Policies & Papers
School Sanitation and Hygiene Education Program (SSHE)
School Sanitation and Hygiene Education, widely known as SSHE, is a comprehensive programme to ensure child friendly water supply, toilet and hand washing facilities in the schools and promote behavioral change by hygiene education. SSHE not only ensures child’s right to have healthy and clean environment but also leads to an effective learning and enrolment of girls in particular, and reduce diseases and worm infestation. SSHE was introduced in the Central Rural Sanitation Programme in 1999 both in TSC as well as in allocation based component.
Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
At present, 2-3 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, 884 million lack access to an improved water source, 2.6 billion do not have access to improved sanitation, and 1.1 billion still practice open defecation.2 The human rights to water and sanitation are inextricably linked, in functional and normative terms. These rights are fundamental to human dignity and essential for the realisation of many other internationally recognised human rights. They are also the foundations for public health and human development.
