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Hygiene Promotion & Community Mobilisation
Advocacy - Influencing Leaders (DC)
"Advocacy is the action of delivering an argument to gain commitment from political and social leaders and to prepare a society for a particular…
Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST)
PHAST stands for “Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation”. The approach is a participatory learning methodology that seeks to empower…
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS)
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an approach which helps rural communities to understand and realise the negative effects of poor sanitation…
Child Hygiene and Sanitation Training (CHAST)
Children’s Hygiene and Sanitation Training (CHAST) is an approach for promoting personal hygiene among children. CHAST is based on the well-…
School Campaigns (DC)
A school campaign on water and sanitation consists of two main components: one component is the provision of safe water and sanitation facilities in…
Media Campaigns - Posters and Flyers (DC)
The media (television, radio, print media, internet and email) play a significant part in spreading information on Sustainable Sanitation and Water…
Media Campaigns - Radio (DC)
The media (television, radio, print media, internet and email) play a significant role in spreading information and raising awareness on water and…
Creating Information Material (DC)
Creating appropriate and specific information materials for water and sanitation programmes is of key importance and a way to assure a strong and…
Demand Creation - General
Various water and sanitation programmes have failed in the past because they were supply driven. It is of prime importance to understand that people…
Simple Handwashing Devices
Hand washing with soap is the simplest way to prevent a variety of pathogens from entering our bodies and making us sick. Children living in…
Menstrual Hygiene Management
Recruiting and Training of Hygiene Promotion Facilitators
In humanitarian crises, hygiene promotion campaigns are conducted by different types of facilitators, who need to be recruited and trained by the…
Ensuring Appropriate Operations and Maintenance Services
Hundreds of projects around the world demonstrate how newly built Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) infrastructure deteriorates quickly after they…
Selecting and Distributing Hygiene Items
Selecting and distributing hygiene items in an appropriate and effective manner is key to successfully implementing a hygiene promotion campaign. The…
Preventing Gender-Based Violence (Camps and Prolonged Encampments)
When populations are (forcefully) displaced in face of humanitarian crises, the social networks and family units of the refugees and Internally…
Hygiene Promotion Campaigning in Prolonged Encampments
Throughout the stages of a humanitarian crisis, refugee populations and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in camps must be safeguarded against water…