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

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

Designing a Sanitation Program for the Urban Poor: Case Study From Montego Bay, Jamaica

Published: 
May 1, 1997
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report provides a case study of how to design a sanitation program within the unique conditions of a peri-urban settlement. Specifically, the report considers the experience of USAID's Environmental Health Project in designing an initiative to install and maintain appropriate excreta and...Read more
Regional focus: 
JamaicaLatin America and the Caribbean

Social Marketing and Water Supply and Sanitation: an Integrated Approach

Published: 
May 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Social marketing offers a comprehensive approach to integrating improvements in water supply and sanitation with the behavior change necessary to make these technologies effective in improving public health status in developing countries.Read more

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

Training in Water and Wastewater Institutional Programs: Long-Term, Short-Term and Study Tours

Published: 
March 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Near East Bureau of the Agency for International Development requested the Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH) to identify and assess the organizations and institutions that offer high quality training and educational programs in the urban water supply and wastewater treatment sector...Read more
Regional focus: 
Middle East and North Africa

Case Study: School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus (SWASH+) Community Impact Program: Research for Policy Changes

Foundation Center
Since 2006, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has supported the Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus Community Impact program (SWASH+) in Kenya, contributing $9.5 million to CARE for the 5-year project. The initiative is an action-research and advocacy project...Read more
Regional focus: 
KenyaSub-Saharan Africa

Real Impact: Senegal the Water and Development Alliance

U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentThe Coca-Cola Company
USAID's Real Impact series highlights examples of water sector projects around the world. Each case example provides from-the-field insights about successful approaches, challenges faced, and lessons learned.Read more
Regional focus: 
SenegalSub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on Community Participation in Honduras

Published: 
March 1, 2014
World Vision
This case study from World Vision's WASH project in Honduras illustrates how World Vision partners with community leaders, local partners and the municipality to access a permanent source of clean water.Read more
Regional focus: 
Honduras

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