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    The document outlines 10 immediate actions schools can take to manage WASH facilities and promote hygiene practices upon reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions include setting up handwashing stations, ensuring adequate water and supplies, establishing cleaning and monitoring protocols, training staff, and promoting hygiene behavior change. Taking these steps will help schools reopen safely and prevent the spread of disease.

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    The document outlines 10 immediate actions schools can take to manage WASH facilities and promote hygiene practices upon reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions include setting up handwashing stations, ensuring adequate water and supplies, establishing cleaning and monitoring protocols, training staff, and promoting hygiene behavior change. Taking these steps will help schools reopen safely and prevent the spread of disease.

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    WASH in SCHOOLS NETWORK

    10  I MMEDIATE
    WASH in SCHOOLS
    (WinS) ACTIONS
    5 WASTE MANAGEMENT
    Ensure bins are located in classrooms, in toilet blocks and at
    strategic locations on school grounds and are safely emptied daily
    using waste management system.

     REPARING FOR REOPENING


    P 6 PHYSICAL DISTANCING
    OF SCHOOLS — SUPPORT FOR Make sure children and school staff adhere to physical distancing
    SCHOOL HEADS TO MANAGE keeping at least 1 metre apart (or as recommended by national
    guidelines). Possible options are: Assign children to specific shifts,
    THE RESPONSE TO COVID-19 stagger the beginning and end of the school days as well as during
    breaks, create space between desks or teach outdoors or with
    open windows, if possible, and paint or tape lines on the floor to
    demonstrate physical distance at places where students line up
    or gather (e.g. in front of toilets or washing stations).

    7 ESTABLISH A MONITORING TEAM


    Assign staff member(s) — teachers and staff like cleaners, guards,
    gardeners or older students, community members and WASH clubs,
    etc. — to oversee handwashing stations and toilets (availability of
    1 HANDWASHING water and soap, maintenance issues, handwashing behavior and
    compliance of rules for physical distancing etc.).
    Set up available handwashing facilities with soap at the entrance
    of schools (tippy taps, buckets with taps, group washing facilities)
    with sufficient water taps that allow physical distance so that 8 ORIENTATION/TRAINING
    children, teachers, staff and visitors can wash hands before entering Organize orientation for all teachers, non-teaching staff and
    school. Make sure that toilets have functional handwashing facilities community members on WASH in Schools and Covid-19 and ensure
    with soap and water. Facilities should be accessible to all users. that everyone understands their specific role. Ensure teachers orient
    the learners, by using age appropriate hygiene promotion materials.
    2 WATER AVAILABILITY
    Ensure water is available for handwashing, drinking, and other uses. 9 CHECKLISTS
    If inconsistent or inadequate water supply is a concern for the school, Introduce and ensure the use of checklists (including: date,
    increase the water storage capacity with the help of the community time when checked, name of responsible person) for teachers
    or ask children to bring a bottle of water from home, if possible. and non-teaching staff to ensure routines are implemented daily.
    Specifically, introduce checklists for:
    3 SUPPLIES > School entrance (handwashing behaviour,
    Calculate the need and ensure sufficient supply for consumable handwashing stations, water and soap availability)
    resources, including: soap (bar or liquid), hand sanitizer (with at > Classrooms (cleaning & disinfection protocol)
    least 70% alcohol concentration, only if contextually relevant) and > Toilets and waste management
    sodium hypochlorite for cleaning/disinfecting (household bleach
    diluted to 0,1%), sponges, brooms and buckets, and protective 10 HYGIENE CULTURE
    equipment such as face masks and gloves for cleaners. Alcohol-
    Establish a culture of hygiene in school and encourage hygiene
    based disinfectants with at least a 70% alcohol concentration
    behavior change in the community. Emphasize that all teaching
    may be used as an alternative to bleach.
    and non-teaching staff are part of a team working to address
    pandemic preparedness and response and make sure that education
    4 CLEANING & DISINFECTING can move on and schools are clean and safe places. Recognize
    Ensure regular cleaning and disinfecting according to national individual WASH champions in school and community.
    guidelines and global recommendations. High touch surfaces
    should be prioritized for disinfection. Always clean surfaces
    with soap and water or detergent to remove organic matter CONTACT: WinS-COVID-19@susana.org
    prior to disinfection. Calculate the time needed, ensure that FURTHER INFORMATION: www.susana.org
    staff for cleaning and disinfecting are available and uses > ‘10 IMMEDIATE WinS ACTIONS’ (latest version):
    gloves and face masks. Involve the Parents Teacher Association, https://bit.ly/367F7ur
    community members and students as needed and appropriate > KNOWLEDGE MAP ‘WASH in SCHOOLS
    for cleaning. Ensure handwashing stations and toilet facilities & CORONAVIRUS’: https://bit.ly/2JDvM39
    are usable and clean. > ‘SAFE BACK TO SCHOOL: A PRACTITIONER’S
    GUIDE’: https://bit.ly/2zS3UHr

    5th June 2020 // The WASH in Schools (WinS) Network (GIZ, UNICEF, Save the Children, Water Aid, and others) is a global inter-agency network of WinS practitioners from respective institutions which comprises of over 60 organizations.

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