Hygiene Promotion
This project aims to ensure that more families are practicing good hygiene, protecting their drinking water, and using hygienic toilets at all times. It complements other interventions supported by UNICEF under the Health and Nutrition Programme by working closely with communities from rural and peri-urban areas to improve hygiene, sanitation and drinking water handling practices. This project benefits from a UNICEF-led national effort involving relevant government and non-government (national and international) agencies that are developing a comprehensive multi-media and multi-level water and sanitation communication strategy for sustained behaviour change. The implementation involves a balanced mix of mass media, community contacts, traditional/folk media and inter-personal communication delivered through NGO motivators/field/extension workers, female and male multipurpose health workers schoolteachers and students, members of youth groups and others. The project will identify and develop appropriate institutions as resource centres for hygiene and sanitation promotion, with expertise to train community social/health workers, conduct participatory assessments and assist in the design and delivery of hygiene education. To enable interested households to construct their toilets, the project assists selected youth groups/CBOs in setting up private production and marketing centres for making/stocking toilet components and construction materials for the various design options the project will seek to promote. Where necessary and appropriate, the project will also support the setting up of production centres through NGO networks. The following activities are or will be implemented: • Support development of a national integrated social marketing and multi-media and multi-level communication strategy (IMC/COMBI) for sustained sanitation and hygiene behaviour change;
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