Hygiene Promotion

Updated - Tuesday 30 January 2007

Christine Sijbesma and Brian Appleton (2005)

This Thematic Overview Paper will give you a taste of the great potential that Hygiene Promotion (HP) has to reduce the death toll from poor hygiene. It will also help in making you aware that there are more effective ways to implement HP programmes, and that not using them can lead to disappointing results and wasted resources.

The audience for whom the Hygiene Promotion TOP has been written is wide. It consists of policy makers, practitioners, educators, trainers and researchers in the fields of health, hygiene, water supply and sanitation, but also those involved in broader programmes for the alleviation of rural or urban poverty.

This TOP may therefore meet different aims of different users: an introduction to, and a rationale for, HP for policy makers and programme planners and managers; access to recent research and case studies for researchers, educators and trainers; information on approaches and experiences of colleagues for practitioners; and opportunities to give your feedback or add your contributions.

Hopefully, the TOP will inspire you to advocate and put into practice some of the successful HP approaches described.