Handwashing with Soap -- Two Paths to National-Scale Programs Lessons from the Field: Vietnam and Indonesia

Abstract

This paper describes two Southeast Asian programs that are making handwashing a feature of everyday lives on a national scale. The program in Vietnam has concentrated on first gaining an understanding on how people actually behave and then determing how to change that behavior, while the program in Indonesia leverages the reach of the private sector and other partners to scale up handwashing initiatives previously researched and already underway