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Impact of Separate Toilets for Girls in Schools on Enrollment and Attendance

This study explores the impact of separate toilets for girls in schools on primary and secondary school enrollment, attendance, and completion rates. The research aims to provide evidence-based insights for policymakers and program managers to enhance educational outcomes for girls.

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Impact of Separate Toilets for Girls in Schools on Enrollment and Attendance

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  1. What impact does the provision of separate toilets for girls at school have on their primary and secondary school enrolment, attendance and completion? Birdthistle, I., Dickson, K., Freeman, M. and Javidi, L.. (2011). MARCH Centre at LSHTM and EPPI-Centre, University of London

  2. DFID’s 2008 Water Policy Includes the aim, working with others, to “ensure that every school has a safe water supply and well maintained toilets, separate for boys and girls”.

  3. Why focus on toilets for girls in schools? • Installing toilets in schools has been shown to improve girl’s attendance – often as much as major educational reform. • In the mid 1990s, for example UNICEF found that providing toilets in schools in Bangladesh boosted girls’ attendance by 11 per cent.

  4. Primary aim of the systematic review • To identify and synthesize evidence of the impact of separate toilets for girls on their enrolment and attendance in schools.

  5. Systematic Review • Answer important questions by looking at prior research • Bring together and pool the findings of primary research • Synthesis of the findings of all the studies included in the review in order to answer the review questions

  6. Systematic Review cont ... • It follows a principled method and a research question with a protocol and reflection on strengths • Reduces bias and error • It is replicable and updateable

  7. Why is DFID funding systematic reviews? • Increaseevidence-informed decision making. • Increase the value for money of policy by basing decisions on a rigorous understanding of what works. • Support the creation and dissemination of systematic reviews as public goods.

  8. The primary audience of DFID’s funded systematic reviews? DFID policy makers, DFID advisors, developing country policy makers and development programme managers

  9. A two-stage systematic review model was used Stage one:  identify studies investigating school-based water, sanitation and hygiene interventions.

  10. Stage two: whether we have evidence to answer these questions: Q1a: Is there is an impact of providing single-sex toilets on the enrolment, attendance and/or completion of girls in primary or secondary schools? Q1b) Is there evidence of associations between separate toilets and girls' educational outcomes?

  11. Stage two: Other objectives ii) to provide a conceptual map of mediating factors by which separate toilets may impact educational outcomes (Q2); iii) to build a map of all school WASH studies identified (Q3 )

  12. The report found that "there is evidence neither for nor against the impact of separate toilets for girls on their educational outcomes".

  13. Conclusions The provision of separate-sex toilets may be necessary but not sufficient to impact girls' educational outcomes Further research priorities would benefit from examining whether any school-based WASH interventions have an impact on girls' educational outcomes?

  14. Suggested further work To conduct at least two well-designed, cluster-randomised trials from different contexts, where cultural and environmental factors differ (e.g., religion and access to water, respectively) in order to generate a sound evidence base.

  15. Do we need more evidence for WASH in Schools?

  16. SHARE stands for Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity SHARE aims to generate the knowledge that is needed to improve sector performance and drive progress on sanitation

  17. Follow us on Twitter: @SHAREresearch Visit us online: www.SHAREresearch.org

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