FSMA Spotlights: Solving the School Sanitation Maintenance Crisis
In this webinar, FSMA Spotlights School sanitation in South Africa and the solutions provided by successful Operations and Management (O&M).
School sanitation in South Africa has become a high-profile issue in recent years, owing to the tragic deaths of multiple learners in unsafe, unimproved pit latrines. Many interventions, including the Presidential Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative, have focused on the provision of new infrastructure to schools with inadequate sanitation. Numerous Water Research Commission (WRC) studies have highlighted that infrastructure only addresses the lack and quality of sanitation provision and that proper management is critical to the ongoing provision of safe, healthy, and dignified sanitation for learners.
This session will focus on the importance of operation and maintenance (O&M) of school sanitation and potential solutions to address the failures in O&M. The speakers will share their experiences and research on school-level management of school sanitation, the potential for private sector involvement in O&M of school toilets, and purchase agreements for toilets with servicing plans. This session will allow participants to learn from the South African experience and ideally share their own experiences from their own context.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A discussion.
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The FSMA Spotlights webinar series aims to highlight key aspects and discussions around FSM and the sanitation service chain.
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