Equity in School Water and Sanitation

EQUITY IN SCHOOL WATER AND SANITATIONorder to be able to assess gender parity ordifferences between gender related practices visà-viswater and sanitation in schools.3. Facilities/infrastructure: Schools which werereported to have good water and sanitationfacilities and where some focused work had beendone to integrate water and sanitation and relatededucation would be preferred. This was essentialto explore inclusion/exclusion related to water andsanitation. Since, according to secondary datasources, a majority of the schools in both thedistricts had reported the existence of toilets forall and dedicated drinking water sources withinthe school, information available with UNICEF inUP was relied upon to make a purposive sampleof the villages. 174. Village development classification: Selectedschools would be from a mix of Nirmal Grams 18and Ambedkar Villages 19 (as these are likely tothrow up evidence of good practices) and regularvillages (where sites are likely to provide evidenceof exclusion).5. Villages with different types of schools: In orderto capture the range of schools (primary, upperprimary, and high school, girls only and coeducational),a special effort would be made toidentify such villages as would enable selection ofdifferent kinds of schools. Secondary schools wereincluded in the sample in order to understandexclusion related issues of adolescent girls and boys.One block each was selected in the two districts –Jakhora block in Lalitpur, and Rajgarh block inMirzapur. Six sites (villages) were thereafteridentified in each of these. Village selection wasbased on available data, and this selection wasfurther fine-tuned with the help of UNICEF projectpersonnel who had in-depth knowledge of thearea. This short list was discussed with localgovernment (WATSAN) officials and projectpersonnel from UP State WaterAid. 20 Areconnaissance visit was made to the two blocks,and the villages and schools which would beincluded in the sample were subsequently firmedup (see Table 4 for information about villages).Table 4 Basic information about the village sites of the studyMirzapurVillage MS1 MS2 MS3 MS4 MS5 MS6Households134546431721306111Total population8153,6212,8364,5322,243771Males4241,8591,4982,3611,180394Females3911,7621,3382,1711,063377Population 0-6146743519824479180Male7337825941825897Female7336526040622183SC population/%204/25454/12.5575/20.27307/7589/26.25340/44SC Male103245312182319166SC Female101209263175270174Sex ratio922947842919900957Male literacy72.9384.6778.9377.3569.6363.97Female literacy43.855.6252.2246.6841.6830.61Gender gap29.8529.0526.730.628.6433.31217MS4 is on the border of Rajgarh and Narayanpur blocks.Inputs were taken on the school sanitation programme from government officials/local UNICEF and WaterAid personnel.18A Nirmal Gram is a village which has achieved total sanitation in its command area. It is an ‘open-defecation-free’ village whereall houses, schools, and ICDS centres (Anganwadis) are supposed to have sanitary toilets.19The Ambedkar Village programme is serviced by 13 different development programmes including rural infrastructure development,social securities, better health services and family welfare, hygienic living conditions, employment generation, scholarships andland reforms.20WaterAid has carried out sanitation related interventions in 20 schools of Jakhora block, of which the team finally selected 3 PSand 3 UPS schools.