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Global Handwashing Day 2019: Clean Hands for All

Published on: 14/10/2019
October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives.

A framework for targeting water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in pastoralist populations in the Afar region of Ethiopia

An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches.
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Hygiene: a crucial piece of the puzzle for the impact of WASH

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School children stage a performance at the Global Hand Washing Day event, 2018

Marking Global Handwashing Day 2018

Published on: 18/01/2019
The Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda organises the annual commemoration of Global Handwashing Day. IRC Uganda Country Office was there to document the highlights.

Webinar: Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change – lessons across WASH, health, and education

Webinar: Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change – lessons across WASH, health, and education

Published on: 30/05/2018
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts.

Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change : lessons across WASH, health, and education

A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts.
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Burkina Faso: woman washing her hands

Webinar Discussion: Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change – lessons across WASH, health, and education

Published on: 08/05/2018
The Global Handwashing Partnership and IRC are organising a discussion on 9 May 2018 at 10 am ET, focused on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Hygiene behaviours one of the most effective ways to improve outcomes in health, education, and...

Sanitation, water and hygiene together helps in improving nutritional outcomes : synthesis document

Sanitation and malnutrition: challenges and opportunities
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World Bank meeting in Addis Abeba

World Bank targets smarter sanitation communication for rural Ethiopia

Published on: 05/04/2017
The World Bank in Ethiopia has commissioned a rapid survey of what motivates people to upgrade their latrines, with the aim of delivering behaviour change communication materials with greater impact.

President Yoweri Museveni washes his hands at the Global Hand Washing Day ceremony in Kamuli District, 14th October

Making hand washing a habit: What stands in the way?

Published on: 26/10/2016
For decades, people in Uganda have been encouraged to wash their hands as a way of preventing the spread of diseases. However, the percentage of the population accessing and using hand washing facilities remains low at only 36%. What are the challenges?

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Much ado about handwashing in Burkina Faso

Published on: 20/10/2016
The 9th International Handwashing Day was celebrated a few days later on 18 October in Gnagna Province, East Region, Burkina Faso.

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Est du Burkina: ferveur autour de la Journée mondiale de lavage des mains

Published on: 15/10/2016
La 9e Journée Mondiale du Lavage des Mains a été commémorée en différé le 18 octobre dernier à Bilanga dans la province de la Gnagna dans la région Est du Burkina Faso.

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Global Handwashing Day

Published on: 03/08/2016
Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Celebrated annually on October 15, Global Handwashing Day was...

Africa Water Week

A healthy WASH conference: 6th Africa Water Week

Published on: 19/07/2016
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week.

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National Department of Health launches hand hygiene behaviour change strategy

Published on: 14/07/2016
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change.

Ghana : local NGOs promote toilets and hygiene for better health

A credit scheme helps families to build household toilets in northern Ghana. A story about action learning supported by the Dutch WASH Alliance.
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Hygiene promotion in Bhutan : does it work and at what cost?

Poster sharing the results of a hygiene cost effectiveness study in Bhutan.
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Group handwashing Assam. Unicef

Handwashing groupies

Published on: 15/10/2015
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer.

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Helping handwashing happen

Published on: 14/10/2015
Handwashing with soap is still the most effective way to reduce the spread of diarrheal infections. Today on Global handwashing day, hygiene and sanitation expert Alana Potter talks about key messages from IRC's experience how to make hygiene promotion work.

UN consensus: Hygiene stays on the Sustainable Development Agenda

Published on: 03/08/2015
1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target.

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A toilet for 66 million people in rural Bangladesh

Published on: 11/06/2015
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it...

#safeHANDS WHO campaign poster

Health workers must have #safeHANDS

Published on: 05/05/2015
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands.

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Le dilemme de la poule ou l’œuf : promouvoir les pratiques hygiéniques ou favoriser la construction d’ouvrages ?

Published on: 09/12/2014
Les programmes d'assainissement se concentrent en général sur la construction d'ouvrages, au détriment d'une promotion soutenue pour leur usage. Or, cette dernière peut faire plus pour la santé que n'importe quelle construction. N'importe quelle? Et si certains ouvrages favorisaient l'adoption de...

Efficacité des interventions en matière d'hygiène et d’assainissement

Etude de cas des latrines EcoSan dans le cadre du projet d'appui à l'assainissement familial dans 12 communes rurales des régions du Plateau Central...
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The Challenge of Measuring Changes in Hygiene Practices

Published on: 18/09/2014
IRC updated its ladder to measure effectiveness of hygiene interventions, which is breaking down hygiene practices according to categories, and that can be used to compare the "before" and "after" behaviour of a beneficiary, for a given intervention.

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