Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene implementing SLSSH Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH) is a student hygiene and school sanitation project designed whereby students take the lead in the process of implementation. It is the students that initiate and lead change processes by establishing their own committees and setting their own bylaws to improve their school compound sanitation and students’ hygiene. According to the DHS report (2011), 38.5% (45% rural and 16% urban) of the population in Ethiopia still defecates open where as 46% is using pit latrines without slabs. In Ethiopia, the country’s GTP targets, as outlined in the UAP and HSDP IV, are to achieve 100% access to basic sanitation, and 82% access to “improved sanitation,” by 2015. Further, HSDP IV calls for increasing the proportion of Open Defecation Free (ODF) Kebeles from 15 to 80%. The National Hygiene and Sanitation Strategic Action Plan for Ethiopia states that the promotion of improved sanitation facilities and safe hygiene practices is essential in schools and ideally should go hand-in-hand with community activities. Use of schools, parent-teacher associations and children themselves are powerful tools in promoting behavioural change and greater awareness of hygiene issues. 
Most schools in Ethiopia are victims of this open defecation and poor sanitation and hygiene culture in the country. Result 1.Targeted schools accessed with basic WASH facilities through rain water harvest
Activity 1.1. Renovation of roof rain water harvesting points in target schools to access clean water for SSH as well as school gardening
Activity 1.2. Facilitate construction and renovation of community managed pit latrines for schools with separate latrine for girls
Activity 1.3. Develop and purchase dry waste disposal point per the target schools
Activity 1.4. Provide basic sanitary materials which are not produced within schools
Activity 1.5. Provide basic agricultural hand tools
Result 2. Familiarized Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene in targeted primary
Activity 2.1. Conduct community Sanitization on SLSSH concept for community representatives (elders, PTSA)
Activity 2.2.  Provide SLSSH concept orientation to the school community and school management (teachers, students, supervisors, schools admin.)
Activity 2.3. Conduct SLSSH implementation training to focal teachers and school principals
Activity 2.4. Establish SLSSH club in primary schools
Activity 2.5. Train 20 SLSSH Ambassador Students 
Activity 2.6. Triggering the target schools’ community using the trained SLSSH Ambassadors:
Activity 2.7. Facilitate school Hygiene and Sanitation competition among the target schools and motivate the best ones with award
Result 3. Mainstreaming SLSSH in school co-curricular activities
Activity -3.1. Support schools with sport facilities to enhance sport for SLSSH and school development activities (purchase and provide balls and sports uniforms with a slogan and logo printed on it)
Activity 3.2. Support sport computations and festivals among schools to transmit SLSSH messages on the events
Activity -3.3. Support talent show activities with basic materials and equipment to transmit SLSSH message (purchase and provide cultural musical instruments, cultural clothes, provide stationeries)
Activity 3.4. Arrange talent show events and conduct competitions both in and among schools by the clubs to transmit SLSSH message
Result 4. Advocated for Student Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH)
Activity 4.1. Organize sensitization workshop for higher officials, experts, or supervisors on the student-led school sanitation
Activity 4.2. Organize experience sharing visits for influential community and institutional leaders to the SLSSH targeted schools The project Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH) is adopted to school setting from Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) to contribute to the effort of Ethiopian Ministry of Health to improve the sanitation and hygiene service and reach 82% of the population in sanitation and hygiene and Open defecation Free (OPF) society by 2015 and assured child friendly school environment through hygiene and sanitation intervention to contribute to the improvement of quality education In implementing the Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene project different stake holders like PTSA, DEO, community leaders, WWCYA and others were actively involved. These partners can mobilize the surrounding communities, parents, investors and concerned government offices for fund raising. The establishments of multi-stakeholder structures at the district level of the project implementation areas strengthen the link between implementing partners, project target communities, government and non-government organizations, and relevant stakeholders. DEC and the partners have actively engaged in the coordination of the WASH project activities at the targeted levels in the project intervention areas. This project (the student-led school sanitation and hygiene) addresses different activities which are pro environment. For instance, for the purpose of making the school environment attractive, sensitized and colourful green clubs were established. These clubs grow seedlings in the school compounds to plant and as the time distributes to surrounding community so that they could plant the seedlings to protect environment. These all will be done by the rain water collected in the collection reservoirs. In addition, as it is the rain water that will be collected from roof during rainy season it does not hurt the environment; rather it protects soil erosion. Therefore, it could be said it contribute to land productivity. This project (the student-led school sanitation and hygiene) addresses different activities which are pro environment. For instance, for the purpose of making the school environment attractive, sensitized and colourful green clubs were established. These clubs grow seedlings in the school compounds to plant and as the time distributes to surrounding community so that they could plant the seedlings to protect environment. These all will be done by the rain water collected in the collection reservoirs. In addition, as it is the rain water that will be collected from roof during rainy season it does not hurt the environment; rather it protects soil erosion. Therefore, it could be said it contribute to land productivity. Since the project Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene started to be implemented in the targeted schools different stakeholders (students, teachers, PTSAs, DEO, DHO, WWCYA and others) have learnt a lot about sanitation and hygiene through different awareness campaigns, introduction and rain water harvesting chambers and trainings organized by the WASH project. The community in the project area it has been common to see people use rain for sanitation and hygiene by collecting from surface, roof and ponds. Hence, the Rain Water Harvesting technology is an equitable and sustainable paradigm which has the potential of improving livelihood, health, sanitation and hygiene, especially among the most disadvantaged groups and school community. The project will be implemented in 2 rural primary schools of Liben-Chukala located in East Shoa Zone of Oromia National Regional State. Here the school community (teachers, students and supporting staffs) will directly benefited from the intervention of this project. 

