Plan India Support My School

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Plan India Support My School

• Several studies in India have revealed that lack
  of basic amenities like toilets, access to water
  and basic infrastructure creates an unwelcoming
  and non-conducive environment in government
  schools. This leads to a high rate of absenteeism
  which results in children dropping out of school.
  In this situation, girls are often the most
  affected.
• Plan India is a strategic partner of Coca-Cola
  NDTV Support My School campaign, which was
  launched to work on revitalisation of schools.
  The campaign that began with Coca-Cola, NDTV and
  UN-Habitat, has now grown to include many
  partners. The approach adopted was to work on
  sanitation plus a model involving NGOs, community
  members and the private sector. So in addition to
  new or revitalised structures, access to water
  was made an important component. In all, five
  components, depending on the school, were
  revitalised
• Access to sanitation
• Access to water
• Playing facilities
• Environmental upkeep and rainwater harvesting
  (based on need)
• Partner led intervention

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• Support My School is one of the biggest campaign
  of its kind in India. Through active engagement
  and leveraging various channels and through
  clutter breaking live television telethons, the
  campaign has reached out to millions across
  India, making them aware of these issues and how
  they can be solved together. The campaign is
  being implemented in 8 states, i.e. Uttar
  Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan,
  Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Bihar and Odisha.
• Tackling gender inequality and exclusion
• While the Government of India education policies
  work well to have children enrolled in schools,
  the issue needing most attention is retention of
  young adults in schools. One of the widely
  recognised reasons for children dropping out of
  schools is the lack of basic, age-appropriate,
  gender-and disability-friendly sanitation
  facilities, clean drinking water and a healthy
  school environment. Since hardware is prone to
  wear and tear, its maintenance was budgeted to
  make sure that children neither cleaned nor paid
  for cleaning. Even though children are trained on
  clean usage of toilets, the general upkeep is
  assigned to a cleaning vendor. The budgetary
  provision included cleaning materials to ensure
  dignity of labour.

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• Strengthening Plans accountability
• Children, teachers and SMC members were involved
  during the assessment and planning phase for each
  of the schools. Before initiating the project
  activities, the list of items and processes were
  shared with the teachers and SMCs for the
  monitoring process. Orientation on child
  protection guidelines during the
  construction/renovation phase were shared with
  the key stakeholders. The contracts signed with
  the construction vendors ensured that no pregnant
  women and children below 18 years of age were
  employed in physical labour.
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