This eight-hour course introduces WASH systems strengthening. It has been created by IRC for the Asian Development Bank.
This course is about understanding how to achieve universal and sustainable WASH service delivery and how to function effectively in the process of systems strengthening.
It is based on the premise that many of the challenges we face in achieving WASH services for everyone, forever, stem from the fact that we do not see WASH service delivery as a system, and that getting rid of this ‘systems blindness’ will lead to improved outcomes in the long run.
The course is self-paced and self-guided.
Course objectives
The objectives of this course are:
- understand and describe what WASH systems entail
- understand and describe how strengthened WASH systems are critical for realising national targets and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- explain the importance of WASH systems strengthening to others
- identify actions and steps to strengthen the WASH systems in your context
Session overview
The online course consists of 6 sessions which each take around 1 hour to complete.
- Session 1: Introducing systems thinking for universal safe WASH services
- Session 2: Interlinkages between WASH services
- Session 3: Leaving no one behind
- Test 1 on Sessions 1 to 3
- Session 4 Strengthening sanitation and hygiene systems
- Session 5: Strengthening water systems
- Session 6: The process of systems strengthening and change
- Test 2 on Sessions 4 to 6, feedback survey and certificate
It's recommended that you work through the course in consecutive order (i.e., from 1 to 6) completing all the sessions.
This course is prepared under "TA 6612-REG: COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control through an Integrated Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Health Approach" of Asian Development Bank