As of the current data from the schools, +/- 2400 students and 90 teachers and supporting staffs will be addressed. Apparently, a total of +/- 15 000 community members will be indirectly benefited from the SLSSH project to be implemented in 3 primary schools. Financial sustainability : In implementing the Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene project different stake holders like PTSA, DEO, community leaders, WWCYA and others were actively involved. These partners can mobilize the surrounding communities, parents, investors and concerned government offices for fund raising.
Institutional sustainability : The establishments of multi-stakeholder structures at the district level of the project implementation areas strengthen the link between implementing partners, project target communities, government and non-government organizations, and relevant stakeholders. DEC and the partners have actively engaged in the coordination of the WASH project activities at the targeted levels in the project intervention areas.
Environmental sustainability : This project (the student-led school sanitation and hygiene) addresses different activities which are pro environment. For instance, for the purpose of making the school environment attractive, sensitized and colourful green clubs were established. These clubs grow seedlings in the school compounds to plant and as the time distributes to surrounding community so that they could plant the seedlings to protect environment. These all will be done by the rain water collected in the collection reservoirs. In addition, as it is the rain water that will be collected from roof during rainy season it does not hurt the environment; rather it protects soil erosion. Therefore, it could be said it contribute to land productivity.
Technical sustainability : This project (the student-led school sanitation and hygiene) addresses different activities which are pro environment. For instance, for the purpose of making the school environment attractive, sensitized and colourful green clubs were established. These clubs grow seedlings in the school compounds to plant and as the time distributes to surrounding community so that they could plant the seedlings to protect environment. These all will be done by the rain water collected in the collection reservoirs. In addition, as it is the rain water that will be collected from roof during rainy season it does not hurt the environment; rather it protects soil erosion. Therefore, it could be said it contribute to land productivity.
Social sustainability : Since the project Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene started to be implemented in the targeted schools different stakeholders (students, teachers, PTSAs, DEO, DHO, WWCYA and others) have learnt a lot about sanitation and hygiene through different awareness campaigns, introduction and rain water harvesting chambers and trainings organized by the WASH project. The community in the project area it has been common to see people use rain for sanitation and hygiene by collecting from surface, roof and ponds. Hence, the Rain Water Harvesting technology is an equitable and sustainable paradigm which has the potential of improving livelihood, health, sanitation and hygiene, especially among the most disadvantaged groups and school community. to facilitate access to basic WASH facilities for 3 primary schools by harvesting roof rain water to engage +/-2400 students and 90 teachers in 3 primary schools in student hygiene and sanitation to mainstream SLSSH in 3 school co-curricular activities (school ‘green club’, ‘sport for developmen to convince 24 education sector government bodies on the importance of the SLSSH project INF Student-Led School Sanitation and Hygiene (SLSSH) is a student hygiene and school sanitation project designed whereby students take the lead in the process of implementation. It is the students that initiate and lead change processes by establishing their own committees and setting their own bylaws to improve their school compound sanitation and students’ hygiene. The major objective of the project is to assure child friendly school environment through personal hygiene and compound sanitation. IMP I,E,S WASH