This document sets out WaterAid’s framework for hygiene promotion and behaviour change in the countries where it works. It will also help organisations that work on hygiene in the context of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes. WaterAid has developed similar frameworks for sanitation and menstrual hygiene.
The framework’s structure is as follows:
- Part 1 gives a background to the framework
- Part 2 provides an overview of existing literature on hygiene promotion.
- Part 3 contains a brief history and overview of WaterAid’s hygiene-related work.
- Part 4 sets out key principles for country programmes on hygiene promotion, within the framework of a programme cycle.
- Part 5 outlines WaterAid’s minimum commitments for hygiene promotion work – these make up WaterAid’s policy on hygiene promotion
WaterAid, 2012. Hygiene framework. WaterAid, London, UK. 56 p. : 9 fig., 1 tab., photogr. Includes glossary and references. Available at: http://washurl.net/6fyfgy
So my guilt comes bubbling up reading the intro in the pdf. The sad thing is: I get so frustrated that conversations on clean sustainable water, along with the actions to provide it, too often negate any mention of sanitation! Yet here I am, just as guilty, in that I tend to position hygiene as important but in the back seat, a sub chapter…. to sanitation.
The section “Why Hygiene” in the pdf does a excellent job to summarize in a detail fashion the facts as to why we need a comprehensive effort.
it is WASH! not WAsh, not WASh, not WAS + h I encourage people at least to take the time from their busy schedules to read that at least.
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