UNICEF (WASH)

Description What is done in the programme or project and why, what results are pursued, who benefits from the activities and who are involved in the implementation.

UNICEF’s WASH project (2015-16: 1 500 000 Euros) addresses water and sanitation issues and promotes good hygienic practices at schools in Northern Afghanistan Provinces (Balk, Samangan, Sari Pul,Jawzjan and Badakshan). The project improves the level of hygiene at schools as well as children's, especially girls school attendance. Project improves water and sanitation issues at 100 schools. Beneficiaries include 60,000 pupils, almost half of them girls and 1300 teachers, more than half of them women. During 2015 project has been active at 72 schools, 18 of them have been completed. The main character of the project is to support girls school attendance by providing them with adequate sanitation facilities.