Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), Sexual Reproductive, Maternal and New-born Healthcare (SRMN).
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
TJSD ensures that water supplies for communities are available from improved sources for drinking and cooking. In areas where it is not possible to provide communal supplies that meet the Drinking Water Quality Standards, we promote household water treatment. This includes; developing the supply chains so that people can buy the filters in the local markets at affordable prices, testing and approving filters, and training on safe water handling in their homes.
Sanitation
TJSD provides access to affordable sanitation that is safe, hygienic, secure, socially and culturally acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity. Efforts in sanitation address the following: Hygiene behavior change to eliminate open defecation through approaches such as Community-Led Total Sanitation, Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST); Sanitation marketing of a range of toilet designs that are appropriate, resilient to natural disasters, and affordable, particularly for poorer people. This includes upgrading existing toilets/latrines; Building the capacity of the private sector and the enabling conditions (regulations, permits, access to finance) for small entrepreneurs to provide sanitation services in rural areas and slums for city dwellers; and developing financing mechanisms, such as Taasi Fund, to enable poorer households to construct, improve and maintain toilets/latrines.
TJSD also provides for pit and septic emptying due to the increasing demand for septage services.
Hygiene behavior change
TJSD adopted the “Four Cleans” (clean hands, clean food, clean water, clean latrines) to promote safe hygiene behavior in communities through carrying out formative research to understand hygiene behaviors, motivations and attitudinal barriers to those behaviors among identified target communities; Developing guidance in local languages covering approaches, methods, standard messages and tools that, by addressing the reasons for the gap, are effective in achieving behavior change; Providing training for community-level hygiene promotion teams on the new approaches; Undertaking baseline Surveys of hygiene practices; Conducting hygiene behavior change campaigns, using the evidence-informed Communication for Development approaches or other effective approaches, in communities and households; and promoting regular refresher training for communities for hygiene behavior change
WASH in Schools and Health Facilities
TJSD will support schools by providing a healthy physical learning environment through the provision, operation and maintenance of safe water supplies, adequate toilet facilities, handwashing facilities, solid waste disposal facilities for all students and staff, together with the promotion of safe hygiene practices.
Health facilities are supported to design water supply facilities, taking into account the special accessibility needs of a wide range of users such as children, pregnant women, sick patients, older people and patients with disabilities, with adaptation to different geographic and ethnic contexts and different technical options for water supply (own source or connection to community piped supplies); Prepare and maintain an inventory of water facilities, including functionality, in all health facilities; Construct appropriate water supply facilities in all health facilities, taking water either from its source or from community piped supplies; Operate and maintain the water supply facilities, including payment of tariffs to the water supplier; and oversee the performance and management of individual health facility water supplies.
WASH in emergencies and humanitarian action
TJSD ensures that refugees and host populations have sustainable, safe, and sufficient access to quality water and improved sanitation and hygiene services, including at the household level and in institutions such as schools and health facilities in the communities. Uganda is one of the top refugee-hosting countries in the world, with a protracted refugee situation and ongoing influxes of refugees from neighboring countries.
Sexual Reproductive, Maternal and Newborn Health Care
TJSD promote access to quality sexual reproductive, maternal, and newborn health care services; Ensure universal health coverage for comprehensive reproductive, maternal and newborn health care; Address causes of maternal mortality, reproductive and maternal morbidities, and related disabilities; Strengthen health systems to respond to the needs and priorities of women and girls, and foster accountability to improve quality of care and equity.
TJSD undertakes early engagement and close collaboration with key stakeholders, partners, and, mobilizes community participation to ensure ownership, sustainability and viable solutions grounded in indigenous knowledge of local conditions and constraints; Adopt women-centered approach, consideration for gender aspects, mother-to-child strategy.
TJSD builds the capacity of health professionals to deliver essential and specialist healthcare services; Prioritize adequate resources and effective health care financing; Integrate maternal and newborn care, protect and support the mother-baby relationship; Empower women, girls, families and communities through actively making decisions that positively influence the health of their children and families; Establish external quality assessment schemes for essential components of health care delivery; Explore efficient, low-cost referral and advisory systems for patients and specimens, using new appropriate technology; Increase the access to the hygiene interventions (handwashing, water quality treatment, sanitation); Develop operating guidelines and support for program development that enable all organizations programs to contribute to maternal and childbirth; and increase the proportion of adolescents, women and men with access to reproductive health information and services.