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Regional Symposium: Water, sanitation and hygiene in schools promoted by UNICEF Regional Coordinator LM

April, 2009. UNICEF and the Consortium SWASH + ( involving CARE, Water For People, CRS and Millennium Water Alliance ) and Plan International Regional Symposium promote Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Schools, as an opportunity to exchange experiences and develop national and regional strategies to integrate the issue in public policies and programs relating to the sector.

The provision of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene in schools, especially hand washing, it becomes crucial to achieving the full realization of the rights of children to education and a healthy environment and dignity, rights inherent and indivisible for all children without exception.

In Latin America at least 25% of schools do not have adequate drinking water facilities and a third of them have no health in numbers sufficient and / or in good condition.

In recent years there have been efforts to improve health and quality of life of communities in schools, through the provision of infrastructure, promotion of hygiene and health education to children, but many of these experiences and their impact could not be viewed broadly and has been limited only to the area of \u200b\u200bintervention. Needed, then spaces for analysis, socialization and replication of these projects and initiatives that enable them sustainable, leading to a national / regional level.

For this reason UNICEF, the Consortium SWASH + (Involving CARE, Water For People, CRS and Millennium Water Alliance) and Plan International have been promoting the Regional Symposium on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools, as an opportunity to exchange experiences and develop strategies to bring all this knowledge acquired at a scale and impact.

To participate in this Regional Symposium are invited to submit a summary of their experiences in the selection process. Receipt of proposals closes May 3, 2009 . The results of the selection process will be announced on May 10, 2009, through direct communication.

For more information, contact: Jesus Trelles ( jtrelles@unicef.org ) Rebeca Carrion ( rcarrion@unicef.org ) both of the UNICEF regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean, or Mark Duey (mduey@waterforpeople.org ) SWASH + program Millennium Water Program - Central America.

can also consult the following site: www.unicef.org / lac

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internships in Peru BM

April 3, 2009 . In late March, regional coordinator LM Initiative for Central America, had the opportunity to do an internship in Peru, following the invitation of the Water and Sanitation Programme of the WB.

As a result of this internship was learned the strategy, how to operationalize the model work, efforts and successes achieved to get allies in the private sector, forms of measurement and control, among others. It was also made field visits to the city of Ica and Huaral, where they could observe the work done by local coordinator of the ILM, the training sessions that are given to the social partners, participated in coordination meetings to sensitize stakeholders involved and to organize social mobilization.

This exchange has been useful to better understand how to apply the LM model in Central and design a regional strategy adapted to local realities.

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Progress in the process PROMAS Costa Rica in Central America ended

March, 2009 . As of March is recognized that there was a breakthrough in linformación collection of fact sheets on Handwashing in 4 countries of the region: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and El Salvador. Such information represents an input for the preparation of the regional proposal Handwashing Initiative, which will allow for financial management.

Nicaragua also shows significant progress in collecting information having already prepared a national strategy and plan of action for the first year of work.

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National Strategy for Nicaragua

April 3.2009. On March 25, 2009, Mr. Nicolas Coto, Director of FOCARD-APS, held a meeting with staff of the Handwashing Initiative (ILM) in Costa Rica, comprising: Royden Alvarado, Mariano Zuñiga ( MINSA) and Maritza Alvarado and Gretel Corrales, representatives of the Institute of Aqueducts Costaricense and Sewers (AyA), in order to know their progress in the process of ILM in centromeric and know Handwashing Strategy, prepared for them.

The meeting acknowledged the efforts and the quality of work performed by the team in the preparation of this document, the next step requires the approval of the owner of health. Proactively LM Team Costa Rica has worked a proposed logo for the initiative and have committed to present two alternatives, which are then analyzed and validated by the authorities of AyA and MINSA, later to socialize with others LM teams of the countries in the region to adopt a logo propio que identifique la iniciativa.

Además de este aporte, el equipo de trabajo se compromete a promover esfuerzos para involucrar a otras instituciones y actores sociales dentro de la Iniciativa. Entre ellos se identifican los siguientes: Ministerio de Educación, La organización ALIARSE, la Caja del Seguro Social, la OPS y UNICEF.

Una de las primeras acciones con las que se espera arrancar la Iniciativa en ese país, es con la realización de dos estudios. El primero será una linea basal sobre estudio de comportamientos relacionados con las practicas higiénicas, enfocada en lavado de manos y manejo seguro del agua en el hogar en zonas rurales y periurbanas; y el segundo será la realización a study to determine the conditions at the national level about the potential for partnerships with the private sector.

The team also plans to start with the launch of the initiative in the month of October dates that marks the inter-American Water Day, and World Day handwashing (October 15).

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Handwashing done Validation Workshop on Strategy

February 25 was performed in a validation workshop on the National Strategy Handwashing in Nicaragua. The workshop was conducted by the Ministry of Health (MOH) with support from World Bank and SDC.

participated in the workshop about 40 people, including doctors, advocates, journalists and technicians from the Ministry of Health, who were responsible to analyze and validate the strategy, which was prepared by an interdepartmental working group with technical support from a consultant.

The validation workshop was threefold: 1) Provide feedback and adjust the proposed strategy from the reflection and input from participants, 2) Get input for the design of a plan of action in the short, medium and long term; 3) To acquaint participants with the Technical Standards and Guidelines for the use of antiseptics, disinfectants and hand hygiene.

In the first part of the workshop was presented to Care assistants Model Family and Community Health, then Dr. Sergio López Cruz, a consultant for USAID, announced the Technical Standards and Guidelines for the use of antiseptics, disinfectants and hand hygiene, then Zaira Pineda, consultant to the Center Research and Health Studies (CIES) presented the results of the first projects developed on Handwashing in Nicaragua and finally Maritza Obando, representative of the Ministry of Health introduced the Strategy for Handwashing.