Thank you for your request.

The Centre of Excellence in Water and Sanitation offers short courses once per year. We do have a minimum of 8 participants to run a customized course whereby you could set the dates at your convenience.

Low-cost sanitation (3 full days)
The focus of this course will be low-cost sanitation in support of ending open defecation in rural areas of Malawi using locally available materials. A practical exercise will be included to build a corbelled latrine, suitable for rural households and being used throughout Malawi to build an improved pit latrine themself. There is an emphasis in this course on both equity and equality for sanitation access to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The course will also cover basic principles of effective sanitation marketing programs. Participants should dress for field work. Fee per participant is MK150,000 (approximately USD$200).

Hello Doc Rochelle. I would like to find out whether this particular course is being run once a year only? If not when is the next training cycle?

The Mzuzu University Centre of Excellence in Water and Sanitation (Malawi) invites you to the following upcoming short course:

Low-cost sanitation
13 to 15 August 2019 (3 full days)
The focus of this course will be low-cost sanitation in support of ending open defecation in rural areas of Malawi. A practical exercise will be included to build a corbelled latrine, suitable for households and being used throughout Malawi. There is an emphasis in this course on both equity and equality for sanitation access to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The course will also cover basic principles of effective sanitation marketing programs. This hands-on course has a maximum of 25 participants. Participants should dress for field work. Fee per participant is MK150,000.

Notes:
• The venue for all short courses will be Mzuzu University, Mzuzu, Malawi.
• Registration fees cover course fees, handouts, materials for practical exercises, morning and afternoon break, and lunch.
• Participants are responsible for transportation and making accommodation arrangements.
• Successful participants will receive a certificate of attendance/recognition.
• Participants should come prepared for both theory and practical/field exercises.
• For registration please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .