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.

Behavior Change & Communications Resources

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Mozambique
Sub-Saharan Africa

Baseline Survey for the Guatemalan Highlands Rural Water and Sanitation Project

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Guatemala
Latin America and the Caribbean

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Publication date:
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

Workshop Design for the Training of Trainers

Publication date:
June 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
This training guide describes a 10-day workshop for trainers who will train field workers in performing the tasks needed to work with communities on water and sanitation activities. The training can cover activities involving technical skills, such as latrine construction, spring capping, or well...Read more

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Benin
Sub-Saharan Africa

Community Participation in Water Supply Projects and Ort Activities in Togo and Indonesia

Publication date:
March 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
Community participation in water supply projects achieves maximum impact when the communities are motivated to participate in a subsequent health-related project. This report describes case studies of two villages in Togo and two in Indonesia where oral rehydration therapy (ORT) activities were...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
South East Asia

Training of Trainers in Operations and Maintenance for Rural Potable Water Systems in Bolivia

Publication date:
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
At the request of USAID/Bolivia, WASH project consultants conducted a two-week training-of-trainers' workshop in operations & maintenance in Chochabamba, Bolivia, from November 24 - December 5, 1986. This report provides an overview and lessons learned on the workshop.Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Bolivia
Latin America and the Caribbean

Training Support for Urban Sanitation Activities in Djibouti

Publication date:
January 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report is the result of a request from the USAID Representative in Djibouti for Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project assistance in formulating training-related interventions in support of urban sanitation activities in the City of Djibouti. Since Djiboutian Independence in 1977,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Djibouti
Middle East and North Africa

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