Key lessons learned from WaterAid Australia's hygiene promotion workshop (June 2010 Melbourne)
Within the framework of WaterAid Australia's learning and sharing project on hygiene promotion (HP), forty-five practitioners and researchers were convened on 9 June 2010 in Melbourne for a community of practise workshop on hygiene promotion. The workshop sought to map out progress, share experiences, and identify lessons learned in the development and evaluation of hygiene promotion programmes.
During this event, IRC’s Christine Sijbesma made a keynote presentation entitled, Coming Into Its Own: Hygiene Promotion For Development. Sijbesma offered insights to the study of hygiene promotion programmes and introduced the theoretical approach of Devine's FOAM model (2010) in analysing HP programmes. James Wicken of WaterAid Australia presented Val Curtis’ key note paper drawn from Curtis' on-going research on hygiene motivation and its health impacts.
Lessons, case studies and key note presentrations have been compiled in a book jointly published by WaterAid, the International WaterCentre and IRC. This learning and sharing project on hygiene and hygiene promotion is financed and supported by AusAid.
The attached file outlines the key lessons learned and discussions arising on the participants' interaction with the FOAMS (2010) model.
Click here to access MONASH University's announcement on Sijbesma's lecture in Burnet (10 June 2010)
Hygiene Learning Event Key Messages.pdf (42.8 kB)
