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Sharing experiences: effective hygiene promotion in South-East Asia and the Pacific

The publication Sharing experiences: Effective hygiene promotion in South-East Asia and the Pacific was launched on Global Hand-washing Day, Friday 15 October 2010.

The book aims to boost hygiene promotion efforts. It contains 11 new case studies from different countries and two keynote papers from international experts, all written to help people to design programs for the effective promotion of good hygiene practices.

The book is a collaboration between WaterAid Australia, the International WaterCentre, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and the contributing authors with financial support from AusAID (now Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade), the Australian Government’s overseas aid program.

Project category:  Consultancy
Key areas of work:  Public Health, WASH
Client:  Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Project date:  September 2010
Project location:  South-East Asia and the Pacific

 

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Sharing experiences: Effective hygiene promotion in South-East Asia and the Pacific (5.8 MB)

 

Download the individual book chapters

Table of content (PDF 138 kB)

Synthesis (PDF 180 kB)

A snapshot of case studies (PDF 139 kB)

Key lessons (PDF 180 kB)

 

Download keynote papers

From Semmelweis to Global Hand washing Day: What’s the latest on hygiene promotion? 

Dr Valerie Curtis, The Hygiene Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Coming into its own: Hygiene promotion for development 

Dr Christine Sijbesma, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

 

Download community-based approaches

Volunteering for water, sanitation and hygiene behaviour improvements 

Heather Moran, BESIK (Bee Saneamentu no Ijene iha Komunidade)

Stories from rural hygiene promoters in Vanuatu: PHAST, tippy taps and working with men and women

Gabrielle Halcrow and Joanne Crawford, International Women’s Development Agency; Jocelyn Loughman, World Vision Vanuatu

Hygiene Improvement Project: Why WASH matters

Renuka Bery, Julia Rosenbaum, and Eleonore Seumo, Hygiene Improvement Project / Academy for Educational Development; Elizabeth Younger, Hygiene Improvement Project / The Manoff Group

Jakarta’s impoverished kids lesson series: 10 take-home hygiene messages

Mindy Weimer, Yayasan Tirta Lestari and Mita Sirait, WatSan Action

Tugeda Uime Waka for Helti Komuniti (together we work for healthy communities)

Sarah Davies and Donna Webb, Australian Red Cross

Real involvement, real participation

Miriam Layton and Steve Layton, AT Projects

 

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Public-Private Partnership for Hand washing with Soap in Indonesia

Ida Rafiqah and Isabel Blackett, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), World Bank

The development of an entertainment education program to promote hand washing with soap among primary school children in Vietnam

Nga Kim Nguyen, The Vietnam Handwashing Initiative, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) World Bank

Global Hand washing Day and beyond

Ann Thomas, UNICEF

 

Download school focus

A strong foundation: Revising Cambodia’s National School Health Curriculum to prevent and control intestinal worms

Leng Wannak and Aminuzzaman Talukder, Helen Keller International – Cambodia; Pen Saroeun, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (School Health Department); Kim Koporc, Children Without Worms

Student-led hygiene promotion and empowerment in rural schools in the Western Pacific (a photo story)

Christian Nielsen, Live and Learn Environmental Education

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