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This module addresses the waste management principles, waste management procedures for waste streams such as general waste, infectious waste, pathological waste, food waste and Covid -19 waste. Additionally, it describes... Read more »

A training curriculum which accompanies the Zambian standards and SOPs for WASH and IPC in health care facilities.

The WASH FIT training package has been completely revised and updated. The complete package is available to download here which includes seven modules and supplementary materials: Introduction to WASH in HCF and links with health WASH FIT Methodology Five technical modules: Water; Sanitation; Health care waste management; Hand hygiene; Environmental cleaning & disinfection. You are encouraged to modify and adapt the slides as you need, e.g. changing photos or text to make them more relevant to your setting. If you have any questions or comments on the training materials, please get in touch washinhcf@who.int. WASH FIT & COVID-19: This training package was developed before the outbreak of COVID-19. A short summary of the most relevant technical guidance for WASH & COVID-19 have subsequently been included in each technical module. A shortened version of the WASH FIT assessment tool to use where a rapid evaluation of services is needed is also available on Kobo Toolbox. It is available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Report from a training of primary health care managers implementing WASH FIT in Cox's Bazaar camp, Bangladesh.

This template was used at a workshop in Zambia in September 2019. The template should be printed in A1 size i.e. very big (!) and used in workshop exercises for participants to write on while they discuss each point. The final product can be used as an aide memoire for countries to take steps in building workforce capacity to support WASH in health care facilities improvement.

Proceedings of an SNV Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) learning event

Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services held a training on WASH in HCF for medical practitioners in June 2019.

A Presentations given at WASH Futures: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conference 2016

Reports from an 8-country WASH FIT workshop in Dakar, Senegal, 2016.

Meeting Reports from a regional meeting on health care waste management held in Kathmandu, Nepal, November 2016.