16/11/2023
Certificate in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
St. James Vocational School is pleased to announce a Certificate in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Course. This is a Distance Learning Course with virtual lectures, which starts 1st of October.
Overall Course Overview
According to the latest estimates of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), released in early 2013 (collected in 2011), 36 per cent of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and 768 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.
The course provides an understanding of WASH in the context of wider public health challenges and illustrates the practical interventions necessary to deliver on health and wider development/emergency needs.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, a student assessed as competent against this qualification will be able to:
- Understand Public Health and appreciate the current and future disease burden in developing countries
- Correlate WASH and Environmental Health with Public Health (including nutrition) in the context of community development
- Understand the practicalities around community water supply, waste management (including drainage), and related environmental health issues for effective community hygiene promotion
- Examine indicators of performance in WASH and wider environmental health
The Following are the Key Thematic Areas Participants Will Cover:
Module 1: WASH Concept
1. Introduction to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
2. Global Disease Burden
3. Assessing Public Health Patterns in Emergencies
4. Effective WASH Interventions
Module 2: Fundamental Elements of Rights Systems
1. Hygiene Promotions
2. Water Supply Standards and Water Quality
3. Water a
