Swachh Bharat: Swachh Vidyalaya (Clean India: Clean schools)

  • P Project/Program

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Key Information

Swachh Bharat, Swachh Vidyalaya (SBSV), Clean India, Clean Schools is an initiative launched in 2015 that aimed to provide universal access to sex-segregated toilets in all 1.2 million government schools. Another aim is to improve the WASH curriculum and teaching methods while promoting hygiene practices and community ownership of water and sanitation facilities within schools. As a partner of choice for the Government of India, UNICEF has supported the development of the national framework for benchmarking schools along 39 WASH indicators – through the national school awarding system called Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP), pushed aggressively by the Government in all states. The SVP has continued since 2016 with a brief two-year gap during 2019 and 2020. During the financial year 2021-22 the SVP was revised with the inclusion of 12 questions related to COVID-19 appropriate requirements in schools and few more questions related to functionality, operation and maintenance of WASH facilities, taking the total number of indicators to 52.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

India

Location(s)

South Asia

India

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 -

Ministry Affiliation

Department of School Education & Literacy

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School facilities

Cross-cutting areas

  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • Other cultural practices
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Sanitary product distribution

Water and sanitation

  • Construction/improvement of sex-specific toilets
  • Improved water access

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school completion (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms