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Online and Distance Learning Certificate Course in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Management

Start Date: 2nd week of every Month

Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Management

Access to clean water, good sanitation and hygiene is very important and plays a key role in the good health practices and wider community development. Poor WASH practices can lead to diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, typhoid, pneumonia, trachoma, malaria, yellow fever and many others.

It is widely accepted that provision of WASH services will only bring benefits if the people using the services are willing to recognize their own role and responsibilities, by adopting good hygiene practices and new methods of waste disposal. The users should also be able to participate in, or at least be aware of, the planning, design and management of WASH services..

 Aim of the Course

The course provides learners with an understanding of WASH principles to improve sustainable access to domestic water supply, sanitation and hygiene behaviors.

Course Content

  1. Introduction to WASH
  2. Role of Frontline WASH workers
  3. Introduction to the Principles and Concepts of Hygiene and Environmental Health
  4. Environmental Health Hazards
  5. Public Health
  6. Sanitation
  7. Assessing public health in emergency and development setting
  8. Emergency WASH Behavior
  9. Water provision, control and pollution
  10. Treatment of Drinking Water at Household and Community Level
  11. Community Drinking Water Source Protection
  12. Urban WASH
  13. Existing WASH Service Provision
  14. Stakeholders in Urban WASH
  15. Sustainability of WASH services
  16. Monitoring and Evaluation

Course Outcome

  • Describe the characteristics of urban communities and how they can affect behaviour and environmental responsibility.
  • Explain the importance of social accountability and community involvement for effective and sustainable WASH services.
  • Discuss the different approaches that are available to influence people’s behaviour in the home, in schools and other institutions, and in the wider community.
  • Plan and undertake community engagement activities to achieve sustainable change in WASH behaviour.
  • Explain how monitoring and evaluation should be used to assess impact of WASH interventions.
  • Examine indicators of performance in WASH and wider environmental health

Eligibility:

This course is suitable for people working in civil society of Non-governmental organizations, government institutions, water industries, those working os supporting work in low and middle income areas/countries, and any other individual who wants an understanding of approaches to WASH situations especially in the developing world.

Course Organizers

Intex Management Institute was registered in 1983. We have been offering a wide range of Human Resource Management training programs both online and open workshops, building capacity to enhance effective service delivery for NGOs, CBOs, Public and Private sector.

Currently we are training participants from various organizations such as UNDP – Burundi, World Food Programme – Zimbabwe, Red Cross – South Sudan, State Ministry of Education – South Sudan, MEDAIR – South Sudan, Norwegian Refugee – Liberia, Zenab for Women Development - Sudan, Action AID, Word Health Organization, AMREF, USAID, National AIDs Control Council, International Committee of the Red Cross among others.

Training methodology:

  • All training materials will be availed through online or distance learning.
  • You are expected to submit  by-weekly assignments via email
  • You will receive feedback from our committed instructors.
  • Learn at your own time schedule
  • At the end of the course you will be issued with a certificate.

 Other requirements

  • You will be required to use email, upload and download documents in MS-Word format.

 Learning materials

Course materials and Assignments will be provided at the beginning of the course,
 Course Exercises

Students are required to test their own learning by completing exercises and tasks for each unit of the course.

Course Assignments

Students will be required to submit four assignments to demonstrate their understanding of the course content.

Course Duration       :     8 weeks (2 months)

Target Region             :       Global
Course                       :       USD 400

Language                   :       English