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ABOUT WORLD TOILET COLLEGE
Established in 2005, the World Toilet College (WTC) started as a social enterprise, with the belief that there is need for an independent world body to ensure the best practices and standards in Toilet Design, Cleanliness, and Sanitation Technologies are adopted and disseminated through training.
Since 2005 WTC has expanded its scope to help fulfill WTO's commitment to reducing the number of people without access to safe sanitation, and improving toilets and sanitation conditions globally, through capacity building and training. As such, WTC currently provides in-house and on-site training in toilet design and maintenance, disaster and emergency sanitation, and sustainable sanitation solutions including development (bottom of the pyramid) sanitation, school sanitation and ecological sanitation.
WTC has a long-standing partnership with Singapore Polytechnic, a reputable training institution in Singapore. On 19 November 2005, WTC signed a Memorandum of Association in which Singapore Polytechnic agreed to provide the premises for classroom training. On-site training will be done in various locations depending on the request of the participants.
WTC also has the support of local and international government ministries and agencies, private enterprises and sanitation experts.
WTC's underlying principle is to bridge the much needed "last mile" to professionalize the existing sanitation and restroom industry whilst facilitating expansion of this industry into the communities currently out of its reach. WTC aims to ensure the need for well designed, clean and sanitary toilets - by everyone - receives mainstream attention.
This is the first and only institution that addresses the needs of both urban and rural toilets in a holistic manner.
WTC offers the following programmes:
To date, WTC has successfully conducted the following courses:
Singapore Trainings:
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Two short courses/seminars on Good Restroom Design and New Code of Practice on Environmental Health (COPEH) guidelines by National Environment Agency (NEA).
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Customized Cleaning Course for Coffee Shop Cleaners for the South West Community Development Council (CDC)
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National Skills Recognition System (NSRS) Courses
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Restroom Specialist Training Course (RSTC)
Overseas Trainings:
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Ecological Sanitation Course in Banda Aceh
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School Sanitation program for Zhao Jiagou Middle School, Shanxi Province in China
NEW!!!!
May 18 - 30, Training Course
Water and Sanitation for Development and Emergencies
A BushProof training course to be hosted in Singapore by World Toilet College
BushProof is an award winning humanitarian enterprise committed to improving the living conditions of the poor through product-development and base of the pyramid market-development, and by helping NGOs increase the impact of their projects through consultancies and trainings. Their Water & Sanitation for Development & Emergencies training course, held regularly in Madagascar and formerly in Hong Kong, is well established and has been extremely well received; please visit their website (www.bushproof.com and follow the link to WatSan Training for Development & Emergencies) for more information.
World Toilet College (WTC) is proud to be hosting and co-facilitating this course here in Singapore in May 2009.
Places are limited and allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, so please apply now. Please note that due to this announcement being somewhat late in the day, we will extend the early bird payment by a month.
For booking procedures, please click here. Alternatively, you can send us an email at wtc@worldtoilet.org, or call us on +65 63528921 or +65 63529178.
Course details:
"The course was great and the breadth of knowledge of the BushProof staff was impressive. I am definitely better equipped to deal with the design, implementation and monitoring of a watsan programme that I was prior to the course. Both rookies and long-term development workers would find something of value here."
Unicef participant, August 2006 |
"The CDs and resource materials are wonderful and will help me with my work long after the course is finished. Your training course is a great contribution to capacity building of watsan professionals". Oxfam participant, September 2007
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Course dates: 18-30 May 2009 Singapore
Note: The course will also be held in Madagascar, 15-27 June 2009
Course Overview
Safe sanitation and clean drinking water are two of the most important issues in emergency or development work, and there are growing career opportunities for experienced water and sanitation experts. Although the basic principles and technologies may be similar, important differences exist between approaches to water and sanitation in emergencies or in development, especially concerning methodology, beneficiary participation, scale and planning. This training therefore covers a wide range of options and approaches applicable for both environments.
The training is invaluable for both those who need more technical input for their work, as well as for those in management who find they have become more and more involved in water programmes, but lack basic technical and theoretical background.
Practical Sessions
While several theoretical courses are available, practical hands-on field experience is difficult to obtain. This intense training, given through both practical and theoretical sessions, therefore focuses heavily on practical sessions. These can include the following (please note practical sessions will vary from time to time, and according to the training location):
- Latrine slab construction (normal and dome)
- Making an emergency latrine shelter
- Construction of various components of hand-dug well
- Manual drilling
- Jetting
- Sieve analysis
- Measuring elevation
- Measuring water flow in pipes due to gravity or pumped
- Handpump operation
- Chlorine and alum jar tests
- Community mapping in a village
- V-notch weir flow measurement
- Bio-sand filter construction
- Water testing (chemical, physical, bacteriological)
Because of the number of practical sessions, participants tend to learn most if they get stuck in and get their hands dirty!
For video clips and photos taken at former tranings, please click here.
Theoretical Sessions
In additon to the practical session, the course will provide a broad overview of the theoretical aspects of water and sanitation projects. Theoretical issues are linked to real life experiences of the facilitators throughout the course.
Teacher-student Ratio
We will never have more than 15 participants per course, and therefore hava a high teacher-student ratio, which we find is essential to allow individual feedback and tuition.
Language
The course will be in English.
Course fees & duration
The duration of the course is 13 days (12 days taught withe the Sunday in the middle off).
Course fees are shown below - the fee includes:
- Tuition, handout, resource CDs, coffee breaks, lunch on training days and field visits
The course fee does not include the following:
- Airfares, travel or medical insurance, visa, accommodation, breakfast / evening meal and transport costs to and from the accommodation to the training centre every day.
An information guide including hotel details will be sent to all participants. This allows participants to choose and organise their own accommodation and includes telephone and email contacts. WTC will help participants if they are having difficulties arranging things, but an additional (nominal) fee may be charged for this.
| Early bird - application received more than 2 months prior to course |
2,400 Euro |
| Standard - application received between 2 weeks and 2 months prior to course |
2,500 Euro |
| Late snail - application received less than 2 weeks prior to course |
2,600 Euro |
To download the course information, please click here.
Note: We require a minimum attendance of 5 people to make course viable, otherwise we may have to reschedule the course. Please confirm with us prior to paying for international flights.
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