Post Graduate Diploma in Water Sanitation and Hygiene

Program Overview

This professional distance learning course, featuring substantial contact time, is designed to equip middle and senior management professionals with a comprehensive understanding of water and wastewater engineering, participatory development, public health, and management planning in the context of Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH).

Learning Outcomes

  • The Post Graduate Diploma in WASH will provide professionals with a deep understanding of the complexities involved in humanitarian settings. Participants will gain competencies needed to address operational and coordination requirements for managing effective responses throughout the disaster cycle, including preparedness, response, and recovery. Graduates will be capable of:

    • Integrating Competences:Positioning their skills within the humanitarian system to effectively implement emergency WASH responses and projects in various humanitarian contexts.
    • Evaluating Risks:Assessing public and environmental health risks to propose effective emergency WASH responses for communities, health organizations, and service providers.
    • Designing Systems:Developing and evaluating both technical and social aspects of water and sanitation systems tailored for urban humanitarian environments.
    • Enhancing Resilience:Applying a systems-based approach to improve local WASH resilience through preparedness, risk management, climate adaptation, and social inclusion.

Module 1: Introduction to WASH

  • Definitions and fundamental concepts of WASH
  • Priorities for WASH in emergency and development settings
  • Assessing the effectiveness of WASH interventions

Module 2: Water and Development

  • Water’s role in sustainable development
  • Water and public health connections
  • Characteristics of water sources

Module 3: Water Pollution and Treatment

  • Issues related to water pollution
  • Technologies for large-scale water treatment
  • Operation and maintenance of water treatment and supply systems

Module 4: Water Distribution and Safety

  • Challenges with distribution, leakage, and illegal connections
  • Developing and implementing water safety plans
  • Responsibilities of water utilities

Module 5: Household Water Management

  • Techniques for household water collection, treatment, storage, and handling
  • Monitoring and ensuring water quality
  • Responding to water emergencies and emergency supply
  • Introduction to hygiene and environmental health principles

Module 6: Environmental Health

  • Identifying environmental health hazards
  • Personal hygiene practices
  • Principles of healthful housing

Module 7: Institutional Hygiene and Urban Sanitation

  • Hygiene and sanitation in institutions
  • Understanding urban community characteristics
  • Environmental pollution and its health impacts

Module 8: WASH Service Provision

  • Overview of existing WASH services
  • Identifying stakeholders in urban WASH
  • Social accountability and responsibility in WASH

Module 9: Community Engagement and Sanitation

  • Strategies for community engagement
  • Introduction to sanitation and waste management
  • Consequences of inadequate sanitation and waste management

Module 10: Urban Sanitation and Waste Management

  • Rapid assessment methods for urban sanitation and waste management
  • Procedures for solid waste storage, collection, transfer, and transport
  • Techniques for solid waste disposal

Module 11: Research Paper

  • Conducting and presenting a research paper on a relevant WASH topic

Module 12: Final Examination

  • Comprehensive examination to assess knowledge and competencies acquired throughout the program

This diploma provides a robust foundation for professionals aiming to excel in the WASH sector, equipping them with the skills necessary to manage and improve water, sanitation, and hygiene systems in diverse and challenging environments.

For more information on the programme,  

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