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La 9e Journée Mondiale du Lavage des Mains a été commémorée en différé le 18 octobre dernier à Bilanga dans la province de la Gnagna dans la région Est du Burkina Faso. Read more...
Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Celebrated annually on October 15, Global Handwashing Day was... Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
Handwashing with soap is still the most effective way to reduce the spread of diarrheal infections. Today on Global handwashing day, hygiene and sanitation expert Alana Potter talks about key messages from IRC's experience how to make hygiene promotion work. Read more...
1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
La Côte d'Ivoire s'engage à promouvoir l'auto-initiation de sa population au lavage des mains au savon grâce au dispositif HANDINET Visiodev. Le dispositif a été présenté lors du « Tool fair » du WASH sustainability Forum 2014 (Amsterdam, 30 juin - 1 juillet 2014). Read more...
A unique handwashing campaign jointly funded by SHARE (source) and the Wellcome Trust has shown for the first time that using emotional motivators – such as feelings of disgust and nurture – rather than health messages, can result in significant, long-lasting improvements in people's handwashing... Read more...
Toilets, trash and social status: the top 10 emergency hygiene challenges Read more...
The results of a three-country hygiene cost effectiveness study make interesting reading. Read more...
Handwashing Promotion: Monitoring and Evaluation Module, 2013. UNICEF. Full text, pdf Prepared by Jelena Vujcic, MPH and Pavani K. Ram, MD, University at Buffalo. This guide will walk you through planning and implementing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for your handwashing Read more...
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar promotes hygiene and sanitation as South Asia UNICEF Ambassador. Read more...
If the system isn't hygienically used and operated, people's lives and health will not be improved. Read more...
Eight African countries are creatively achieving the goals of community led total sanitation programmes (CLTS) including one idea in Malawi where handwashing is monitored according to the health of tree seedlings planted beneath water outlets. Read more...
An investment of US$ 5 per person per year (the implementers’ cost only, not households or district) in Mozambique saw improvements in latrine use, handwashing and drinking water management Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh released a handwashing promotion video on 5 May 2013 to coincide with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual global campaign to promote better hand hygiene in health care. Read more...
Two presentations about monitoring handwashing behaviour change. Read more...
Ce document de travail présente les résultats de l’application de la méthodologie d’évaluation du rapport coûts/efficacité d’une intervention d’hygiène sur deux sites au Burkina Faso : Ladiana et Ouahabou. L’intervention ciblée ici porte sur une combinaison d’ateliers villageois et de visites à... Read more...
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more... Read more...