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

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Uganda Learning Brief

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

Testing CLTS Approaches for Scalability: Niger Learning Brief

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Sub-Saharan Africa

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

Publication date:
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/Country focus:
Indonesia
Haiti

Delivering Effective WASH Training

Publication date:
December 19, 2016
This workshop gives you the knowledge and skills you need to effectively facilitate and adapt lessons on WASH. During this workshop you build core skills in the areas of communication, instruction and facilitation. You are also exposed to basic concepts in lesson design. After completing the...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Global

Rural Laos Renovates Water Systems in Face of Longer Droughts

Publication date:
June 25, 2021
This article describes a community effort in the Nakai District of Central Laos. After a severe dry season in 2015, the USAID Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (Mekong ARCC) project partnered with the International Union for Convervation of Nature to address droughts in Laos due to...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Laos

Environmental justice and drinking water quality: are there socioeconomic disparities in nitrate levels in U.S. drinking water?

Publication date:
July 13, 2021
Low-income and minority communities often face disproportionately high pollutant exposures. The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, has sparked concern about broader socioeconomic disparities in exposures to drinking water contaminants. Nitrate is commonly found in drinking water, especially in...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States

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