Health education materials
Selection of web sites and publications providing health education and communication materials, and hygiene promotion materials, including audiovisuals.
Joy of Learning: participatory lesson plans on WASH
12 Jul 07
This guide is meant for teachers and others who want to design participatory learning activities on hygiene and sanitation. It is divided into two parts: theory and lesson plans. The lesson plans are organised into three sections: hygiene (including personal and food hygiene), sanitation and water. (Published in 2005)
Life skills-based hygiene education
12 Jul 07
This document contains an overview of life skills-based education in general and the development of life skills-based hygiene education materials in school sanitation and hygiene education programmes in particular. The book is divided into three sections. Section 3 provides a set of examples of lesson plans for life skills-based hygiene education.
Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC)
12 Jul 07
International resource providing pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, job aids, electronic media and other media/materials designed to promote public health. You can join the network, share materials, and search the collection database by country, subject, medium, or language. It is developed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
One of the special topics is safe water communication.
School sanitation and hygiene education India.
12 Jul 07
Resource book and handbook for teachers. Both books contain a number of activity sheets to assist managers and trainers in their work. Although the books were developed in the context of the School Water and Sanitation Towards Health and Hygiene (SWASTHH) programme in India, they provide many useful guidelines and activities that apply to similar programmes elsewhere.
Teaching-aids At Low Cost (TALC)
12 Jul 07
For pictures, posters, slides and videos on hand washing and hygiene promotion in general, I would also like to refer you to TALC, for teaching aids at low costs . TALC is a charity based in the UK. They regularly produce CD-ROMs with contributions from many different NGOs that work on health and hygiene promotion.
UNICEF IEC eWarehouse
12 Jul 07
The eWarehouse is a digital repository of information, education and communication (IEC) materials developed or produced by UNICEF India. The site allows anyone with IEC requirements related to UNICEF's programme areas to search or browse what is already available from UNICEF. Site users can then request master copies of these materials for their own reproduction and use-all through a very simple online interface.
WatSanIEC Google Group
29 Feb 08
This is a collection of water and sanitation information, education and communication (IEC) materials on water and sanitation from emergency
response and development efforts throughout the world, brought together by Emily Christensen. It has pages: on septic tank sanitation system training
tools; village water committee training materials; arsenic in water education tools; water systems; Aceh KAP surveys (Indonesia); and PHAST.
