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

Spring Project Year 2 Annual Report: October 1, 2012 - September 30, 2013

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

Baseline Survey for the Guatemalan Highlands Rural Water and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
To achieve project goals and objectives, 200 potable water systems and 24,000 domestic latrines will be constructed. to complement the provision of water and sanitation activities, a sanitary/health education component will be implemented on a sustainable basis by the communities served. Six...Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Published: 
July 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
All too often, water and sanitation projects focus on new facilities to the neglect of sanitation and hygiene behaviors. This study makes a case for letting the determination of what behavioral sanitation changes may reasonably be introduced within the cultural and religious milieu of the target...Read more

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

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Uganda Learning Brief

Published: 
January 1, 1970
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in a number of sub-counties in Uganda. In this learning brief, we reviewed Plan International's CLTS activities in Uganda and found a variety of contributions to national policies and guidelines and a model for...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Niger Learning Brief

Published: 
January 1, 1970
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in two departments (districts) in Niger. In this learning brief, we review Plan International Niger's activities. We found that Plan International Niger is gradually building capacity for CLTS at the district and...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

From Haiti to Indonesia: What's Different; What's the Same in CLTS Implementation

Published: 
January 1, 2016
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
This seven country evaluation of case studies presents common features of CLTS implementation, identifies bottlenecks and enabling conditions, and shares lessons relevant to scaling-up CLTS. The research in question identifies implications for practice and delivers policy recommendations across a...Read more
Regional focus: 
IndonesiaHaiti

World Vision's Approach to Community Engagement for Sustainable Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Projects

Published: 
October 7, 2016
World Vision
This report will serve to articulate the method of community engagement that World Vision has implemented to achieve high levels of long-term sustainability within their West Africa Regional WASH projects.Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

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