WASH PROGRAM OUTLINE

1. WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE MANAGEMENT
Hamse Mohamed Mohamoud
M.Sc. In Applied Nutrition and Food Technology
Islamic University Kushtia, Bangladesh.

2. INTRODUCTION
 Water, Health, and Sanitation Management
have become a critical element in the
development sector, especially in
developing countries. More than half the
world population cannot access a toilet or
running safe water making the issue a
global priority. Provision of Water,
Hygiene, and Sanitation services is a
concern of every government all over the
world
Waterborne diseases such as diarrhea
are a major contributor to mortality in
developing countries while the
provision of relief and humanitarian
emergency services always have the
WASH component to prevent and
control the spread of communicable
diseases.

3. Water and Sanitation stakeholders are daily tasked with creating innovative
interventions to increase access to WASH services. In addition, investment in
the sector requires that communities adopt behavior changes through
knowledge, attitude changes, and practice (KAP) The outcome is a reduction
in communicable diseases.

4. This course, therefore, captures the following content:
 Cultural issues in water and
sanitation
 Personal Hygiene
 Institutional sanitation and hygiene
 Planning for WASH interventions
 Community involvement and Public
 awareness in water and sanitation
 Foodborne diseases and disease
outbreaks
 Water and Public Health
 Environmental health hazards

5.  Risks in the transmission of communicable
diseases
 Environmental health and managing pollution
 Environmental health planning and
interventions
 Water emergencies including treatment, storage,
and handling of drinking
 Water
 Technologies available to provide safe drinking
water and sanitation facilities
 Water Supply and Urban Water
Sanitation and Waste Management
 Disposing Solid Waste
 Emergency Sanitation
 Evaluating the effectiveness of WASH programs