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5 Elements of Wins

The document discusses the Wash in Schools (WINS) program, which aims to ensure student safety through five elements: water, sanitation, hygiene, deworming, and health education. It notes that providing health education is easiest for schools, while ensuring a stable water source is most challenging. It also describes the four-step WINS improvement cycle schools can follow to enhance their program: assessment, analysis, implementation, and recognition.

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5 Elements of Wins

The document discusses the Wash in Schools (WINS) program, which aims to ensure student safety through five elements: water, sanitation, hygiene, deworming, and health education. It notes that providing health education is easiest for schools, while ensuring a stable water source is most challenging. It also describes the four-step WINS improvement cycle schools can follow to enhance their program: assessment, analysis, implementation, and recognition.

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5 Elements of Wins

1. Water - water for drinking, cleaning, washing, and other purposes


2. Sanitation - availability of toilets, practice of proper waste management, food
safety
3. Hygiene - handwashing and toothbrushing, menstrual hygiene management,
facilities and supplies necessary for this activities to continue
4. Deworming - encouraging students to participate in deworming activites in
schools
5. Health Education - strategies to take to increase awareness of the studnets and
the stakeholders about the elements of WINS

Through the elemetns of WINS the stakeholder can ensure that all learners wins.

Elements of WINS: The Easiest and the Most Challenging

Wash-in-Schools or WINS is a program aimed to ensure the safety of all stakeholders


attending the school. WINS has five elements namely water, sanitation, hygiene,
deworming, and health education. Among these elements, the easiest for our school
to fulfill is the element of health education as this element can be instantly
integrated in the school curriculum. Whereas, the hardest to fulfill is the element
of water as the water source of the barangay with which the school is located has
limited and inconsistent supply of water.

In the school level, WinS can be improved through the WinS Improvement Cycle. As
you can see in the image above, the WinS improvement cycle is a 4 step process that
schools can follow to improve their WinS Condition. Here is an overview of what is
involved in each step:

1.) Knowing your star level - The WinS TWG uses the WinS Monitoring Form to conduct
a self-assessment.

2.) Get Results - The monitoring form generates results to report the current star
ratings of a school, its strengths, as well as areas for improvement. The WinS TWG
can study these results to identify possible courses of action.

3.) Level up: Implementation of Actions to Improve on the criteria - Particular


actions that may involve building facilities, purchasing/sourcing supplies,
generating activities or conveying information to stakeholders are implemented to
improve WinS.

4.) Get Recognition and Strive for 3-stars - After implementation, the monitoring
form can be used once more to document improvements made and see the overall
improvement of the school.

1. What do you think were the factors shown in the case study that led to the
school's successful implementation?
From what I understood in the video, the school's successful implementation was not
only due to the motivation shown by the program implementetors to have the program
be implemented but also the support expressed by the stakeholders, like the
parents, to have the program be implemented for benefit of their children.

2. In your Division, can you think of a school that has successfully implemented
WinS? What were the factors that led to the success?
One school with 3-Star Scores in WINS in the Diviion of Davao de Oro is Manat
Central Elementary School. According to the school, one of the factors which
resulted for their success is the school's commitment to achieve the program.

3. If schools in your division were to go through a similar journey, how do you


think can you help?
The schools division may be able to help by providing trainings for the school
personnels on the ways of implementing the WINS program in the school.

Standard Measures for IPC


Hand hygiene
Protect yourself and others, keep your hands clean! Regularly wash hands with soap
for 20 seconds. Handwashing with soap is substantially more effective at cleaning
your hands than handwashing with water alone. If soap and water are not readily
available, use alcohol-based hand rub (at least 70% alcohol). This glitter activity
will show you how soap causes contaminants and pathogens (represented by glitters)
to detach from the skin’s surface, allowing them to be rinsed away.

Cleaning and disinfecting procedures


These posters aim to support school cleaners and/or designated personnel with a
step-by-step guide on how to implement proper cleaning and disinfection procedures
in accordance with the guidelines of the World Health Organization and the
Department of Health.

3. Wearing of mask
Should you wear a medical or a fabric mask? Learn from these videos to know when
and how to use a mask, recommended fabric mask materials and composition, and how
to put on and care for your mask.

More information in the Q&A: Masks and COVID-19 .

4. Physical distancing
Break the chain of transmission. Make sure children and school staff adhere to
physical distancing keeping at least 1 meter apart (or as recommended by national
guidelines). Possible options are: assign children to specific shifts, stagger the
beginning and end of the school days as well as during breaks, create space between
desks or teach outdoors or with open windows, if possible, and paint or tape lines
on the floor to demonstrate physical distance at places where students line up or
gather (e.g. in front of toilets or washing stations). (Source: 10 Immediate WinS
Actions)

Me: Good morning ma'am/sir. Congratulations on your promotion! How was your
implementation of WINS in your school?

Principal: What's WINS ma'am? I believe we have not implemented that one yet.

Me: Do you have handwashing facilities in your school ma'am/sir?

Principal: Yes we do ma'am. Yes, we do.

Me: Good sir. Actually, those handwashing facilities in your school are already
part of the WINS program. WINS or Wash in Schools is basically a program that aims
to ensure the safety in terms of the health of our learners. It has five elements
namely water, sanitation, hygiene, deworming, and health education. Under the
element of water, it involves the availability of water for drinking, cleaning,
washing, and other purposes. In terms of sanitation, it includes the availability
of toilets, practice of proper waste management, and food safety. In terms of
hygiene, it involves doing activities like handwashing and toothbrushing, menstrual
hygiene management, and facilities and supplies necessary for these activities to
continue. In terms of deworming, it involves encouraging students to participate in
deworming activities in schools. Last, in terms of health education, it involves
strategies to take to increase awareness of the students and the stakeholders about
the elements of WINS.

Principal: Ah I see. I believe some of those things you've mentioned are already
done in our school. Perhaps what we can do is establish it as a part of the WINS
program for those to be recognized.

Me: True ma'am/sir. Yes!

Principal: Ma'am, should I have questions to ask can we approach you on it?

Me: Yes ma'am/sir. Of course. Actually, should you also need videos related to WINS
I can send them to you.

Principal: Thank you ma'am.

Me: You're welcome ma'am/sir.

How was your experience in completing the monitoring form?


It allowed me to reflect on the status of our school's WINS program.

How did completing or updating the form help you understand your Division WinS
status?
It allowed me to see the things we need to improve on in our school with regards to
the WINS program.

1. What is your SDOs overall rating and star-level based on your WinS Management
Monitoring form?

- Our SDO's overall rating is 2 stars.

2. Which of the organizational enablers is your Division's strongest point? What do


you think helped you attain this?

- The consistent monitoring of the implementation of the program helped attain this
star rating.

3. Which of the organizational enablers does your Division need to improve on the
most?

- Funds

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