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May #MENSTRAVAGANZA – WASH United’s menstrual hygiene campaign
13 May 13
“If women can have moustaches we can all talk about menstruation”. With this message WASH United kicked off May MENSTRAVAGANZA, a 28-day campaign to raise awareness and break the silence around menstruation and menstrual hygiene. Messages are posted on the campaign …Continue reading →
Sanitation promotion history: US New Deal posters
11 May 13
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the US Government launched a series of economic programmes collectively known as the New Deal. The largest of these programmes, run by WPA, the Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects …Continue reading →
100 issues of the WASHplus Weekly – March 2011 to May 4, 2013
09 May 13
Below are links to the past 100 issues of the WASHplus Weekly on various sanitation and other topics. We welcome suggestions on how to make the Weekly more useful. 2013 May 4: Water & Food Security Apr 26: Focus on Cookstoves & …Continue reading →
Save Lives, Clean your Hands – BRAC video
07 May 13
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has produced a new handwashing promotion video. It shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams). The video was …Continue reading →
UNICEF/Malawi: CLTS Triggering Tools: How to Trigger for Hand Washing with Soap
25 Apr 13
UNICEF/Malawi: CLTS Triggering Tools: How to Trigger for Hand Washing with Soap, March 2013. Link to full-text, pdf An Excerpt: The tools outlined by this document were developed based on actual field research in testing, done as a collaborative effort …Continue reading →
May 8, 2013 Webinar – Removing Barriers to WASH by the RWSN equity and inclusion group
24 Apr 13
The RWSN equity and inclusion group is pleased to announce its latest webinar on Removing Barriers to WASH. If you would like to attend, please inform ShamilaJansz@wateraid.org. For more details, see below: Description: WEDC and WaterAid have developed a new …Continue reading →
WASHplus Weekly: A Handwashing Update
19 Apr 13
Issue 97 | April 19, 2013 | A Hand Washing Update The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) gave WASHplus permission to share this summary of recent hand washing literature that was recently prepared for the partnership. It …Continue reading →
WSP Launches Handwashing with Soap Toolkit
17 Apr 13
Improving handwashing with soap practices can save children’s lives by reducing preventable diseases like diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. Despite its effectiveness in reducing disease, handwashing with soap is uncommon in many countries. The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) conducted …Continue reading →
Clean the World Adds 2 New Board Members
02 Apr 13
Clean the World Adds 2 New Board Members: Laura Schwartz and Kelly Cohen to Help Promote Life-Saving Mission | Source: Marketwatch, April 2, 2013 | ORLANDO, Fla., Apr 02, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Clean the World announces the appointment of …Continue reading →
RFP: Research for Hygiene Behavioural Change among School Children in the Philippines
02 Apr 13
UNICEF has issued a request for proposal for “Research for Hygiene Behavioural Change among School Children in the Philippines”. The aim of the consultancy to “craft a simple, scalable and sustainable strategy, program and tools based on the EHCP [Essential …Continue reading →

