Selling soap and latrines in Madagascar and Djibouti: results of marketing surveys

Action Contre la Faim is implementing a social marketing project in Madagascar and Djibouti. The project aims to facilitate the construction of latrines and hand washing devices with soap without the use of subsidies. This paper outlines the social marketing process used in the project and provides detail on implementation and results of its early stages. The results include information on the barriers, motivations, drivers and requested features for latrines and hand washing devices. It then summarises how these are being developed into marketable products. The paper concludes with the current lessons learnt from the project and the main recommendations

Designing evidence-based and context-specific hygiene programs in emergencies: could there be an app for that?

When a humanitarian crisis occurs the disease risk associated with faecal-oral pathogens substantially increases. Encouraging crisis-affected populations to wash their hands with soap has therefore been a cornerstone of humanitarian response for decades. Recent literature reviews have highlighted that current approaches to hygiene programming are dated and insufficient to realise actual behaviour change. This research explored the factors that determine hygiene behaviour in emergencies and the barriers that prevent humanitarian actors from improving hygiene program design. This was done by conducting qualitative research in Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo and interviews with global and national humanitarian agencies. Humanitarian actors felt that hygiene behaviour change was the remit of experts and that current guides are overly generic and hard to adapt and apply. The findings from this research are being used to develop a software-based tool to aid practitioners in designing rapid, evidence-based and context-specific programs in emergencies

The impact of professionalizing decentralized water points management

This record includes an extended abstract and MP4 presentation. Presented at the 42nd WEDC International Conference

Assessing the impact of connecting vulnerable households to piped water supply two years after the project

This record includes an extended abstract and MP4 presentation. Presented at the 42nd WEDC International Conference

Baby Wash approach study: Yobe state, Nigeria

This record includes an extended abstract and MP4 presentation. Presented at the 42nd WEDC International Conference

Establishing a groundwater management strategy for North-East Nigeria

This record includes an extended abstract and MP4 presentation. Presented at the 42nd WEDC International Conference