Module 2: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and WASH
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Foundational Sessions
These sessions provide an introduction to IPC and WASH concepts; their application to COVID-19 contexts including points of entry, schools, and humanitarian emergency settings; and the use of behavior centered design. (5 sessions)
Session 1: IPC & WASH in Densely-Populated Areas
In this first session in the IPC & WASH module, Senior Humanitarian WASH Advisor Abraham Varampath introduces key interventions and helpful tips for communities and agencies implementing IPC and WASH activities at the community level to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. This session focuses specifically on activities in densely populated settings, such as camps, informal settlements of internally-displaced persons, slums, and crowded places in the community.
Session 2: IPC and WASH Interventions to Reduce Transmission and Risk of COVID-19 at Points of Entry
The International Organization on Migration (IOM) is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration, and in this session, takes the learner through critical WASH and IPC interventions required to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission at points of entry across borders. IOM, in partnership with READY, has developed this session specifically for the COVID-19 Micro-Training series.
Sesión 3: WASH y control de COVID-19 en las escuelas
The WASH in Schools network organised a virtual International Learning Exchange on 25th June 2020. The below video, extracted from this webinar, presents concrete steps that schools, agencies and government departments associated with safe reopening of schools during COVID-19 can take to address IPC and WASH in schools.
Session 4: Improving Hygiene Programs in Emergencies: “Wash’Em”
This session is extracted from a webinar organized by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Save the Children’s Global WASH team, on the importance of integrating behavior change into WASH activities. This video introduces the Wash’Em approach – a process for designing hygiene behaviour change programmes in humanitarian crises, including COVID-19.
Sesión 5: COVID-19: Aplicación del diseño centrado en el comportamiento
Esta sesión es un extracto de un seminario web organizado por la London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine y el equipo WASH global de Save the Children sobre la importancia de integrar el cambio de comportamiento en las actividades WASH. Este video presenta el diseño centrado en el comportamiento, una teoría SBC que destaca los componentes del cambio de comportamiento durante la COVID-19.
Expert Interviews
These videos highlight real-life programmatic application of IPC and WASH concepts. Technical experts and program delivery staff give concrete, experience-based examples of IPC and WASH implementation. (6 interviews)
Interview 1: Consejos para implementar intervenciones WASH en entornos densamente poblados
Akiki Aniekan is a WASH Coordinator with Save the Children, based in Ogoja, Nigeria. In this interview, Akiki shares the WASH and IPC activities being implemented in Nigerian refugee camps to limit transmission of COVID-19, with particular focus on additional water provision, hand washing installations, improved solid waste management, and remote monitoring of activities through SMART systems.
Entrevista 2: Adaptaciones a la COVID-19 para PCI y WASH en Somalia
Abdiaziz Mohamed Hassan, WASH Manager in Somalia, shares the WASH and IPC activities he and his team are implementing in IDP camps to limit the transmission of COVID-19. This video focuses on additional water provision by water trucking, hygiene kits distribution, and remote monitoring of activities made possible by engaging community hygiene volunteers.
Entrevista 3: Implementación de una campaña de promoción de la higiene COVID-19
Save the Children Syria has proactively implemented an intensive COVID-19 prevention programme in camps through hygiene promotion activities called the Hi-5 campaign. In this video, WASH specialist Rawia Youssef presents contextual background and the IPC and WASH initiatives taken to reduce COVID-19 in Syria (and greatly improved child participation in the process).
Interview 4: Preventing Spread of COVID-19 in Camps (IOM)
This video, developed by IOM Somalia, describes how hygiene promotion for COVID-19 prevention is implemented in the congested IDP camps through community engagement and implementation of safe procedures to enhance social distance. This video also highlights community voices sharing their perceptions of COVID-19 and community-level mitigation measures. This example was provided to READY courtesy of IOM.
Entrevista 5: Estrategias WASH y IPC para un regreso seguro a la escuela
En este video, Nicole Siegmund, asesora regional de la GIZ, describe cómo la GIZ ha fortalecido la capacidad de las comunidades de la región del Sudeste Asiático para preparar a las escuelas, a los docentes y a ellas mismas para la reapertura segura de las escuelas durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Nicole describe procedimientos específicos de prevención y control de infecciones y agua, y medidas de participación comunitaria interrelacionadas para la reapertura segura de las escuelas.
Entrevista 6: Preparación de las escuelas para la reapertura con intervenciones WASH durante la COVID-19
Prisca Kalenzi, Project Coordinator for Save the Children Uganda, shares the activities they are implementing with the community to be prepared for a safe return to school. Activities focus on hand hygiene with local, community production of soap, constructing hand-washing facilities, and training health care workers within schools.
Tools and Additional Learning Resources for Module 2: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
- Grupo Mundial WASH: Orientación técnica COVID-19
- OMS: Agua, saneamiento, higiene y gestión de residuos para el SARS-CoV-2, el virus que causa el COVID-19
- OMS: Limpieza y desinfección de superficies ambientales en el contexto de COVID-19
- Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente: Hojas informativas sobre gestión de residuos de COVID-19
- OMS: Consideraciones para la cuarentena de personas en el contexto de contención de la enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19)
- OMS: Atención domiciliaria a casos sospechosos y leves de COVID-19
- OMS: Gestión de viajeros enfermos en Puntos de Entrada (aeropuertos internacionales, puertos marítimos y cruces terrestres) en el contexto de COVID-19
- OMS: Consejos sobre el uso de mascarillas en el contexto de la COVID-19: orientaciones provisionales, 5 de junio de 2020
- Grupo Mundial WASH: COVID-19 y WASH: Mitigación de los impactos socioeconómicos en el sector de agua, saneamiento e higiene (WASH)
- Alianza de saneamiento sostenible (susana): Mapa de conocimiento: WASH en las escuelas y el coronavirus
- Clúster de educación global: Safe Back to School: A practitioner’s guide
- Plataforma de centro de higiene COVID-19
