This manual aims to help development workers reduce diarrhoeal diseases by presenting methodologies to promote behavioural change for safer hygiene practices, and to make hygiene promotion programmes more effective.
| Title | Towards better programming : a manual on hygiene promotion |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 1999 |
| Authors | Curtis, V, Kanki, B |
| Secondary Title | Water, environment and sanitation technical guidelines series / UNICEF |
| Volume | no. 6 |
| Pagination | 82 p. : ill. |
| Date Published | 1999-05-01 |
| Publisher | UNICEF Water, Environment and Sanitation Section |
| Place Published | New York, NY, USA |
| Keywords | behaviour, case studies, communication, diarrhoeal diseases, health education, hygiene, manuals, planning, programmes, sanitation, schools, sdihyg |
| Abstract | This manual aims to help development workers reduce diarrhoeal diseases by presenting methodologies to promote behavioural change for safer hygiene practices, and to make hygiene promotion programmes more effective. It draws on a series of detailed studies in the town of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso. After defining hygiene promotion, the manual describes the steps to be taken in designing a hygiene promotion programme. This is followed by a chapter on practices, such as unsafe disposal of stools and not washing hands with soap after stool contact, which put people at risk of diarrhoea. It then suggests ways to work with target communities to design safer hygiene practices. These include an environmental walk, checklist observation and structured observation. To find out what motivates the adoption of safe hygiene practices, the manual presents the following tools: focus group discussions; interviews with safe practitioners (women); and behaviour trials. Finally the manual looks at how people communicate and how to use this to design an effective hygiene communication programme. |
| Notes | 11 ref. |
| Custom 1 | 203.2, 304 |
