TMG stands for “Toilets Making the Grade®” and is the headline of our school competition.
While you make your school more pleasant and promote health, you can also win attractive prizes and showcase your achievements to the public and the school authorities.
Only schools who are offered to participate in TMG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the NGO Sabawon can be part of TMG.
Sabawon has invited both boys’ and girls’ schools on all levels.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa there will be one award for each school levels: high schools, middle schools and primary schools will each compete to win TMG.
The competition takes place at your school in Peshawar!
Sabawon will guide you on how to do the assessment and where to hand in your proposal.
Yes, your team should represent different groups from your school, led by the WASH Clubs.
The team should include school management, teachers, students, maintainers, parents and non-teaching staff. You can only participate and win with a team.
Your proposal comprises of:
1) A description of the activities to improve hygiene and sanitation at your school, including
a. the results of your self-analysis on challenges and their root causes for hygiene and sanitation
b. a list of collaborations you may need,
c. how to motivate everyone at school to take part, and
e. importantly who does what and when to improve hygiene and sanitation at your school long term.
2) The documentation of your self-analysis process and the implementation of your activities.
This can be one team picture, one picture of an activity implemented, one picture showing the snapshot of your process or a picture with the jury. Each picture should have a file size of maximum 2 MB.
3) A list of your actively involved team members
There will be one TMG award for each school level:
- high schools,
- middle schools and
- primary schools
The best entries are defined as those with a coherent set of activities based on your participatory self-analysis with your complete team.
Criteria to win are:
*Teamwork*
How broad is the support for the concept at the school (participating stakeholder groups)?
*Ideas that are implementable by the school*
*Quality of the problem analysis*
Have the underlying root causes of transmission at the school been investigated?
*Holistic Approach*
Concept contains a coherent set of activities to achieve/improve health-promoting, appreciated, safe sanitation and hygiene services at their specific school.
**To not spoil the fun, we will announce prizes soon. It will be exiting!**
An unbiased team from GIZ, Sabawon and the local government will assess your proposal.
In the second phase, a high-level jury will visit the schools. According to the school’s performance during the visit and its proposal, the jury will determine winning schools.
By registering for the contest and sending the proposal, personal data is collected. These are used by the MoE, Sabawon, GIZ, GTO and their direct partners only for the purpose of conducting the competition.
You find more information in the data policy through the link on the bottom of the page.
If you didn't find the answer to your question here, you can read the Steps for Schools Document in the "Downloads" section.
Find the phone number of Sabawon to answer your questions directly under “Contact”.
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