Water, hygiene and environmental sanitation
The precarious environmental health conditions in poor rural areas, especially in terms of access to safe water and the appropriate disposal of excreta, negatively affect children’s health and development opportunities. The component contributes to the creation of healthy environments, for children and their families, that protect their health, increase their opportunities for learning and development and offer a dignified social environment while increasing access to safe water, and familiarity with hygienic habits and practices. The programme will strengthen services to reach 20,000 families in 800 rural communities (15 per cent of the population without services in the area of intervention) and provide clean, sanitary conditions in 1,000 schools and boarding schools. The component ensures access to water and sanitation services, and promote hygiene in selected communities, while strengthening the necessary capacities to allow municipal governments and communities to progressively assume responsibility for hiring, building, supervising and monitoring water and sanitation services. Also plays an important part in strengthening and sustaining sectoral responses to emergencies and disasters.
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