Sharing experiences: Effective hygiene promotion in South-East Asia and the Pacific
Updated - Thursday 11 November 2010
This new, free publication was launched on Global Handwashing Day, Friday 15 October 2010. The book aims to boost hygiene promotion efforts. It contains 11 case studies from different countries and two keynote papers from international experts, all written to help people to design programmes for the effective promotion of good hygiene practices.
The book can be downloaded for free at: Water Aid Australia or International WaterCentre
The 11 case studies below are a selection of good practices that represents a growing amount of evidence from the regions highlighting their strengths and weaknesses and offering a number of conclusions for hygiene promotion in South-East Asia.
Download individual Case Studies at the WaterAid Australia site
- Volunteering for water, sanitation and hygiene behaviour improvements
- Stories from rural hygiene promoters in Vanuatu: PHAST, tippy taps and working with men and women
- Hygiene Improvement Project: Why WASH matters
- Jakarta’s impoverished kids lesson series: 10 take-home hygiene messages
- Tugeda Uime Waka for Helti Komuniti (together we work for healthy communities)
- Real involvement, real participation
- Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap in Indonesia
- The development of an entertainment education program to promote handwashing with soap among primary school children in Vietnam
- Global Handwashing Day and beyond
- A strong foundation: Revising Cambodia’s National School Health Curriculum to prevent and control intestinal worms
- Student-led hygiene promotion and empowerment in rural schools in the Western Pacific (a photo story)
The book is a collaboration between:
· WaterAid: http://www.wateraid.org/australia/
· International WaterCentre http://www.watercentre.org/
· IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre http://www.irc.nl/
· and the contributing authors with financial support from AusAID, the Australian Government’s overseas aid program (http://www.ausaid.gov.au).
Related pages
- Volunteering for water, sanitation and hygiene behaviour improvements
- Stories from rural hygiene promoters in Vanuatu: PHAST, tippy taps and working with men and women
- Hygiene Improvement Project: Why WASH matters
- Jakarta’s impoverished kids lesson series: 10 take-home hygiene messages
- Tugeda Uime Waka for Helti Komuniti (together we work for healthy communities)
- Real involvement, real participation
- Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap in Indonesia
- The development of an entertainment education program to promote handwashing with soap among primary school children in Vietnam
- Global Handwashing Day and beyond
- A strong foundation: Revising Cambodia’s National School Health Curriculum to prevent and control intestinal worms
- Student-led hygiene promotion and empowerment in rural schools in the Western Pacific (a photo story)
