Water Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH – Course out Line Post Graduate Diploma in WASH

Water Sanitation and Hygiene, WASH – Course out Line

 Post Graduate Diploma in WASH

Proposed Centre of Excellence in WASH studies

Concept Note

Introduction.

The largest single factor contributing to most of the millennium development goals (MDGs) is Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).

Poor access to clean drinking water, sanitation and hygiene causes’ pain of disease and death, reduces available financial resources to the family by expenses on disease and lost working hours. Children miss school due to illness and girls leave school due to non availably of separate bath rooms. Worms in the intestine are a strong competitor for already scarce food available to the family. In some areas collection of water takes the mother and /or elder sister away for 2-4 hours, thus leaving younger folk unattended and exposing them and the elders to so many hazards.

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Many local and international conferences, 5^th WWF (world water forum) highlighted the lack of capacity to address this issue, even those at the helm of affairs. There is a gap between on ground issues, top designers and the service providers, implementers, NGOs, UN organizations, Though academia interested in improving upon this cross cutting issue to many social , economic development indicators the need for a concerted effort is at the peak..

We seriously need is to unpack the issue, educate youngsters to lead the solutions for improving this situation and take seats in the implementing and planning authorities.

  

Vision

Multiple impact of inattention to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Human development factors like health, education, poverty and a strong family system has enhanced the attention to this aspect of human life, especially in south Asia and Africa.

At times we feel that this is the largest single factor contributing to our backwardness. Luckily much is also being done to address this issue, though not in a scientific way. The field work is being led by many NGO’s and public sector organizations, based on experience and insufficient knowledge base.

Capacity building in the field has been marked as a real need in this direction in World Water Forum, and follow up meetings at the national and local level.

The objective of this program is to provide youngsters with appropriate knowledge base and field exposure to work in this upcoming profession at all levels and gain an opportunity to rub their shoulders with  WASH specialists at the UN organizations, INGOS , NGO”S and public sector organizations.

This initiative provides them a lead position to help the nation out of poverty, illiteracy, disease and death, rampant in south Asia and Africa.

 Objectives

1.     Bringing the stake holders on one table to agree on a consensus course work, for future staff handling wash in Pakistan and south Asia.

2.     Having educated and trained staff available to implement and lead projects with viable solutions to WASH issues.

3.     Play their role in public sector, development sector and UN groups with the knowledge and exposure gained through their course work.

4.     Bridge the current gap of relevant knowledge and experience in improving WASH situation.

5.     This program envisages exposure of these youngsters to on ground issues and working with NGO, INGOs, UN specialists and finally assimilating this knowledge and experience with the help of academia.

6.     Move to phase two of this program which hopes to focus on research work, new policy studies and more refined standards of water, satiation and hygiene.

7.     Phase two will also focus on standards for water sanitation hard ware,  installation and supervising the projects.

 Work Plan.

1.     Having a board of studies from Academia, development sector, and public sector.

2.     Selection of course of study, a basic framework is appended at annex-1.

3.     Teaching work and practical exposure (Research and internship) to be done at University, HRDS and public sector organizations.

4.     Experimental start of online lectures, study martial and assignments will be done, using virtual university model.

5.     The course fee is expected to be enough to meet the expenses without any financial help from out side.

6.     Bringing the stake holders on one table to agree on a consensus course work, for future staff handling wash in Pakistan and south Asia.

7.     Having educated and trained staff available to implement and lead projects with viable solutions to WASH issues.

8.     Play their role in public sector, development sector and UN groups with the knowledge and exposure gained through their course work.

9.     Bridge the current gap of relevant knowledge and experience in improving WASH situation.

10.                        This program envisages exposure of these youngsters to on ground issues and working with NGO, INGOs, UN specialists and finally assimilating this knowledge and experience with the help of academia.

11.                        Move to phase two of this program which hopes to focus on research work, new policy studies and more refined standards of water, satiation and hygiene.

12.                         Phase two will also focus on standards for water sanitation hard ware,  installation and supervising the projects,

13.                        Having a board of studies from Academia, development sector, and public sector.

14.                        Selection of course of study, a basic framework is appended at annex-1.

15.                        Teaching work and practical exposure (Research and internship) to be done at University, HRDS and public sector organizations.

