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

USAID Ghana WASH Project: Winrock International's Behavior Change Communication (BCC) Strategy for the Ghana WASH Project

U.S. Agency for International Development
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are powerful drivers of human development, as they affect quality of life through improved health and rising wealth. Behavior change interventions are crucial to not only improving hygienic health, but also generating multiplier social impacts. Awareness is...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Ghana
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Systematic Literature Review

Publication date:
March 1, 2014
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The project, Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability, evaluates through a rigorous research program three distinctive strategies to enhance the roles of local actors in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) interventions in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia. The project aims to learn, capture and share...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene into Nutrition Programming

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Case Study on Community Participation in Honduras

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Honduras

Frontiers of CLTS Issue 3: Disability - Making CLTS Fully Inclusive

Publication date:
July 25, 2014
WaterAid
WEDC - Loughborough University
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) aims at total sanitation. For that it has to be inclusive. There are ethical reasons for this, but the bottom line is that while any open defecation continues, all are affected. This issue of Frontiers of CLTS focuses on people with disabilities and particular...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Indonesia Learning Brief

Publication date:
September 29, 2015
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in a number of sub-districts in Indonesia. In this learning brief, we review the roles of local actors in Plan International Indonesia's program activities and highlight considerations for scalability, planning,...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
East Asia and Pacific

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Lao PDR Learning Brief

Publication date:
August 25, 2015
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Plan International supports Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) implementation in a number of districts in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR). In this learning brief, we review Plan International Laos' CLTS activities. We found that they have formed a strong working relationship...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
East Asia and Pacific

Plan Ghana CLTS Capacity Building for Natural Leaders

Publication date:
January 1, 1970
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
The Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability project is a four year, sanitation focused, operational research project that aims to advance rural sanitation efforts by improving the cost-effectiveness and scalability of the CLTS approach, with a particular focus on the role of local actors. In Ghana...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

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