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

Water for the World: Methods of Controlling South American Trypanosomiasis

Published: 
January 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note discusses methods of controlling Chagas disease and offers suggestions concerning implementation of a control program. Control is possible through relatively simple preventive measures.Read more

Water for the World: Methods of Controlling Enteric Diseases

Published: 
January 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
This technical note discusses measures which can be instituted to control the spread of enteric diseases. Special emphasis is given to basic preventive measures that should be taken to provide hygienic conditions in individual households and in the entire community.Read more

Water for the World: Planning Disease Control Programs

Published: 
January 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
Document provides 8 steps to comprising a comprehensive disease control program. Each step is intended to assure that all relevant problems and possibilities are considered in the development, implementation and evaluation of a program or project. The steps are essential for mobilizing community...Read more

Water for the World: Methods of Improving Environmental Health Conditions

Published: 
January 1, 1982
U.S. Agency for International Development
The technical note outlines several categories of diseases, as well as, specific conditions that might contribute to the transmission of the disease. In particular the focus is on water-borne, water-contact, or water-vector related diseases, and how improved environmental conditions may contribute...Read more

Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into Nutrition Programming

Published: 
May 1, 2013
U.S. Agency for International Development
This resource provides the reader with guidance on how to integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) components into nutrition programs. Provided in this document are guidance on key WASH practices, such as optimal handwashing, treatment and safe storage of household drinking water, sanitation...Read more

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Mini Toolbox for Teachers and Schools in Zambia

U.S. Agency for International Development
This toolkit was designed to help teachers, School Health and Nutrition (SHN) coordinators, and other school personnel in Zambian primary schools who are carrying out menstrual hygiene management (MHM) programs or activities in their schools. It contains a set of basic documents, such as a...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

How and When to Wash Your Hands

Center for Disease Control and Prevention
This poster can be used to help educate people about how and when to wash hands.Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

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