Hygiene Improvement Project
The Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is a USAID-funded program that works at scale to improve and sustain hygiene practices.
The Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is a USAID-funded program that works at scale to improve and sustain hygiene practices.
HIP will present a series of webinars this year to highlight project experience and resources. If you missed our first 2 webinars (January 28 on Using the WASH Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease, and March 2 on Access and Behavioral Outcome Indicators for WASH), you can listen to recordings of the presentations at: http://www.hip.watsan.net/page/4105. Our next webinar will be on the topic of Integrating WASH in HIV/AIDS Programming. Details and registration information coming soon.
HIP developed this publication for USAID and other organizations to measure progress for hand washing, POU, and sanitation activities and provide guidance to implementers of WASH programs on what indicators to use to measure their programs’ achievements. February 2010.
Access and Behavioral Outcome Indicators for WASH.pdf (700 kB)
The "Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease," provides information for organizations worldwide that seek to add WASH activities to their current programs or to start a diarrhea reduction program. It is intended to support the training of local outreach workers and their work in communities to promote improved WASH practices to reduce diarrhea. The Training Package consists of three separate parts: (1) a step-by-step "Guide for Training Outreach Workers," (2) an "Outreach Worker’s Handbook" for community outreach workers to use during and after training, and (3) a "Collection of Resource Materials" to use as a source for visual aids.
--To request a free copy of the WASH Training Package on CD, please send an email to hip@aed.org
In January HIP hosted the first in a series of webinars to highlight new products and resources; the product highlighted this month was the recently released “Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease.” HIP and AED also hosted the annual Global Handwashing Day coordination meeting to review the highlights and lessons learned from 2009 and plan for the 2010 event. And the project has hired a program manager to oversee HIP’s newest activity, the HIV-WASH Integration Program in Kenya.
January 2010 HIp-Lights.pdf (231 kB)
Recently updated, this compendium of resources is intended for organizations or individuals planning or carrying out school-based education projects, pre or in-service teacher training, and programs aimed at orphans and vulnerable children. Its activities are focused on the primary school level, but of course hygiene and sanitation improvement is important at the secondary level as well. Its focus is more on in-classroom and extracurricular activities and less on infrastructure, although there are some references with guidance on this.
Integrating WASH in Schools Compendium Revised June 2009.pdf (344 kB)
This expanded version of an earlier paper on integrating hygiene improvement into HIV/AIDS programming includes concrete guidance for implementers of HIV/AIDS care and support activities.
HIP_AEDcx.pdf (468 kB)
HIP is developing publications and resources for hygiene improvement at scale that include tools, guidelines, good practices, presentations and research results.
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HIP, a 5-year USAID- funded project plans to bring about sustainable, at-scale improvements of three key hygiene practices in at least 5 countries and through selected, strategic activities.
Working at scale, HIP seeks to improve key hygiene practices by engaging multiple stakeholders, at different levels, using multiple interventions and focusing on all components of the hygiene improvement framework.