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School led total sanitation

The national sanitation policy and draft AJK Sanitation Policy asks for realization of total sanitation outcomes, beginning with eradication of open defecation and improved hygiene practices, KCT proposes that building upon the SSD previous year SLTS pilot project, a scaled model of the SLTS be implemented. Hence KCT proposes to target eradication of open defecation from around 20 sites/villages in earthquake affected districts Muzaffarabad where teachers have already received training in CTC approaches and children are more or less familiar with hygiene issues. In other words the proposed project will address the problem of open defecation in these 20 sites through School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) approach which essentially is a combination of both Child to Child (CTC) and Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) strategies. In more elaborate terms, in CLST approach community action to eradicate open defecation is triggered through certain PRA tools by community activists, in SLTS, similar PRA tools are utilized but the process is triggered through the teachers and students by using CTC approach in changing sanitation behavior in the community, since KCT has program presence in Muzaffarabad it will directly implement proposed SLTS project in 20 villages in districts Muzaffarabad, However KCT will capacitate their staff from SSD assistance through training, on job training, hand holding and technical backstopping to implement the SLTS approach . This will allow realization of identified targets as well as leaving behind local capacities and skills to allow replication through localized resources.

Mobilization of School Children as ODF change agent

            Increasing student’s knowledge about health and disease prevention should therefore only be part of the story. When knowledge is supported by enabling and reinforcing factors, desirable changes may occur in the school setting and in the community. This stresses the importance of combining hygiene education with the construction of water and environmental sanitation facilities and involving the students, teachers, community and other concerned governmental institution in school sanitation and hygiene (SSH).KCT sees children as agents of change themselves as they are ready recipients of new experiences and act as very effective change agents to bring about qualitative environmental sanitation changes not only schools but in the households and in the greater community as well.

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