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Capacity Building
Appropriately targeted capacity building is key to the implementation of sustainable and demand-responsive school hygiene, sanitation, and water projects and child-centered hygiene education programs. Frequently, however, insufficient attention is given to targeted capacity building.
To ensure that the capacity building necessary to sustainability takes place, school hygiene, sanitation, and water projects should adhere to two basic principles:
- Ensure that local capacity is built at different levels.
- Recognize that capacity building is central to Bank support in the hygiene, sanitation, and water in schools sector
- Understand that capacity building requires long-term support
- Set realistic objectives about local capacity and build on local knowledge
- Use demand-responsive approaches that recognize the need for social intermediation, outreach, and training
- Define capacity-building components clearly in order to enable all stakeholders to assume their responsibilities.
- Target training to schools (teachers, students, and parents), communities, the private sector and NGOs, and different levels of government
- Use a learning-by-doing approach
- Provide outreach, intermediation, and training before, during, and after the construction of facilities
- Provide training that is time bound and impact oriented, with performance monitoring and targets to measure capacity building
- Develop opportunities for stakeholders to participate and build capacity
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