This short intensive online course of 8 hours was developed for USAID Thrive WASH Isoko y’Ubuzima project. It is intended to provide you with a better understanding of WASH systems strengthening and your own role in it.
Course objectives
This course covers the basic concepts of WASH systems strengthening. It is about understanding how to achieve sustainable WASH service delivery for all and how to function effectively in the process. It will help you understand the WASH systems strengthening approach.
Course objectives are to understand:
- what is WASH systems strengthening.
- how and why was WASH systems strengthening developed.
- how to start applying WASH systems strengthening.
At the end of the course, you will have a good understanding of the WASH systems strengthening approach.
Duration
This self-paced and self-guided online course takes around eight hours to complete. Each online session has specific objectives, which are outlined at the start.
Session overview
This course has six sessions which take an average of one hour per session to complete. Complete all the sessions in consecutive order (i.e. from Session 1 to 6).
The sessions overview:
- Welcome!
- Session 1: Introducing the WASH Systems Academy
- Session 2: From broken pumps to lasting services
- Session 3: What is WASH systems strengthening?
- Test 1 on sessions 1 - 3
- Session 4: WASH is a service
- Session 5: It is about more than safe water.
- Session 6: Applying WASH systems strengthening
- Test 2 on sessions 4 - 6 and course certificate
- Course resources
