Tettje is involved in communication in the Change hub team and focuses on editing, web publishing and communication outreach. Tettje supports in preparing documents for publishing online and in print. She is giving web instruction, is co-writer of blogs and documents, and is involved in communication activities and responsible for quality control of written texts. Tettje has a degree in English language and literature of the University of Utrecht and has worked as editor for various employers in the past.
The article titled Making sanitation subsidies effective: an IRC summer debate has been taken up in the EADI publication digest of cutting edge publications on development. Read more...
A gender approach that involves husbands and wives equitably in the whole process has led to better results. Read more...
Easy to use and low-cost leaflets and catalogues can inform potential customers. Conviction comes more from interpersonal interaction. Interactions can be with promoters, suppliers, relatives and peers, including those who have already installed a toilet. A participatory process with discussions on... Read more...
To choose the sanitation product or service that households want and can afford, couples (both men and women) need access to information on which they can base their choice. Read more...
Regarding the ‘enabling environment’ of the policies, laws, regulations and institutional and financial support, sanitation still faces a double challenge: the low priority for sanitation in comparison to water supply and economic development programmes reluctance of authorities to drop short-term... Read more...
Factors which trigger households to build and use toilets can be quite different from the messages that promoters spread. Read more...
Typical sanitation promoters are training community health workers and local leaders, council members and members of village water and sanitation committees. Read more...
PHAST is a comprehensive approach to reduce diarrhoeal diseases. Read more...
This approach encourages households to recognize, develop and meet demands for more than toilets. Read more...
A definition of sanitation marketing is the use of business principles and unsubsidized markets to make it possible that local providers meet the demands of non-poor and poor local households. (Sijbesma et al, 2010) Read more...
Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a new and promising approach to create demand for open-defecation-free environments and toilets. It uses participatory methods to empower local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware... Read more...
Information, education and communication (IEC) is the longest existing approach to demand creation. The programmes use a mix of messages by mass communication media such as radio, TV, loudspeakers, wall writings and local theatre and personal contacts. Read more...
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. The supply chain analysis assesses each component of the chain. It identifies opportunities and constraints, and ways to overcome the latter. Read more...
When the available sanitation products do not, or only partially, match the existing demand, they must be adjusted. For example, the available models, materials and/or construction methods may be too expensive for the poorer yet larger part of the market. Read more...
Certain steps are needed for strategy development. In a documentation project where IDE Vietnam, Quang Tri province and IRC worked together, some of these steps were drawn up. Read more...
To develop a programme for improved and sustainable sanitation services requires a good understanding of existing conditions and the behaviours, needs and perceptions of the target population (the “demand” side) and of the strengths and weaknesses of the “supply” side. Read more...
Governments can finance support programmes for sanitation services by the 3 Ts: Taxes, Tariffs and Transfers. Read more...
Not always do national sanitation policies allow or facilitate the development of a service delivery approach. Read more...
There are different views on programme preparations, some say it consists of six stages, others say seven and some say four. Read more...
We believe that eventually the non-sewered sanitation market can become self-sustaining and serve everyone, from the remotest rural households to the urban poor. The private sector will then have developed sufficiently to make it want and be able to raise and meet the demands for affordable... Read more...