Behavior Change & Communications

According to USAID, behavior change and communications focuses on facilitating and encouraging health-promoting behaviors. It uses behavior as a lens to ensure appropriate use of and demand for improved services; it also maintains this approach in planning and designing infrastructure and services. Resources available in this sub-theme include school hygiene seminars, hygiene support contacts, and information on safe hygiene practices.

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Behavior Change & Communications Resources

Spring Project Year 2 Annual Report

Published: 
November 15, 2013
U.S. Agency for International Development
This Annual Report highlights SPRING's accomplishments during Project Year (PY) 2, a year of tremendous growth and technical development. In our PY2 work plan, SPRING's core-funded global and technical leadership activities were organized into six strategies including: (1)...Read more
Regional focus: 
UgandaSub-Saharan Africa

Improving Sanitation, Building Skills in Household Latrine Construction

Published: 
June 1, 2012
Relief InternationalU.S. Agency for International Development
This success story is from the Ghana WASH, USAID-funded, project. It focuses on how the project built local capacity and demand for household latrines.Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

Ghana Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project - Success Story - Improving Youth Hygiene, With Comic Books for Students, By Students

Published: 
January 1, 2012
U.S. Agency for International Development
For young students, learning lessons on hygiene and sanitation is now as easy as reading a comic book. The USAID-supported Ghana WASH Project is using a new approach - an educational comic book - to share sanitation and hygiene messaging with youth, and the storyline is informed by students'...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

USAID Ghana WASH Project: Modules for Training Community Facilitators in Behavior Change Communication in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

Published: 
May 1, 2011
U.S. Agency for International Development
The manual is made up of two parts. The first part, Training Manual for Community Facilitators in Behavior Change Communication in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion Sector, provides detailed content and additional information on topics discussed during the training sessions. Copies may be...Read more
Regional focus: 
GhanaSub-Saharan Africa

Cape Verde - Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Project

Published: 
January 1, 2011
Millennium Challenge Corporation
The overall objective of this survey is to collect relevant information on water, sanitation and hygiene sectors in Praia, hinterlands of Santiago and Sal Islands. Specifically, the survey collects information on: The socio-demographic characteristics of the household; determine the levels of...Read more
Regional focus: 
Cabo VerdeSub-Saharan Africa

Integrated Health, Water and Sanitatino Project: Beira and Chibabava District

Published: 
April 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this project was to improve the health status of a selected peri-urban and rural population, through the provision of safe and portable water, and by community mobilization and education. This is the final evaluation for the project, which took place in Beira and Chibava Districts,...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Training of Trainers Workshop: Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

Published: 
July 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
The project goal is to reduce water-and-sanitation-related diseases, specifically guinea worm, by 30 percent in the project area: the six districts in Central Benin's Zou province. To attain this goal, the project is to establish community-level sociohealth development committees (CDSSs),...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Training of Trainers Workshop II and Training Materials Development for the Water and Sanitation Component of Sanru II

Published: 
October 1, 1986
U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID/Zaire requested WASH Project assistance in developing a training strategy for the water and sanitation component of the SANRU II project. The key activities during the visit were to assess the level of training skills of the National Training Team, design and conduct a two-week intermediate...Read more
Regional focus: 
Congo, Dem. Rep.Sub-Saharan Africa

Maintaining Safe Water Supply and Sanitation: Student Text

Published: 
January 1, 1980
U.S. Agency for International Development
Unhygienic conditions, such as improper excreta disposal and unsafe water supply, which are common conditions in many of our rural communities, lead to increased illness of the residents and can lead to death, particularly for children. Poor personal hygiene habits also lead to increased illness...Read more
Regional focus: 
LesothoSub-Saharan Africa

Social Soundness Analysis: Upper Volta Village Water Supply Design Project

U.S. Agency for International Development
It is the purpose of this annex to delineate within the social analysis format, those issues that are of paramount importance to the successful implementation of the project including: the socio-economic and political structure of the region as related to successful project design; correct...Read more
Regional focus: 
Burkina FasoSub-Saharan Africa

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