Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal

Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal

In December 2006, in response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up rural sanitation, to improv...

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Main Authors: Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra, Yusuf, Ahmad
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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WATER
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/14572657/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-scaling-up-handwashing-behavior-findings-impact-evaluation-baseline-survey-senegal
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spelling okr-10986-172902021-04-23T14:03:36Z Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra Yusuf, Ahmad WATER In December 2006, in response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up rural sanitation, to improve the health and welfare outcomes for millions of poor people. Local and national governments are implementing these projects with technical support from WSP. The goal of the Global Scaling up Handwashing Project (HWWS) is to reduce the risk of diarrhea and therefore increase household productivity by stimulating and sustaining the behavior of handwashing with soap at critical times for 5.4 million people in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project aims to test whether this handwashing behavior can be improved among the poor and vulnerable using innovative promotional approaches. In addition, it will undertake a structured learning and dissemination process to develop the evidence, practical knowledge, and tools needed to effectively replicate and scale up future handwashing programs. 2014-03-18T19:19:00Z 2014-03-18T19:19:00Z 2011-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/14572657/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-scaling-up-handwashing-behavior-findings-impact-evaluation-baseline-survey-senegal http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17290 English en_US Water and sanitation program technical paper CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Senegal
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Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
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description In December 2006, in response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up rural sanitation, to improve the health and welfare outcomes for millions of poor people. Local and national governments are implementing these projects with technical support from WSP. The goal of the Global Scaling up Handwashing Project (HWWS) is to reduce the risk of diarrhea and therefore increase household productivity by stimulating and sustaining the behavior of handwashing with soap at critical times for 5.4 million people in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project aims to test whether this handwashing behavior can be improved among the poor and vulnerable using innovative promotional approaches. In addition, it will undertake a structured learning and dissemination process to develop the evidence, practical knowledge, and tools needed to effectively replicate and scale up future handwashing programs.
format Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra
Yusuf, Ahmad
author_facet Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra
Yusuf, Ahmad
author_sort Orsola-Vidal, Alexandra
title Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
title_short Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
title_full Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
title_fullStr Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
title_full_unstemmed Scaling Up Handwashing Behavior : Findings from the Impact Evaluation Baseline Survey in Senegal
title_sort scaling up handwashing behavior : findings from the impact evaluation baseline survey in senegal
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/06/14572657/global-scaling-up-handwashing-project-scaling-up-handwashing-behavior-findings-impact-evaluation-baseline-survey-senegal
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