| Title | Life skills-based hygiene education : a guidance document on concepts, development and experiences with life skills-based hygiene education in school sanitation and hygiene education programmes. |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Authors | Postma, L, Getkate, R, van Wijk-Sijbesma, CA |
| Secondary Title | Technical paper series / IRC |
| Volume | 42 |
| Pagination | xiv, 144 p. : 12 boxes, 1 fig., 10 tab. |
| Date Published | 2004-12-01 |
| Publisher | IRC |
| Place Published | Delft, The Netherlands |
| ISSN Number | 9066870451 |
| Keywords | food hygiene, guidelines, health education, participatory methods, personal hygiene, sanitation, schools, sdihyg, solid wastes, water supply, water-related diseases |
| Abstract | The paper is divided into three sections: section 1 gives a general introduction to life skills-based hygiene education; section 2 gives a general overview of the content of life skills-based hygiene education; and section 3 provides a set of examples of lesson plans for life skills-bases hygiene education. Focus is on primary school children. The document is based on the experience of the education programme teams of IRC and UNICEF collaborating in a global school sanitation and hygiene education project in six countries (Burkina Faso, Colombia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam and Zambia) and three states in India. |
| Notes | 28 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 203.2 |
