E-conference on SSHE

Objectives and target audience

The objective of this e-conference was to create a debate between all actors concerned with SSHE on:

• how we can create the large-scale conditions that will enable every child to learn in a healthy and safe school environment; and
• how we can ensure that every child masters and spreads good sanitation and hygiene practices in and throughout their local school as well as their home.

These themes were:

• Making all SSHE programmes work: what are the necessary conditions and aspects for effective, successful and sustainable SSHE programmes?
• Putting the child at the centre: how can we create the conditions for meaningful participation of children, and how can we create an environment in which they have the right to speak and act in the different stages and aspects of SSHE programmes?
• Overcoming the hurdles and scaling up: how can we create the large-scale conditions that will enable every child to learn in a healthy and safe school environment and master and spread good sanitation and hygiene practices in and throughout their local school as well as their home?

Agenda

The e-conference was organized around each of these themes, with two weeks being devoted to each theme:

The conference was facilitated by Christine van Wijk from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.