Course information

• Objectives

  After completion of the course you will be able to:

  • Discuss the concept of gender including gender mainstreaming;
  • Discuss the concepts of onsite sanitation systems;
  • Analyse case studies on gender and onsite sanitation;
  • Develop a case study on gender and onsite sanitation.
• Syllabus

  This course covers the following topics:

  • Foundations in onsite sanitation – introduction to the concept of FSM and its enabling environment;
  • Foundations in gender – introduction to the concepts of gender and gender mainstreaming;
  • Onsite sanitation and gender – case studies that use a gender lens or explore gender issues along the sanitation value chain and its enabling environment.
• Delivery method

  Each course in this series consists of video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, and assignments. In principle, each video presentation has its own complementary presentation slides. Some parts of the course also include exercises and/or assignments. Please note that this course is free, open access, and does not include guidance, exams, assessment, or certificate. As a rule of thumb, if you spend 8 hours per week following this course, you should be able to complete the curriculum within 10 weeks.

  Instructions on how to use the course materials are available here.

• Organization

  Each course has its own coding system. The code of this course is C 5. Each course consists of units. Each unit has a unique code, for example, U 5.1. In the section ‘Unit 5.1 videos │ …” you can find and watch all video-recorded lectures that belong to this unit. Similarly, in the section ‘Unit 5.1 course materials│ …”  you can download all materials that make this unit (e.g. high-resolution videos, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, assignments, etc) as a single compressed file (in zip format). Some files may be of considerable size, so you need to assure that your computer has sufficient bandwidth and capacity for downloading.