CERTIFICATE IN WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE

CERTIFICATE IN WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE

Course Overview

According to the latest estimates of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), released in early 2013 (collected in 2011), 36 per cent of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and 768 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.

The course provides an understanding of WASH in the context of wider public health challenges and illustrates the practical interventions necessary to deliver on health and wider development/emergency needs.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, a student assessed as competent against this qualification will be able to:

• Understand public health and appreciate the current and future disease burden in developing countries

• Correlate WASH and Environmental Health with Public Health (including nutrition) in the context of community development

• Understand the practicalities around community water supply, waste management (including drainage), and related environmental health issues for effective community hygiene promotion

• Examine indicators of performance in WASH and wider environmental health

Course Outline

1.0 MODULE 1 – INTRODUCTION TO WASH
1.1 Introduction To Water, Sanitation And Hygiene
1.2 Global Availability Of Fresh Water
1.3 Right To Water & Sanitation – Un Global Development Goals
1.4 Post 2015 Wash Development Agenda
Module 1 Assignment Questions

2.0 MODULE  2 – SANITATION & HYGIENE 
2.1 Sanitation In Schools
2.2 Sustainable Sanitation
2.3 Hygiene Improvement
2.4 Disease Transmission Routes & The F‐Diagram
Module 2 Assignment Questions

3.0 MODULE 3 – CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES IN WASH
3.1 Participation
3.2 Gender
3.3 Environment
3.4 Inclusion of Most Vulnerable (People With HIV/Aids, Elderly & Disabled And Children)
Module 3 Assignment Questions

Final Exam Questions

Assignments

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit three assignments.

 DURATION: 3 Months

REGIONS TARGETED: Global

COURSE FEE: $400

ORGANIZERS: AFRICA CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN STUDIES

LANGUAGE: English and French

FORMAT: Online Learning

GENERAL COURSE CONTACT: info@humanitarianstudies.org

Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be issued a certificate.