Behaviour change interventions for strengthening handwashing with soap in Indonesia

Highlights

UNICEF Indonesia has developed a hygiene behaviour change training guide as part of capacity strengthening efforts to improve Handwashing with Soap (HWWS) practices in Indonesia. Based on evidence generated from a formative research, the training guide contains a set of systematic interventions to promote and sustain HWWS practices in communities, schools and in health care facilities. The training content provides front-line government and development staff including environment health officers, hygiene promoters, teachers and WASH practitioners a theoretical and practical understanding of the linkages between hygiene and health outcomes, the role of behaviour change interventions in triggering emotional responses to improve HWWS behaviour, and techniques to apply behaviour change interventions to strengthen HWWS practices in targeted settings.