Global Initiative of Ensuring Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Adequate Condition in Schools and Georgia

Author: marina chichua
Keywords: environment, water, sanitation, hygiene
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Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and infrastructure conditions is an important component of General Education Policy in Georgia. The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia and partner Donor organizations acknowledge that for the effective intervention in this regard it is necessary to make a system assessment of the existing situation, promote the distinct and detailed standards of Sanitary-Hygiene and water conditions at the educational institutions and create the proper monitoring system. The results of the survey indicates that generally Georgia Public Schools lack Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) related international standards according to all main paragraphs. The conditions are relatively better in the schools of the capital city and some of the urban settlements rather than in the rural settlements. In terms of the monitoring of Sanitary-Hygiene conditions particular attention is needed to the Regions settled with the ethnic minorities: Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli, where the conditions are worth according to all indicators. Another reason for what the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene conditions is the most important strategic goal for the society is the significant influence of the school environment on the formation of the pupils’ general social behavior and rules of conduct. Accordingly, improvement of sanitation and hygiene conditions in schools improves also general practices of sanitation and hygiene in the society. Georgia like many other countries of the world is in the process of elaboration of the own National standards of water, sanitation and hygiene for schools based on the above-mentioned recommendations.