Hygiene papers
Full papers presented at the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop is organised by BRAC, WaterAid, WSSCC, and IRC and is part of five learning and sharing workshops on sanitation and hygiene organised in 2009 and 2010.
Stages of hygiene monitoring: an operational experience from Nepal
Authors: Gautam,O.; Adhikari,B.; Rajbhandari,K. and Jones,O., Nepal. This paper reports operational experiences of monitoring various projects in the field, from January 2007 to March 2009. It states that full-phase monitoring of hygiene with backup by programme is the only evidence-based means to show the attributable contribution from WASH for reducing associated diseases and improving health status.
Study on perception and practice of hygiene and impact on health in India
Authors: Kumar Jyoti Nath, Barenyo Chowdhury, Anish Sengupta, India. The central theme of the research paper is to assess the level of health awareness and hygienic practices and its health impacts in urban vis-à-vis rural areas in the five select states of Eastern India - Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand, Orissa & West Bengal.
Study on personal and home hygiene in flood prone communities in the Philippines
Author: L. Capistrano, Philippines. Paper based on case studies on personal and home hygiene in flood prone communities, documented by members of the WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) Philippines Coalition working in provinces which are periodically battered by typhoons, floods and volcanic eruptions.
The practice of handwashing.....
Author: Laboni Shabnam, Bangladesh. This paper explains how Hand Washing strategy has been implemented in three upazila of Jamalpur district, in north-central of Bangladesh. Here, the Dhaka Ahsania Mission carried out two programmes: the Decentralized Total Sanitation (Dishari) and the Sustainable Sanitation And Resource Mobilisation (SSARA) approach.
The role of imams and different institution in hygiene promotion of BRAC WASH programme
Authors: Babar Kabir, Sharmin Farhat Ubaid, Mahjabeen Ahmed, Mahidul Islam, Mizanur Rahman and Md. Hasan Ali Mia. This paper describes three community-based aspects of hygiene education: cooperation with Imams and the Masjid Council for Community Advancement; school hygiene promotion including construction, school brigades (health clubs), training, school committees; and promoting improved hygiene practices through folk media.
Thirty-five years of searching for answers to rural sanitation and hygiene in Bhutan (draft)
Author: John Collet, SNV Bhutan. This paper illustrates that although great progress has been made in community participation, tap and toilet construction coverage, and health education and promotion, still more needs to be done to achieve the desired effective use, hygiene behaviour change and ultimately the expected health and socio-economic impacts.
Who is responsible for soap in Pakistani school toilets?
Authors: Ayub Qutub, Fauzia Butt, Erum Bashir, Sobia Shabbi, Pakistan. This paper describes the results of a study conducted by PIEDAR which compared the observed and student- and teacher-reported hygiene practices in government and privately run schools of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The study shows that hygiene knowledge is common among the students yet hand washing with soap is not consistently practiced.
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