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Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of menstrual hygiene in different settings, including communities, schools and emergencies for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries.
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
This paper discusses the response of the Oxfam GB team to flooding in Pakistan. Primary activities included Emergency Food Security and Livelihoods and WASH with emphasis on having a gender lens during the design and implementation of the project. A list of best practices as well as challenges are included.
This guide : • Explains why it is important to adopt a harmonized set of drinking-water and sanitation questions in household surveys. • Introduces a set of harmonized survey questions related to drinking-water and sanitation issues. • Explains how household survey data are used to estimate access to drinking-water and sanitation. • Discusses the classifi cation of drinking-water and sanitation technologies as “improved” or “unimproved,” and provides defi nitions for such technologies. • Presents tools and information for monitoring the use of improved drinking-water and sanitation facilities.
The PHAST approach helps people to feel more confident about themselves and their ability to take action and make improvements in their communities. Feelings of empowerment and personal growth are as important as the physical changes, such as cleaning up the environment or building latrines. The guide has seven steps. The first five help take the community group through the process of developing a plan to prevent diarrhoeal diseases by improving water supply, hygiene behaviours and sanitation. The sixth and seventh steps involve monitoring and evaluation. There is also a French version. Please click here or the link above to view PHAST Step-By-Step Guide: A Participatory Approach for the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This presentation describes the results of the CORE Group Social & Behavioral Change Working Group’s “Powerful to Change Analysis” of Hand Washing with Soap, looking at USAID-funded child survival projects that have had the best results in HWWS in order to identify some of the common elements in their approaches. One commonality in these projects was having a systematic home visitation strategy (as used in Care Groups). Please click here to view slides.
This technical do-it-yourself guide published by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) provides step-by-step instruction on building simple pit latrines. It was designed for use at the individual household level to assist families in West Africa who have already decided to build their own latrines. The goal of the guide is to ensure that, as a result of users’ total satisfaction with the quality of their new latrines, they will permanently abandon the practice of open air defecation.
Organizational Authors:
The Global Water Initiative
International Institute for Environment and Development
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation facilities and hygiene practices due to their debilitating illness. This guidance document is intended for Home-Based Care (HBC) practitioners serving people living with this disease as well as water and sanitation engineers and technicians tasked with providing community water supply and household sanitation systems.
The Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) methodology was published by the World Health Organization in 1998. Since then, a great deal has been learned about how to successfully implement PHAST. This guide provides updated advice based on over ten years of field-based learning. It was created in direct response to requests from CRS country programs to understand how PHAST should be incorporated into their water and sanitation projects, how to implement it at the field level, and how to train facilitators to implement PHAST at the community level.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This presentation describes the results of the CORE Group Social & Behavioral Change Working Group’s “Powerful to Change Analysis” of Hand Washing with Soap, looking at USAID-funded child survival projects that have had the best results in HWWS in order to identify some of the common elements in their approaches. One commonality in these projects was having a systematic home visitation strategy (as used in Care Groups). Please click here to view slides.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
Quality Improvement and Verification Checklists (QIVCs) provide a detailed check of development workers’ performance on their key processes in order to monitor and improve their performance, identify “system problems,” and to encourage them. QIVCs are being used in many countries throughout the world to improve key processes.&
This manual aims to provide participatory gender-sensitive training to water professionals at the policy, project and administrative levels through building their capacity for mainstreaming gender into WASH programmes. The manual aims to provide participatory gender sensitive training to water professionals at the policy, project and administrative levels and promote an understanding of and commitment to the importance of participation of both women and men in sustainability of these programmes.
Organizational Authors:
SNV
Protos for the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion-Rwanda
This technical do-it-yourself guide published by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) provides step-by-step instruction on building simple pit latrines. It was designed for use at the individual household level to assist families in West Africa who have already decided to build their own latrines. The goal of the guide is to ensure that, as a result of users’ total satisfaction with the quality of their new latrines, they will permanently abandon the practice of open air defecation.
Organizational Authors:
The Global Water Initiative
International Institute for Environment and Development
This guide : • Explains why it is important to adopt a harmonized set of drinking-water and sanitation questions in household surveys. • Introduces a set of harmonized survey questions related to drinking-water and sanitation issues. • Explains how household survey data are used to estimate access to drinking-water and sanitation. • Discusses the classifi cation of drinking-water and sanitation technologies as “improved” or “unimproved,” and provides defi nitions for such technologies. • Presents tools and information for monitoring the use of improved drinking-water and sanitation facilities.
The Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) methodology was published by the World Health Organization in 1998. Since then, a great deal has been learned about how to successfully implement PHAST. This guide provides updated advice based on over ten years of field-based learning. It was created in direct response to requests from CRS country programs to understand how PHAST should be incorporated into their water and sanitation projects, how to implement it at the field level, and how to train facilitators to implement PHAST at the community level.
The PHAST approach helps people to feel more confident about themselves and their ability to take action and make improvements in their communities. Feelings of empowerment and personal growth are as important as the physical changes, such as cleaning up the environment or building latrines. The guide has seven steps. The first five help take the community group through the process of developing a plan to prevent diarrhoeal diseases by improving water supply, hygiene behaviours and sanitation. The sixth and seventh steps involve monitoring and evaluation. There is also a French version. Please click here or the link above to view PHAST Step-By-Step Guide: A Participatory Approach for the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases.
