WASH United's fun, game and sport-based activities to raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene - Various documents on results from grant

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This library entry contains background documents for a grant that WASH United (Thorsten Kiefer, Ina Jurga) is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Further information and a discussion is available on the SuSanA discussion Forum, see link below.

Name of lead organization: WASH United (contractual management by GIZ)

Primary contact at lead organization: Thorsten Kiefer, CEO; Ina Jurga, Head of WASH in Schools

Grantee location: Berlin, Germany

Developing country where the project has been carried out: Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Lesotho, India.

Short description of the project
Under the grant, WASH United has implemented the following activities in the target countries of Uganda, Ethiopia, Lesotho and Kenya: i) Public awareness campaigns ii) Media work and iii) WASH in Schools (except Ethiopia).

In India, where we had originally only planned a small test campaign on cricket grew, our idea for a travelling WASH carnival caught the imagination of the entire sector. In the end, actors such as the Government of India, Arghyam, SDC, Unicef, WSSCC, WaterAid and many more joined the “Nirmal Bharat Yatra/Great WASH Yatra” to turn it into a multi-channel mega-campaign

Goal(s):
Goal of the project was to raise the profile of and the awareness for sanitation and hygiene in Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda, both among the general public and among poor and marginalized people.
Purpose: to tackle the taboos related to sanitation and hygiene and raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Objectives:
WASH United programme has defined the following 3 objectives:
1. Close the relevance-gap between WASH and other more attractive development issues and turn WASH into a key social and development issue;
2. Promote WASH behavior change in schools and football teams that can reduce morbidity and mortality from diarrheal diseases among children and adolescents;
3. Build WASH United’s capacity to engage in a broader range of campaigns, regions, and audiences.

Start and end date:
30 September 2011 - 30 June 2013

Grant type:
“Other” (Global Development Grant)

Research or implementation partners:
GIZ has managed the Grant on behalf of WASH United. In countries we have strategic partners and country coordinators.
Ethiopia: WASH Ethiopia Movement
Kenya: Hakijami Trust, from March 2013 onwards own office team. Local partners have been Matahare Youth Sport Association (MYSA), Hodari and Our Child Foundation.
Uganda: Uganda Water and Sanitation Network (UWASNET) with local partners YES, CIDI, Divine Waters, and Kampala City Council Authority.
India: Quicksand, from December 2012 onwards own project team


Links, further readings – results to date:
www.wash-united.org
www.facebook.com/WASHUnited
www.nirmalbharatyatra.org (for the Great WASH Yatra , see below)

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Documents available for download below:
1 - Article 'Show diarrhoea the red card' - Author: Ina Jurga (July 2013)

Bibliographic information

WASH United (2013). WASH United's fun, game and sport-based activities to raise the profile of sanitation and hygiene - Various documents on results from grant. WASH United, Germany

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East Asia & Pacific English Fundamental research and engineering Games and activities (adult learning) Schools Sub-Saharan Africa

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