Under Hygiene and Behaviour Change Coalition project, ENPHO with the support of Oxfam conducted Gender and Care Work training for Mum’s Magic Hand (MMH) Champions on 17 to 18 December, 2020 at Indreni Food Banquet, Imadol, Lalitpur. The purpose of this training was to familiarize participants with the gender socialization, gender roles and care work.
Training was led by Ms. Srijana Karki, Senior WASH Officer and Gender Focal Person, and co-led by Ms. Srijana Shakya, Senior WASH Officer and Ms. Ritu Sharma, Assistant PHP Officer, ENPHO.
After the training, Mr. Ajay Bhandari, an active participant highlighted, “this training made me analyze the gender role of men and women at household and community level. I also realized how women are involved in many unpaid care work. Thus, from now onwards, I will always try to reduce the work burden for women at my home and in the community too”.
Likewise, Ms. Milu Shrestha, next participant expressed, “although I am graduate student, I wasn’t aware about gender neutral words which I learned and found very interesting and pragmatic.”
Altogether 10 individuals including 7 female and 3 male MMH champions participated in the training.
ENPHO with the support of Oxfam has been promoting hand hygiene behavior integrating gender and care work at Mahalaxmi Municipality to reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 disease. This kind of training can create awareness and support to minimize the work burden of women at household level and also in the community during the pandemic situation.
ENPHO Training Centre in order to impart proper WASH and COVID knowledge to the general public and WASH practitioners has developed various orientation packages and has been delivering them using the online platform.
These online orientations were delivered to the general public, health care workers and WASH Professionals of Dhading, Dolakha, Kathmandu, Kavre, and Sindhupalchok districts in the month of April, May and June 2020.
| SN |
Title of Online Orientation |
No of Events |
Targeted Participants |
No of Participants |
| 1 |
COVID-19 and WASH in Healthcare Settings |
3 |
Staffs working in the Health Care Centre |
60 |
| 2 |
On-demand Orientation on Quarantine and Isolation |
4 |
WASH Professionals working at Quarantine Centre |
71 |
| 3 |
Online Orientation on COVID 19 and WASH |
11 |
WASH Triggerers |
156 |
| 4 |
Online Orientation on Chlorine Disinfection |
1 |
Frontline workers including Field officers and Project Coordinators |
22 |
| 5 |
Online Orientation on Stress Management |
3 |
WASH professionals |
53 |
| 6 |
Online Orientation on COVID Response WASH Activity |
3 |
Triggerers and WASH Coordinators |
31 |
| 7 |
Online Orientation on COVID-19 and WASH for Faecal Sludge Desludgers |
1 |
Faecal Sludge Desludgers |
15 |
| 8 |
Online Orientation on COVID-19 for WASH professionals (Phase-1) |
5 |
WASH Professionals |
101 |
| 9 |
Online Orientation on COVID-19 for WASH professionals (Phase-2) |
5 |
WASH Professionals |
47 |
| 10 |
Online Orientation on Resuming Office after lockdown |
1 |
Staffs of Organization working for the prevention of COVID-19 |
13 |
| 11 |
Online Orientation on WASH and COVID-19 for private tanker operators |
1 |
Faecal Sludge Tanker Operators |
13 |
| 12 |
Online Orientation on Solid Waste Management for waste management workers |
1 |
Sanitation Workers |
17 |
|
Total |
39 |
|
599 |
Till date, altogether 39 online orientation events benefiting 599 participants have been organized by ENPHO.