SWASH+

Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Plus Community Impact, the SWASH+ project, is a five-year applied research project to identify, develop, and test innovative approaches to school-based water, sanitation and hygiene in Nyanza Province, Kenya. The partners that form the SWASH+ consortium are CARE, Emory University, the Great Lakes University of Kisumu, the Government of Kenya, and Water.org. SWASH+ is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Water Challenge.

Since September 2006, SWASH+ has worked in 185 primary schools in four districts in Nyanza Province, gathering data, learning about challenges and testing solutions for school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

6 years of school WASH research have come together!

SWASH+ is an action-research and advocacy project focused on increasing the scale, impact and sustainability of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in Kenya. Since September 2006, SWASH+ has worked in 185 primary schools in four districts in Nyanza Province, Kenya to identify challenges and analyse innovative solutions for sustaining school WASH. The project’s randomized controlled trials and numerous sub-studies have resulted in a compendium of journal articles, research reports, one-page research summaries, stories from the field, photo essays and videos now available on this website.

School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Myths proved and disproved

Power point presentation on the findings of the SWASH+ project; on what was learned as far as validating (or invalidating) some of the common assumptions around school WASH and trying to answer some of the more perplexing questions.

About SWASH+

This section contains background information and highlights from the SWASH+ project:

Key Findings from SWASH+

Key findings from the SWASH+ project:

SWASH+ Resources

This folder contains the SWASH+ documents by category:

SWASH+ Stories

Stories from the SWASH+ project:

SWASH+ Videos

Videos compiled by CARE for the SWASH+ project:

SWASH+ Photo Essays

Photo essays created for the SWASH+ programme on topics which arose during the project period:

Video

WASH in Schools empowers girls' education

This publication compiles the result of a collaboration between Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and UNICEF. It captures outstanding Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) efforts and the MHM challenges schoolgirls face in many countries, a topic that until recently was considered too secretive and taboo to address in most contexts.

WASH in Schools empowers girls' education