Behavior Change & Communications
According to USAID, behavior change and communications focuses on facilitating and encouraging health-promoting behaviors. It uses behavior as a lens to ensure appropriate use of and demand for improved services; it also maintains this approach in planning and designing infrastructure and services. Resources available in this sub-theme include school hygiene seminars, hygiene support contacts, and information on safe hygiene practices.
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Behavior Change & Communications Resources
Improving Sanitation, Building Skills in Household Latrine Construction
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June 1, 2012Relief International, U.S. Agency for International Development
This success story is from the Ghana WASH, USAID-funded, project. It focuses on how the project built local capacity and demand for household latrines.Read more
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Ghana, Sub-Saharan AfricaGhana Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project - Success Story - Improving Youth Hygiene, With Comic Books for Students, By Students
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January 1, 2012U.S. Agency for International Development
For young students, learning lessons on hygiene and sanitation is now as easy as reading a comic book. The USAID-supported Ghana WASH Project is using a new approach - an educational comic book - to share sanitation and hygiene messaging with youth, and the storyline is informed by students'...Read more
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Ghana, Sub-Saharan AfricaTraining of Trainers Workshop II and Training Materials Development for the Water and Sanitation Component of Sanru II
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October 1, 1986U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID/Zaire requested WASH Project assistance in developing a training strategy for the water and sanitation component of the SANRU II project. The key activities during the visit were to assess the level of training skills of the National Training Team, design and conduct a two-week intermediate...Read more
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Congo, Dem. Rep., Sub-Saharan AfricaCase Study: School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus (SWASH+) Community Impact Program: Research for Policy Changes
Foundation Center
Since 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has supported the Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus Community Impact program (SWASH+) in Kenya, contributing $9.5 million to CARE for the 5-year project. The initiative is an action-research and advocacy project...Read more
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Kenya, Sub-Saharan AfricaReal Impact: Senegal the Water and Development Alliance
U.S. Agency for International Development, The Coca-Cola Company
USAID's Real Impact series highlights examples of water sector projects around the world. Each case example provides from-the-field insights about successful approaches, challenges faced, and lessons learned...Read more
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