RESOURCES
This page provides a list of web pages, case studies, and documents such as guides and toolkits that might help you to navigate through the world of hygiene promotion and behavior change. If there is any resources you think we should know about, don't hesitate to contact us!
Hygiene Promotion
Managing hygiene promotion in WASH programmes (2014) - Guide by WEDC
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WaterAid's Guide to Handwashing (video)
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Training guide​ by UNICEF Somalia
Step-by-step guide for five-day training, including themes like community based approach, children feeding practices, diarrhea management...
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Hygiene Behavior Change - Guides and Toolkits
Hygiene Behavior Change & Covid-19 by WaterAid
WaterAid's hygiene behavior change response to COVID-19
Discusses 'theory of change' and changing 'five key behaviors' as a part of their hygiene behavior change intervention package
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Hygiene Behavior Change and Covid-19 by Hygiene Hub​​
Focusing especially on Handwashing with soap (HWWS) promotion
Improving Health through Behavior Change - A Process Guide on Hygiene Promotion
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The purpose of this guide is to support the planning and management of effective hygiene promotion for the purpose of preventing diarrheal disease. To do this, the guide provides a systematic description of a methodology called Behavior-Centered Programming
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Behavior Change Toolkit for International Development Practitioners Enabling People to Practice Positive Behaviors (2017) available in English and French
This toolkit gives you the know-how you need to understand people’s behaviours and to help them to make positive changes in their lives. Use it when preparing programme strategies, developing project proposals, and reviewing the quality of your interventions.
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Tool manual for Participatory Hygiene And Sanitation Transformation
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By Japan International Cooperation Agency-Primary Health Care Project (JICA). The primary objective of this Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) Manual is to equip the health extension staff with skills that will make them effective facilitators at community level.
Your way to behavior change - webpage
This webpage has tens of guides and other documents addressing behavior change, many in context of WASH but also in general! It has also a section of "Specific guidance on formative research and measuring behaviours"
Frameworks and approaches
Community Dialogue Approach briefly explained (video) by Malaria Consortium
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Behaviour Centred Design framework/approach (several sources below)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine home pages
Behavioral Centered design: practitioner's manual
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Using Nudges
Poster Ideas
Poster Ideas in several languages, especially for children (handwashing- related) by CDC
particularly the posters targeting children here address emotions which has been perceived as a good starting point in hygiene promotion
Organizations for further resources
*Organizations listed here have no connection to project Zani other than topic wise
Global Handwashing Partnership home page
Works to save children's lives and improve health by promoting handwashing with soap. Take a look especially their resources section with topics like behavior change and real-life cases
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Hygiene Hub home page
Take a special look at their pages for different real-life cases from all over the world
WaterAid home page
WaterAid's focus is resolutely on all three essentials: clean water, improved sanitation and proper hygiene. They are determined to make clean water, reliable toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation.
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Splash home page
Splash focuses on clean water at scale, adding customized hygiene education services to solve sanitation challenges. They design child-focused water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and menstrual health solutions for governments in some of the world’s biggest, low-resource cities.
Take a look at their project WISE running between 2019-2023: This initiative will bring improved water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure; behavior change programs for kids and adults; and strengthened menstrual health services for girls aged 10 and above.
Malaria Consortium home page
Their work is focused on the control, management and, where appropriate, the eventual elimination of a range of diseases - malaria, pneumonia, diarrhoea, dengue and neglected tropical diseases.
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WED - Water Engineering and Development Center home page
One of WED's focus areas is WASH, emphasis on low- and middle-income countries.
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