Hygiene Promotion - IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

• Hygiene Improvement Framework (PDF file - 419KB)(http://www.ehproject.org/pubs/globalhealth/hif-bw.pdf)The Environmental Health Project (EHP) has developed the Hygiene ImprovementFramework (HIF) as an integrated approach to prevent diarrhoeal disease. This frameworkhas three components: access to hardware, hygiene promotion, and an enabling policyand institutional environment.HIF E-Conference ConclusionsThe Hygiene Improvement Framework is a useful conceptual model for planning andimplementing WS&S projects. The three components, access to hardware, hygienepromotion, and enabling environment, are all appropriate.Health and hygiene efforts can have positive results even when not accompanied byhardware interventions in sanitation and water provision. However, an integratedprogramme with all three components is the ideal.Figure 2. The Hygiene Improvement FrameworkThe focus of hygiene promotion should be on changing key behaviours. These includehandwashing after defecation and before handling food, use of latrines, and keeping waterfree from faecal contamination. A guide to Improving health through behavior change hasnow been developed based on work done especially in Latin Americahttp://www.ehproject.org/PDF/Joint_Publications/JP007-CIMCIProcessGuideWeb.pdfIRC International Water and Sanitation Centre 13