Addressing gender and water together seeks to ensure that the contributions of both men and women are recognised. To manage water effectively and sustainably, it is important to understand the different roles of men and women and to target action appropriately. Re-examining how women and men manage water will allow us to:
Share benefits from use of water
Make progress towards more sustainable use of water; and
Maximize social and economic benefit from sustainable use of water
This 4-page tip sheet is designed to help WASH cluster/sector leads and partners design quality WASH projects that reflect the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men. The aim is to train users in GM coding skills and provide an opportunity to practise with the Vetting Form, and through the use of practical examples and tips, to improve projects by bringing gender dimensions into the needs analysis, the activities and the outcomes.
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation facilities and hygiene practices due to their debilitating illness. This guidance document is intended for Home-Based Care (HBC) practitioners serving people living with this disease as well as water and sanitation engineers and technicians tasked with providing community water supply and household sanitation systems.
This presentation describes the results of the CORE Group Social & Behavioral Change Working Group’s “Powerful to Change Analysis” of Hand Washing with Soap, looking at USAID-funded child survival projects that have had the best results in HWWS in order to identify some of the common elements in their approaches. One commonality in these projects was having a systematic home visitation strategy (as used in Care Groups). Please click here to view slides.
This technical do-it-yourself guide published by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) provides step-by-step instruction on building simple pit latrines. It was designed for use at the individual household level to assist families in West Africa who have already decided to build their own latrines. The goal of the guide is to ensure that, as a result of users’ total satisfaction with the quality of their new latrines, they will permanently abandon the practice of open air defecation.
Organizational Authors:
The Global Water Initiative
International Institute for Environment and Development
This guide : • Explains why it is important to adopt a harmonized set of drinking-water and sanitation questions in household surveys. • Introduces a set of harmonized survey questions related to drinking-water and sanitation issues. • Explains how household survey data are used to estimate access to drinking-water and sanitation. • Discusses the classifi cation of drinking-water and sanitation technologies as “improved” or “unimproved,” and provides defi nitions for such technologies. • Presents tools and information for monitoring the use of improved drinking-water and sanitation facilities.
The Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST) methodology was published by the World Health Organization in 1998. Since then, a great deal has been learned about how to successfully implement PHAST. This guide provides updated advice based on over ten years of field-based learning. It was created in direct response to requests from CRS country programs to understand how PHAST should be incorporated into their water and sanitation projects, how to implement it at the field level, and how to train facilitators to implement PHAST at the community level.
The purpose of this technical paper is to inform staff of the potential for ground water development in country programs. It is not a planning or design guideline, but rather a general technical overview of a critical component of water development.This paper explains basic groundwater and well drilling concepts and shows how they can be employed to strengthen and expand watedevelopment programs.
The documents provide general guidelines for the planning and implementation of Title II-funded water and sanitation activities in rural Ethiopia and East Africa. The guides are the result of a cooperative effort between the USAID mission and nongovernmental organizations participating in the Title II (Food for Peace) program in East Africa to improve the effectiveness, environmental protection, and long term sustainability of water supply and sanitation activities carried out in food insecure areas of Ethiopia.
This handbook has been compiled as a source of ideas and experiences that can be used for CLTS orientation workshops, advocacy to stakeholders, training facilitators and natural leaders and implementing CLTS activities. It is a resource book especially for field staff, facilitatorsand trainers for planning, implementation and follow-up for CLTS. This document is also availabe in eight different languages: English, Fren
This 4-page tip sheet is designed to help WASH cluster/sector leads and partners design quality WASH projects that reflect the distinct needs of women, girls, boys and men. The aim is to train users in GM coding skills and provide an opportunity to practise with the Vetting Form, and through the use of practical examples and tips, to improve projects by bringing gender dimensions into the needs analysis, the activities and the outcomes.
This publication by C-Change and WASHplus describes how to incorporate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) into PEPFAR’s adult and pediatric basic care packages (BCP), identifies opportunities for WASH/PEPFAR Integration, potential in-country partners, and sanitation/WASH promotion materials, and explores possible sanitation programming within PEPFAR.
Globally, more than 33 million people now live with HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS 2009). This pandemic has dramatically changed patterns of disease in developing countries. In addition, previously rare “opportunistic” diseases have become more common. High rates of morbidity and mortality from endemic conditions such as tuberculosis (TB), diarrheal diseases, and wasting syndromes, formerly confined to the elderly and malnourished, are now common among young and middle-aged people in many development countries. With increasing availability of antiretroviral therapies (ART), more people live with HIV and AIDS and require comprehensive care, treatment, and preventive services to help boost their resilience to the endemic conditions in their environment and help them live longer and healthier lives. Recognizing the importance of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene promotion in protecting and caring for people living with HIV (PLHIV), the trend is to integrate WASH improvement into HIV and AIDS policies and programs.
As part of its palliative care approach, PEPFAR has developed a preventive care package that summarizes evidence-based interventions for PLHIV and their families in resource-poor settings. The package identifies three key hygiene improvement practices – safe drinking water, washing hands with soap, and safe handling and disposal of feces – and suggests integrating these into all HIV and AIDS programs.
This manual aims to provide participatory gender-sensitive training to water professionals at the policy, project and administrative levels through building their capacity for mainstreaming gender into WASH programmes. The manual aims to provide participatory gender sensitive training to water professionals at the policy, project and administrative levels and promote an understanding of and commitment to the importance of participation of both women and men in sustainability of these programmes.
Organizational Authors:
SNV
Protos for the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion-Rwanda
Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of menstrual hygiene in different settings, including communities, schools and emergencies for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries.
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