Toilets, trash and social status: the top 10 emergency hygiene challenges Read more...
The results of a three-country hygiene cost effectiveness study make interesting reading. Read more...
Handwashing Promotion: Monitoring and Evaluation Module, 2013. UNICEF. Full text, pdf Prepared by Jelena Vujcic, MPH and Pavani K. Ram, MD, University at Buffalo. This guide will walk you through planning and implementing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for your handwashing Read more...
IRC and the BRAC WASH programme's efforts in reaching out to men through the tea stall approach as informal meeting spaces for men to talk about hygiene in Bangladesh. Read more...
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar promotes hygiene and sanitation as South Asia UNICEF Ambassador. Read more...
If the system isn't hygienically used and operated, people's lives and health will not be improved. Read more...
Eight African countries are creatively achieving the goals of community led total sanitation programmes (CLTS) including one idea in Malawi where handwashing is monitored according to the health of tree seedlings planted beneath water outlets. Read more...
An investment of US$ 5 per person per year (the implementers’ cost only, not households or district) in Mozambique saw improvements in latrine use, handwashing and drinking water management Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh released a handwashing promotion video on 5 May 2013 to coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual global campaign to promote better hand hygiene in health care. Read more...
Two presentations about monitoring handwashing behaviour change. Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...
Using data from formative research to focus messaging on mothers’ aspirations for their children and fine-tuning activities based on feedback from the field and household survey data have been key to developing and implementing a handwashing with soap behavior change program in Vietnam. Read more...
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Learning Note found that beliefs and ease of access to soap and water were correlated with handwashing with soap behaviors for given proxy measures among mothers and caretakers in Peru and Senegal. Read more...
Millions of people across the globe celebrated the 4th annual Global Handwashing Day on 15 October 2011, emphasising the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective, simple, and affordable way to prevent disease. Read more...
Schools that promote a healthy learning environment for pupils ensure that there is access to water and sanitation facilities and that teachers engage pupils frequently on discussions about health. In these schools the number of children who washed hands frequently increased from six percent to... Read more...
Unilever through its Lifebuoy soap brand has reached 100,000 students in over 80 schools across Nairobi County its hand washing campaign. Read more...
Maintained by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this web page provides an online reference, including a searchable database, on enabling technologies for handwashing with soap for programme managers. Read more...
