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School Sanitation and Hygiene Education Course
This course on SSHE deals with both the 'hardware' and 'software' aspects needed to bring about changes in hygiene behaviour of students and in communities. The hardware is the total package of sanitary conditions and facilities available in and around the school compound. The software is the activities aiming to promote conditions at school and practise of school staff and children that help to prevent water and sanitation-related diseases.

The course is targeted towards programme staff involved in working in government and the private sector that may become trainers in the area of School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE). In addition trainers/facilitators of organisations wanting to develop learning-oriented training courses for their field staff on SSHE.

The purpose of the course is to enhance the capacity of professional staff, trainers, and facilitators who may give training in the area of SSHE. The specific objectives are:

• To allow participants to develop and organize country-specific courses for field staff on SSHE
• To update knowledge on the major issues related to SSHE aspects in the programme cycle which participants can use in their training courses
• To comprehend how participatory learning methodologies can be used in training settings on SSHE
• To enable participants to translate these SSHE issues into a training package

The course methodology is based on adult learning principles, building upon participants' existing experiences and knowledge, and promoting active participation in all sessions, including relevant excursions, using state of the art participatory learning methodologies. Two field trips will be made around Uganda which is considered to have a strong SSHE programme. The course will therefore not be limited to content and training methods but will also address training management issues and identification of modalities for structural long-term collaboration between IRC and the institutes in which participants work.

The course content starts with an assessment of the SSHE sector, the training needs and the market potential in the various countries from which the participants have come. Once a country assessment has been made, participants will focus on contents and deal with SSHE issues from both the 'software' and 'hardware' side. After a focus on content issues, the participants will develop specific skills as well as lesson plans required for their targeted trainees. These skills in addition to the other contextual knowledge from the course provide the building blocks for participants to develop their own SSHE training programme in the own country.
Date: July 8-17th 2003

Place: Kampala, Uganda
Contact: NETWAS, Uganda or IRC