for boys and girls, ensuring privacy and dignity & contributing to girls’ school attendance & retention.
WASH in Schools discourages the habit of defecation in open and encourages children to insist their family members for a toilet in in their homes

9. Strat Plan Update to Board, May 2011
Status of Hygiene in Schools
Strat Plan Update to Board, May 2011
• Only 51% of the schools have a designated handwashing space.
Only 12% of schools had soap/detergent available at the handwashing space.
49% of the students washed their hands using only water.
32% of the children wash hands with soap before eating. 9

10. Strat Plan Update to Board, May 2011
Status of toilets in schools in India
Strat Plan Update to Board, May 2011
Total Number of
Schools in India : 1,400,000
Schools without
Toilet Facilities : 2,25,000
(adopted by PSUs & Corporates)
REASONS FOR DYSFUNCTIONAL TOILETS:
Lack of dedicated funds for operation and maintenance
Weak management
Poor water availability
Poor quality of construction
Low compliance with standards and norms 10

11. The Essential Elements of WinS

12. Seven Essential Elements of Rotary India WinS Program
1. WATER:
Daily provision of child-friendly and sustainable safe drinking water.
Sufficient water for handwashing, school cleaning, food preparation and cooking.
2. SANITATION:
Separate toilets for boys and girls, with one unit generally having one toilet (WC) plus 3 urinals maintaining a ratio of preferably one unit for every 40 students.
3. DAILY HANDWASHING WITH SOAP:
Sufficient group handwashing facilities with soap allowing groups of students to wash hands at the same time at two critical times: before eating and after using the toilet.
4. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (O&M):
All water, sanitation and handwashing facilities to be clean, functional and well maintained by ensuring a regular supply of cleaning materials, consumables like soap, disinfectants, brooms, brushes, buckets etc.,
Appointing local sweepers/cleaners, and undertaking repairs of water and sanitation facilities.

13. Seven Essential Elements of Rotary India WinS Program
5. MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES:
including soap, adequate and private space for changing and disposal facilities for menstrual waste, including an incinerator and dust bins.
6. BEHAVIOR CHANGE ACTIVITIES:
Promotion of personal hygiene and school hygiene child cabinets, posters, wall-painting, messaging, events and competitions, water, sanitation and hygiene messages through reading materials & activity based learning methodologies.
Promotion of menstrual hygiene education/management by female teachers.
7. CAPACITY BUILDING:
Development of the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience to facilitate, finance, manage and monitor water, sanitation and hygiene programmes in schools through training of teachers and SMCs for equitable use and maintenance of facilities, including the promotion of hygiene.

14. Three Star Approach to WinS
One Star School
Two Star School
Three Star School
Daily Routines to Promote Healthy Habits
Daily supervised group handwashing with soap, normally before the school meal
Daily supervised cleaning of toilets, and provision of soap and water (at least one functional toilet for girls and one for boys); no open defecation
Daily supervised use of drinking water bottles by all children
Incremental Improvements
Hygiene education and facilities to promote handwashing with soap after toilet use
Improved sanitation facilities, plus facilities & education for menstrual hygiene management
Low cost point-of-use water treatment introduced in schools
Meeting National
Standards
School facilities & systems upgraded to meet national standards
No Star School
The Existing Situation for Many Schools
Limited or no hygiene promotion
May or may not have WASH infrastructure

15. DAILY GROUP HANDWASHING FACILITIES

16. A Clean & Healthy School: A Cycle of Opportunities
Improved Hygiene
Improved Health & Less Disease
Improved Attendance &
Decreased Drop-out-Rate
Better Student Performance
Economic Growth

17. “Swachh Bharat” Let every child be the change that we want to see…….
Rotary India WinS Program
in schools will enable every
child to become an
“Agent of change”
Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya
will lead to our ultimate goal
“Swachh Bharat”

18. Thank You!
PDG. Ramesh Chander( )   Rotary International  District-3011.
District Coordinator WinS (Wash in School Program) Member, National Committee, Rotary India Literacy Mission, Member, Rotary Club of Delhi West