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Guidelines for School Sanitation

In 2014 a study was initiated by the South African Water Research Commission to evaluate school sanitation across three provinces: Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. The purpose was to attempt to compile a fair picture of the status of toilets and gain insights into key issues and needs which need to be understood and addressed in order for school sanitation not to fail. Following a review of guidance and other literature addressing school sanitation from around the world, 130 schools were visited. Principals and cleaners were interviewed and focus groups and surveys were conducted with learners regarding practices, perceptions and attitudes around school sanitation. In addition, visual assessments of school sanitation facilities were conducted by the research teams. The insights yielded from this data set have been combined with best practices identified in the literature review to produce this guideline.