Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH)

Access to safe water and sanitation is a human right. But right now, hundreds of millions of people around the world do not have access to safe water and billions cannot access the sanitation services they need. RINSO is at the forefront of responding to Marsabit’s water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) needs.

Improving WASH access and awareness is an integral part of our overall work in health care and building healthier and more resilient communities.

These approaches are used to address these problems and engage target groups including individuals, households, communities, institutions, and organizations.

Water Management:

• Install solar-powered boreholes equipped with hand pumps in Golbo to provide reliable access to clean water throughout the year.
  • Implement rainwater harvesting systems and construct water storage facilities at community centers and schools.
  • Distribution of Plastic water tanks and guttering works for Butiye and Heilu residents.
  • Masonry tanks and guttering works for Qoloba/Qalaliwe primary schools.
  • Constructions of water pans, desilting, or embankment.
  • Conduct hygiene promotion campaigns emphasizing the importance of safe water storage, handwashing, and sanitation practices.

• Capacity building of the opinion leaders of the communities residing within our catchment area.

• Creation and strengthening of WRUA(Water Resource Users Association that majors on
  • the proper use of water, and ensuring hygiene practices are in place.
  • Water governance
  • Conflict resolution at the water crisis level.
  • Ensures sustainability of the water projects.

• SCAMP(Sub catchment management plan). This ensures that the community works towards making it sustainable.

• Training of all the stakeholders to ensure the WASH Program is a success

Sanitation and Hygiene:

Hygiene-Hygiene refers to conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases(WHO)

Sanitation -is a process of keeping places clean and healthy, especially by providing a sewage system and a clean water supply.

• Construct pit latrines with handwashing facilities at Goethe/ Kinisa/ Qoloba / Walmur in collaboration with community members.
  • Constructions of washrooms at all water points eg Funanyata dam
  • Distribute hygiene kits containing soap, sanitary pads, and menstrual hygiene products to women and girls in nomadic communities.
  • Train community health volunteers to conduct hygiene education sessions and monitor sanitation practices at the below levels:

1. Community level- focus on 5 Fs-
   1. Fingers.
   1. Feces.
   1. Flies.
   1. Foods.
   1. Fluids.
2. At schools, formation of Hygiene clubs and provisions of IEC materials. Strengthen their capacity through regular visits and training.
3. The Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach facilitates communities to conduct their appraisal and analysis of open defecation, mobilizing people to identify and find solutions to their sanitation and hygiene needs. It’s a sanitation promotion that’s based on stimulating a collective sense of disgust and shame among community members as they confront the crude facts about mass open defecation and its negative impacts on the entire community. It begins with a walk of shame and ultimately ends in achieving an open defecation-free Area.
4. Mass hygiene campaigns e.g. International Hand Washing Day.