16.                        Experimental start of online lectures, study martial and assignments will be done, using virtual university model.

17.                        The course fee is expected to be enough to meet the expenses without any financial help from out side.

Suggested Reading.

 

1      Wash Definitions

1.1      Water

1.2      Sanitation

1.3      Solid waste

1.4      Liquid waste

1.5      Hospital waste           

1.6    MDG, (millennium development goals)                                          

2      Socio Economic Impact of WASH

2.1      Disease and death

2.2      Poverty

2.3      Education

2.4      Family time and resources increased

2.5      Human Development Index (HDI)

3      Water

3.1      National Water Policy

3.2      National drinking water policy

3.3      National water quality Standards

3.4      Standards PSQCA, WHO and Ministry of Environment

3.5      How much water daily?

3.6      Role of water in human body, Disease relationship

3.7      Water  quality Issues , Microbiology, Chemical, Arsenic, Fluoride Nitrate and its health impact

3.8      National water Quality Monitoring Program (NWQMP) at Ministry of Science and Technology. (PCRWR)

3.9      Clean drinking water for all Program (CDWA)

3.10   Water issues Quantity and Quality

3.11   Mixing of untreated sewerage water in canals, rivers and ground water

3.12   Availability of affordable and timely water testing facility, in accordance with our own standards.

3.13   Control at water treatment plants

3.14   Controlling the wastage of water at car and domestic floor washing, and garden irrigation

3.15   National water Act (DRAFT)

4      Sanitation

4.1      National Sanitation Policy

4.2      Safe disposal of solid waste

4.3      Segregation

4.4      Recycle

4.5      Land fills

4.6      Disposal of night soil from homes

4.7      Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)

4.8      Open Defecation Free systems (ODF)

5      Liquid waste

5.1      Safe disposal of domestic waste and industrial waste

5.2      Design of septic tanks

5.3      Connection to sewerage lines

5.4      Treatment of domestic waste water

5.5      Treatment of industrial waste water

5.6      Recycle of treated water

5.7      Check use of untreated water in Perry urban vegetable gardens

5.8      National environment quality standards (NEQS)

5.9      National environment act

6      Hospital waste

6.1      Collection

6.2      Segregation

6.3      Safe disposal sharp and contaminated material

6.4       Training of staff

6.5      Incinerators and

6.6      National hospital waste management practices, Ministry of Environment

7      Hygiene

1.1      Cleaning surroundings

7.1      Body

7.2      Hair cut

7.3      Nails

7.4      Clothes

7.5      Clean hands with soap

7.6      Availability of soap for hand washing in Mosques, Schools and Hospitals

7.7      Female specific Hygiene, use of sun dried clean cotton cloth

7.8      School program for hygiene improvement

  

8      Emergency  WASH

8.1      Pakistan’s experience in Emergency WASH program, in case of

 Earth Quake, Floods and IDPs.

9       Institutions involved with WASH

9.1      Ministry of Science and Technology

9.2      Ministry of Environment

9.3      Ministry of Special Initiatives

9.4      Ministry of Health

9.5      Ministry of Local Governments

9.6      Ministry of Water

9.7      WASA

9.8      PHED

9.9      TMA

9.10   KDA. LDA, CDA, PDA. QDA, FDA, and the like

10   Non Government

10.1   NGOS

10.2   INGOs

10.3   UN outfits

10.4   PCRWR

10.5   PCSIR

10.6   PSQCA

10.7   UN

10.8   UNICEF

10.9   WHO

10.10   World Bank WSP

10.11   ADB

10.12   Plan

10.13   Water Aid

10.14   Global water Partnership

10.15   GSF

10.16   Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)

11   Forum

11.1   World Water Forum

11.2   SACOSAN

11.3   WSSCC

11.4   GSF

11.5   WSP

11.6   PACOSAN.

12   South Asian Studies

Follow up studies on wash programs in the following countries and a comparison with local initiatives

12.1   Africa

12.2   Bangladesh

12.3   India

12.4   Nepal

12.5   Sri Lanka

  

13. Laboratory Work

14. Research Thesis

15. Internship Report

16. Report / proposal writing

17. Monitoring and evaluation

18.  Advocacy and supportive advocacy