This brief highlights the approach, accomplishments, and challenges of the Nepal Hygiene Improvement Project, which promoted better hygiene practices, including safe treatment and storage of drinking water and handwashing with soap, in four pilot districts in Nepal. The project was supported by the USAID Hygiene Improvement Project from 2006-2008 in collaboration with UNICEF and the Nepal Department of Water Supply and Sewerage.

Nepal Country Brief - Promoting Household Water Treatment and Hygiene - June 2009.pdf  (236.8 kB)

A presentation on HIP's support for a joint USAID/HIP-UNICEF point-of-use drinking water treatment pilot program in Nepal, made by HIP's country coordinator, Arinita Maskey Shretsha, during a visit to HIP headquarters in Washington DC, April 24, 2007.

Nepal Overview HIP-UNICEF 4-24-07.pdf  (1.5 MB)

Summarizes formative research trials of four point-of-use treatment methods--boiling, solar disinfection, colloidal silver filters, and chlorination--conducted among mothers in four districts in Nepal to access consumer preferences toward each of these methods.

HIP Research Brief_06.pdf  (1.6 MB)

Full report of HIP's formative research in Nepal to assess consumer preferences toward four point-of-use methods.

NEPAL Product Trial Final Report 2006.pdf  (356.7 kB)

Describes the research tool used by HIP to understand consumer preferences toward point-of-use water treatment methods in Nepal. May 2006.

Nepal Consumer Perceptions Study Research Tool May 2006.pdf  (235.1 kB)

Nepal Consumer Perceptions Study Research Tool Annex May 2006.pdf  (475.1 kB)

Guideline based on operations research conducted by ENPHO/SOLUTIONS team under the USAID/HIP-UNICEF POU drinking water project in 12 schools of Dang and Kapilvastu district in Nepal. 2008.

Nepal School POU Guidelines.pdf  (1.3 MB)

This children's book, developed by HIP Nepal partners UNICEF and ENPHO, provides information on the importance of safe drinking water for good health.

Revised Child Book fnl.pdf  (2.9 MB)

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