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

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Congo, Dem. Rep.
Sub-Saharan Africa

A Study of the Community Promotion Component of the Rural Sanitation Project in Bolivia

Publication date:
May 1, 1984
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report deals with the community participation component of the Rural Sanitation Project and also provides an evaluation design for the project. The key aspect evaluated is the effectiveness of the work of the sanitary technicians in promoting and supporting community participation through the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Bolivia
Latin America and the Caribbean

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Middle East and North Africa

Water for the World: Methods of Controlling Enteric Diseases

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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

Publication date:
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

Coordination of WASH Information Activities and Exchange With International Information Centers, Holland and England, April 5-17, 1981

Publication date:
April 17, 1981
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report details USAID coordination efforts in the WASH sector with the UK and Dutch governments to further develop industry standards. The report addresses technologies, new information, new development and training methods, community education and empowerment, and evaluation and planning of...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Europe and Central Asia

Successful Rural Water Supply Projects and the Concerns of Women

Publication date:
September 1, 1980
U.S. Agency for International Development
The International Decade on Drinking Water and Sanitation, 1980- 1990, designed to bring clear water and sanitation to 1.5 billion people in developing countries, will fail unless community participation, with special emphasis on women, is incorporated into all rural water supply projects. So...Read more

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