[[Image:knvbFootball4Water logo.jpgpng|thumb|right|130px150px|]][[Imagehttp:Football4Water logo//worldcoaches.png|right|130px|nl/nl/special/football-for-water/ Football for Water]]][[Image:football4water.pngjpg|right|250px200px]]__NOTOC__ <small-title />[http://footballforwater.nl/ Football for Water ] is a public-private partnership (PPP) consisting of the following organizations: Royal Netherlands Football Association, Unicef Netherlands, Simavi, Vitens Evides international, Aqua for All, Akvo and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1100 1,100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football- and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches).
Read more about Akvo's involvement in our blog: [http://www.akvo.org/blog/?p=4923 Football becomes a bridge to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene]
During the celebration of UN World Water Day on 22 March 2012 in Wageningen, the new program 'Football for Water' was announced by the Director of KNVB Bert van Oostveen. The KNVB works together with Unicef, Simavi,Vitens Evides International, Aqua for All, Akvo and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The public-private partnership is characterized by 50-50 contribution by private partners and the Dutch government.
The partnership will provide 750.,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique with a healthy environment and at the same time awareness on personal hygiene will be raised. Drinking water- and sanitation facilities will be installed through (local partners of) e.g. Unicef, Simavi and Vitens Evides International. The KNVB, with local partners, will educate WorldCoaches in order to establish behavioral change and will set up school football competitions. Specifically for this program, a new Life Skills Manual was developed for the subjects in the field of WASH by the University of Utrecht. The program will run from april April 2012 until march March 2016.
==Akvo's =The Football for Water Projects===
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/773/ Mapping water & sanitation points in schools] - The Football for Water partnership links the Dutch Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) sector's capacities with football-based life-skills trainings. The programme lasts for 4 years and operates in Kenya, Mozambique and Ghana. Akvo's mobile app FLOW will be used to monitor and map WASH facilities in schools. Goal is to measure the indicators within the F4W programme with mobile/web tools.
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/657/ Football for Water in Mozambique] - The Football for Water is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative led by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs that aims at linking the Dutch Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector’s proven capacities with regard to WASH infrastructure provision.
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/653/ Football for Water in Ghana] - The Football for Water is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative led by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs that aims at linking the Dutch Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector’s proven capacities with regard to WASH infrastructure provision.
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/591/ Football for Water in Kenya] - The Football for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (F4WASH) is a Public Private Partnership that aims to link Dutch WASH sectors proven capabilities with regard to WASH infrastructure provision with Kenyan WASH actors to promote behaviour change amongst school children. SANA’s participation focuses on development of gender sensitive WASH facilities in each of the target schools in the programme.
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/575/ Football for Water in Migori] - Football for Water is a unique cooperation between - on the one hand - the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and - on the other hand - the world of football. This project's ultimate goal is to improve access to WASH infrastructure and to establish behavioral change in WASH behavior for children in primary schools through football in Kenya.
* [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/574/ Football for Water in Kisumu] - Football for Water is a unique cooperation between the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector and the world of football. This project's ultimate goal is to improve access to WASH infrastructure and to establish behavioral change in WASH behavior for children in primary schools through football in Kenya.
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===Football for Water Manuals===
====Basic WASH Manual====
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Issues of health and hygiene are crucial to every human life. Good hygiene prevents you and your players from infections and diseases, such as diarrhoea. Proper hygiene
* Roadmap (realize, analyze, act)
* Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address basic WASH issues
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====Safe Water====
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Safe water is essential to life. Safe water is water fr om from a known clean source or water having received prior efficacious treatment. Unclean water often contains germs that spread diarrhea. Drinking or cooking with contaminated water causes common diseases that become risks to the health of your community, your players and yourself.
For many people obtaining safe drinking water is a struggle. They do not have access to safe drinking water supplies and have to rely on open surface water or on wells that are not properly constructed. In case of a piped water supply, the water may not be safe. As a result they run the risk of getting diseases and infections which are caused by using water that is contaminated.
* Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address safe water issues
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====Hand Washing====
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During our daily activities we pick up invisible intruders on our hands. Therefore, to protect us from infection transmission, it’s necessary to wash our hands. Worldwide around 1.500.000 to 1.700.000 lives could be saved by hand-washing with soap after contact with human excreta.
* Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address hand washing issues
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====Safe Sanitation====
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Safe sanitation refers in general to facilities for safe disposal of human faeces and urine. Unsafe sanitation is a major cause of disease. Therefore using latrines properly and stopping open defecation are of high importance for improving the health of your players and yourself.
* Roadmap (realize, analyze, act)
* Tools: fun activities and games you can play to address sanitation issue
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===Acknowledgements===
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* The material on this page is from [http://www.worldcoaches.nl/en/special/football-water/ Football for Water], brought to you by [http://www.knvb.nl/ KNVB].
