Small Doable Actions
Summary:
- Accessible water, sanitation and good hygiene practices are essential for the treatment and well-being of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) and their careers, yet PLWHA often face stigma and isolation within their own communities, limiting their access to basic water and sanitary services. This session provided participants an introduction to the integration of WASH practices into HIV-care and vice versa. At the Inclusive WASH website you can access a recording of Lucina Schmich's (Burnett Institute) Webinar on why WASH matters for PLWHA and a programming approach to incorporating WASH into various HIV settings, as well as Julia Rosenbaum's (USAID WASHplus) Webinar, which reviews national programming guidance, identifies small doable actions to improve practice, and introduces an integration tool kit and other resources available for program staff.
Keywords:
Accessing Water Best Practices and Lessons Learned People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Programming Guidance Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Stigma Training Resources
Source:
- Water and Sanitation Program
Summary:
- Diarrhea remains one of the main threats to child health in the developing world, but washing hands with soap at critical times – after contact with feces and before handling food – could reduce diarrheal rates by up to 47 percent. Rates of handwashing with soap remain discouraging throughout the developing world, and large-scale promotion of handwashing behavior change is a challenge. Global Scaling Up Handwashing is a Water and Sanitation Program project focused on learning how to apply innovative promotional approaches to behavior change to generate widespread and sustained improvements in handwashing with soap, at scale, among women of reproductive age (ages 15-49), and primary school-aged children (ages 5-9). The project is being implemented by local and national governments, with technical support from WSP, in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam, and builds on national campaigns initiated by the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW). Please find a database of tippytap handwashing variations at the WSP website.
Keywords:
Handwashing (Hand Washing) Small Doable Actions
Source:
- Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation & C-Change/FHI 360. 2011.
Summary:
- Community health workers (CHWs) — the core of the community strategy
— are expected to mobilize and energize communities to take charge of their
own health. The approach used in this Training Guide harnesses capacity for
improving WASH practices by having CHWs negotiate small doable actions
that individuals and families can take to improve their behavior incrementally
while working toward an ideal practice. This approach is more likely to lead to sustained behavior change by ensuring that families identify feasible but effective actions that they can practice correctly and consistently, thereby improving the likelihood that the practice will be maintained over time. It also supports incremental change; once smaller successes are realized, families feel ready to take on bigger challenges.
Keywords:
Community-Based Care Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
Source:
- HIP. 2008. Washington, DC. United States Agency for International Development.
Summary:
- The toolkit was developed to provide people working in the HIV/AIDS field—especially USG PEPFAR Coordinators and USAID HIV field staff —with a set of flexible materials to raise their own understanding and help them facilitate better programming for WASH in PEPFAR Country Operational Plans. The aim is to help people at all levels to more effectively prevent diarrheal disease and other unnecessary illnesses, using simple, effective, low-input strategies that may have not been addressed by PEPFAR programs in the past. The emphasis of this programming guidance is to “mainstream” water, sanitation and hygiene interventions—to make them a regular part of all behavior change and education activities in HIV/AIDS programs.
Keywords:
Diarrheal Diseases Handwashing (Hand Washing) Household Water Treatment & Storage PEPFAR Programming Guidance Sanitation/Feces Disposal Small Doable Actions Training Resources
