Water and Sanitation Online Certificate from June to August 2017

Africa Institute for Project Management Studies is pleased to announce a certificate online and distance learning Course in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Management.

Start Date: 10th June 2017

Course End: 10th August 2017

Overall Course Overview:
This basic course outlines the evidence base for WASH as a major contributor to health and wider community development. It outlines the key interventions to be implemented, the relative effectiveness of each component on the disease burden, the practicalities of delivery (i.e. achieving good hygiene behaviors’) indicators of performance and methods for measuring impact.
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

Who Should Participate:
This course is suitable for Wash Officers, Project / Programme Officers, Programme Managers, Students of Health and Development plus other relevant actors as well as those who wish to learn the basics of WASH, have an oversight function on WASH projects and those implementing connected activities in areas such as Water, Sanitation, Health and Nutrition.

Course Outline:

  1. Introduction to Public Health Definitions and Concepts

  2. Global Disease Burden: A Review of Key Health Determinants – The Case of Developing Countries.

  3. Assessing Public Health Priorities in Emergency and Development Settings

  4. Effectiveness of WASH Interventions: The Evidence Base

  5. Direct Water Supply Interventions
    • Types of Water Sources
    • Water Source Protection
    • Determining Water Quantity, Quality and Accessibility

  6. Rural and Urban Communities Sanitation Management
    • Types of Wastes
    • Waste Management

  7. Effective Community Hygiene
    • Understanding Social Behaviour Change
    • Key Community Hygiene Behaviors
    • Sustainable Community Health/Hygiene: Mechanisms for Delivery and Measurement

  8. Typical WASH Aspects:
    • Vector Control (Mosquitoes and other Flies)
    • Housing and Settlement Planning
    • Controlling Indoor Air Pollution.

  9. WASH Performance and Impact Measurement.
    Training Format:
    • All materials are made available through Online or Distance
    Learning approaches
    • Approximately 5-6 hours time commitment of your time per week
    • At your own time schedule, no live participation needed
    • Weekly feedback from committed instructors
    • Participants are expected to submit weekly assignments
    electronically to earn certificate of completion

Materials Provided:
Online delivery of curriculum materials, exercises and templates.

Exercises
After they have read the material for each unit, students are expected
to test their own Learning by completing some relevant exercises and
tasks .

Assignments
In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content,
students will be required to submit Five assignments.

COURSE FEE: $500

Training Approach: Web-based and Distance Learning facilitated

GENERAL COURSE CONTACT

:[email protected]
www.africadevelopmentresources.org

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Thanks

Dear Sir,

Kindly send us an email at [email protected] so we can send you the registration details.

Warm regards and thank you

John