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
Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Uganda Learning Brief
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January 1, 1970The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in a number of sub-counties in Uganda. In this learning brief, we reviewed Plan International's CLTS activities in Uganda and found a variety of contributions to national policies and guidelines and a model for...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaTesting CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Niger Learning Brief
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January 1, 1970The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in two departments (districts) in Niger. In this learning brief, we review Plan International Niger's activities. We found that Plan International Niger is gradually building capacity for CLTS at the district and...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaFrom Haiti to Indonesia: What's Different; What's the Same in CLTS Implementation
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January 1, 2016The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
This seven country evaluation of case studies presents common features of CLTS implementation, identifies bottlenecks and enabling conditions, and shares lessons relevant to scaling-up CLTS. The research in question identifies implications for practice and delivers policy recommendations across a...Read more
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IndonesiaHaitiDelivering Effective WASH Training
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December 19, 2016This workshop gives you the knowledge and skills you need to effectively facilitate and adapt lessons on WASH. During this workshop you build core skills in the areas of communication, instruction and facilitation. You are also exposed to basic concepts in lesson design. After completing the...Read more
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GlobalMEASURING HYGIENE BEHAVIOUR IN LA MOSQUITIA REGION OF HONDURAS
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August 1, 2016Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
Study on hygiene practices in Honduras. Read more
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HondurasHow and When to Wash Your Hands
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This poster can be used to help educate people about how and when to wash hands.Read more
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GlobalMenstrual hygiene matters: An essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls
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June 7, 2016WaterAid
This educational and empowering resource tackles without shame or recourse to euphemism an issue that is a major stumbling block for the realisation not only of the rights to water and sanitation of girls and women, but for ensuring gender equality. Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of...Read more
World Vision's Approach to Community Engagement for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Projects
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October 7, 2016World Vision
This report will serve to articulate the method of community engagement that World Vision has implemented to achieve high levels of long-term sustainability within their West Africa Regional WASH projects.Read more
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GlobalRural Laos Renovates Water Systems in Face of Longer Droughts
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June 25, 2021This article describes a community effort in the Nakai District of Central Laos. After a severe dry season in 2015, the USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (Mekong ARCC) project partnered with the International Union for Convervation of Nature to address droughts in Laos due to...Read more
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LaosEnvironmental justice and drinking water quality: are there socioeconomic disparities in nitrate levels in U.S. drinking water?
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July 13, 2021Low-income and minority communities often face disproportionately high pollutant exposures. The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, has sparked concern about broader socioeconomic disparities in exposures to drinking water contaminants. Nitrate is commonly found in drinking water, especially in...Read more
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