Hygiene Improvement Project

The Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is a USAID-funded program that works at scale to improve and sustain hygiene practices.


FileProgramming Guidance for Integrating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvement into HIV/AIDS Programs to Reduce Diarrhea Morbidity May 2008

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)

FileOpportunities for Sanitation Marketing in Uganda

In October 2007, a team of consultants from the Hygiene Improvement Project visited Uganda to determine if sanitation marketing would be a viable approach in Uganda, and to make specific recommendations to HIP and the donor community that would move the sanitation marketing agenda forward. This report presents the key findings and recommendations stemming from the trip.
The overarching conclusion is that sanitation marketing is both a viable and needed approach to increase sanitation uptake among rural households in Uganda. The team based its assessment on an analysis of the policy environment, formative research, and local-level conditions concerning Uganda’s rural household sanitation sector.

Opportunities for Sanitation Marketing in Uganda 2007 final.pdf  (962 kB)

FileJuly 2008 HIp-LIGHTS

This month, HIP trained Ministry of Health and Family Planning personnel in Madagascar to carry out training for health center staff in a big push to create 100 WASH-friendly health centers. In Peru, the Sanitation Initiative is completing a catalogue of sanitation technologies designed to provide potential consumers with the information required to make an informed sanitation infrastructure choice. Trials of Improved Practices research is under way to test the feasibility of small doable actions at the household level that will form the core of HIV/hygiene improvement interventions in Ethiopia and Uganda.

July 2008 HipLights.pdf  (190 kB)

FolderPrograms

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.

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HIP is developing resources for hygiene improvement at scale that include tools, guidelines, good practices, presentations and research results.

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Learn about hygiene behavior change and capacity development. Exchange knowledge. Strengthen your capacity to create hygiene programs.

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FolderAbout HIP

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.

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