Notes and News - May 2007 - English

Year of publication: 2007

This issue of Notes & News focuses on the Global Information Sharing Project (GISP). The project as launched in 2006 by UNICEF and IRC aims to provide worldwide stakeholders with high quality essential information for WASH in schools programming.

One of the products of the project has been the documentation of case studies on interesting WASH in schools experiences. The article on “Scaling-up considerations: learning from cases collected through the Global Information Sharing Project”, highlights quality and sustainability issues that are essential for scaling-up and summarises crucial elements from the different case studies. The article on the work of UNICEF Malawi describes the current shift to an approach in which the community and the schools take the lead in constructing and management of facilities. This new approach focuses on partnerships and local institutions and appears to be cheaper, more sustainable and has an empowering effect on the community. The article after this entitled “girl-friendly latrines for Ghanaian schoolgirls” focuses specifically on the needs for appropriate sanitation facilities for adolescent girls.

This issue also includes a summary and provides web links to all twelve case studies produced in the framework of the Global Information Sharing Project.

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