Emory University and its consortium partners conducted a three-year study in rural and peri-urban Amhara, Ethiopia. The Andilaye Trial consisted of three phases: (1) formative research and intervention...
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has supported the Global Scaling up Handwashing Project in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project has tested whether innovative promotional approaches...
The Vietnam Handwashing Initiative (HWI) was launched in January 2006 by the Ministry of Health (MoH) with funds from the Danish Embassy in Vietnam and technical assistance from the Water and Sanitation...
In Tanzania, nearly 30,000 people die annually due to diarrheal diseases and an estimated 12.6 percent of children suffer from diarrheal diseases. There is a widespread and deep-rooted belief that diarrhea...
Sanitation marketing is an emerging field with a relatively small group of practitioners who are learning by doing. With an introductory guide to sanitation marketing, the Water and Sanitation Program...
Sanitation marketing is an emerging field with a relatively small group of practitioners who are learning by doing. With an introductory guide to sanitation marketing, the Water and Sanitation Program...
This field note describes two Southeast Asian programs that are making handwashing a feature of everyday lives on a national scale: the Handwashing Initiative (HWI) in Vietnam, which has reached nearly...
The FOAM (Focus on Opportunity, Ability, and Motivation) is a framework designed to help in the development, monitoring, and evaluation of handwashing behavior change programs. FOAM was developed for use...
Expenditures on HIV and AIDS in Swaziland have grown rapidly, and for 2006-7 was reported to be almost 50 million US dollars, representing a 35 percent increase from the previous year. Most impact mitigation...
This publication presents a protocol to be used when implementing the Quality, Relevance and Comprehensiveness of Impact Mitigation Services (QIMS) Survey in Swaziland. It also serves as a supervision...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Public Private partnership (PPP) for handwashing newsletter are as follows: updates from the country programs; new publications & research; capacity-building...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Public Private partnership (PPP) for handwashing newsletter are as follows: updates from the country programs; opinion: Will it be ash or soap? News in...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Handwashing initiative Newsletter are as follows: handwashing gets mileage in Johannesburg; the handwashing initiative...
After years of debate, most people working in water and sanitation now agree that hygiene promotion is vitally important. But even now, many programs and projects either ignore it or do it badly. This...