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Proposal Formulation
The school hygiene committee of each pre-selected school will prepare a proposal according to standard guidelines and templates laid out in a Project Implementation Manual (29Kb Word). The basis of a project proposal is a situation assessment and base line study (26Kb Word). Templates and guidelines are available for conducting these and for developing a full project proposal. The Project can provide technical assistance to enable each school to produce a proposal that meets the guidelines.
Proposals need to demonstrate that the project is likely to be successful over the long term. Experience has shown that successful hygiene, sanitation, and water in schools projects require sustainable school organizational arrangements and service levels that the school community is can operate and maintain over time. Such projects have specific characteristics:
- They adopt an integrated intersectoral approach that includes life skills-based hygiene education, construction of child-friendly facilities, and consideration of health and environmental factors;
- They include advocacy activities at different levels: project, local, regional, national, international;
- They clearly define the responsibilities of the different sectors involved in the delivery of hygiene, sanitation, and water services;
- They involve both primary beneficiaries (schools and students) and secondary beneficiaries (parents, family and community, local public health organizations, and local governments) to ensure that the anticipated outcomes are realized;
- They promote consultation and coordination among the different stakeholders (schools, students, parents, communities, local public health organizations, local governments, engineers, health and education professionals);
- They protect the interests of children at all times, especially when the use of child labor is considered for construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities;
- They lend themselves to alternative technical designs and levels of service with various cost and management implications;
- They include an operation and maintenance system that demands active commitment, participation, and involvement on the part of the school.
Drawing by Jaap Zomerplaag
Technical assistance can help schools demonstrate the likelihood that their projects will be successful by showing them how to consider and incorporate essential elements:
- Analysis of existing school hygiene and sanitary conditions;
- Choice of service level options for water supply, sanitation, and hand washing facilities;
- Determination of the cost of capital and operation and maintenance and the level and mobilization of contributions by the national and/or local government, parents and students;
- Outline of an integrated plan for life skills-based hygiene education;
- Organization of the School Hygiene Committee and identification of its responsibilities and training requirements;
- Formulation of an operation and maintenance plan;
- Formulation of a financial management plan (22Kb Word) to finance operation and maintenance;
- Identification of potential environmental and social safeguard concerns and outline of a plan for addressing them.
Checklist of Key Components:
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