Transforming Education for Adults & Children in the Hinterlands II (TEACH II)

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is generally a challenge in Ethiopia with coverage levels amongst the lowest in the world. USAID helped support the Alternative Basic Education (ABE) program to reach children with education through its project “Transforming Education for Adults and Children in the Hinterlands” (TEACH). These programs were situated in the most disadvantaged, remote and peripheral woredas/districts, where the WASH situation was even more challenging. ABE Centers were faced with two pronged WASH-related challenges. First, they brought together many children and adults in a circumscribed space, most often without WASH facilities, putting them in heightened health risk, and secondly, the lack of WASH facilities in the ABECs affects educational enrolment and retention.

Activity Description

Activity Description

Activity provided capacity building related to water, sanitation and health for alternative basic education centers.

Expected Outcomes

Expected Outcomes
  • Improve access to safe water in Alternative Basic Education Centers (ABECs)
  • Improve access to sanitation facilities in ABECs
  • Enable children and adults accessing ABECs to adopt healthier hygiene and sanitation behavior
     

Actual Outcomes

Actual Outcomes
  • 39.8% of students have access to safe drinking water as compared to only 4.4% during the baseline. Similarly, the community’s access to drinking water has improved from 48% to 62.2% since communities surrounding the schools partly access the services from the school water points established through this project
  • Only 68% of the ABEC leaners were using latrines prior to the project implementation and has improved to 92% during the end line survey.
  • Almost all visited ABEC/schools have segregated latrines for boys and girls with hand washing facilities including detergents (soap/ash).
  • Hand washing among children has improved significantly from the baseline (26% to 74.8%).
Activity
Complete
2009 - 2015
Award Number
AID-663-A-00-09-00435-00
Funding Level
$1,100,000.00
Prime Implementing Partner
Population Focus
Rural
Activity Topics
Countries