Strategy and impact

WASH: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

This course is aimed at those designing or implementing a water, sanitation and hygiene project or considering the improvement of WASH facilities at a school or healthcare facility.

Worldwide, 1.9 million deaths could have been prevented in 2016 with adequate WASH.

The course encourages us, within our Salvation Army context, to consider some of the wider programmatic opportunities in WASH and to seek to reduce diarrhoeal disease and improve dignity and access to WASH rights through an integrated WASH approach.

The course is best taken in its entirety although individual modules may be useful for improvement of knowledge in a particular area.

About this course

  • Online, self-directed course
  • Fifteen hours to complete
  • Part of the Global Specialisation Sectors area of study
  • Course Developers: Colin McCubbin PhD FRSPH, Joanne Beale (Programme Resources Community Development Lead)

Modules

  1. Introduction and Background to WASH 1
  2. Introduction and Background to WASH 2
  3. Introduction to Water Supply 1
  4. Introduction to Water Supply 2
  5. Sanitation
  6. Hygiene Behaviour 1
  7. Hygiene Behaviour 2
  8. WASH in Schools
  9. WASH in Health Care Facilities

Learning outcomes

  1. Understand the importance of an integrated approach to WASH.
  2. Design a context specific WASH programme with tangible impacts through the understanding of different approaches and technologies.
  3. Confidently design or assess WASH infrastructure for health facilities and schools that meet the needs of the most vulnerable.
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