Hygiene Behaviour - completed project

Do changes in hygiene behaviour last, and if so, what makes them last? What do the answers to these questions mean for our hygiene programmes? These are the main questions the hygiene behaviour research project intended to address. The research was funded by the European Commission under its INCO-programme (as part of the research framework programme) and by the Dutch Department for Development Cooperation.



Final Report Sustaining Changes in Hygiene Behaviour

From 2000-2003 six research teams from six different countries in Asia and Africa undertook a research study into the effectiveness of hygiene promotion interventions and the sustainability of changes in hygiene behaviour.

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Overview - Hygiene Behaviour

Eight partners from Asia, Africa and Europe work together since 2000 to develop and implement a research to help understand the conditions under which changes in hygiene behaviour promoted by various projects take place and are sustained.

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Newsletters

Newsletter of the Sustainability of Changes in Hygiene Behaviour project. Compiled by Eveline Bolt, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.

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