Reference Guide -- Guía Comunitaria para el Mejoramiento del Agua y la Higiene Familiar

This reference manual is intended to be used by outreach workers when working with community members to help them implement behavior change related to water treatment/storage/handling, hand washing and feces disposal in order to reduce diarrhea. This reference manual is divided into five chapters addressing the following topics:

(1) Questions and Answers: This section provides basic information on diarrhea, water treatment (chlorination, boiling, SODIS), hand washing, and feces disposal.

(2) Activities: This chapter provides detailed instructions for how to carry out interactive activities with community members on the contamination cycle, water treatment (chlorination, boiling and SODIS), hand washing and feces disposal. Each activity has step-by-step instructions and supporting materials needed to meet activity objectives.

(3) Diagnostic Tool and Data Tracking Instruments: This section describes how to use a tool (“Diagnostico: Agua en Nuestra Casa”) to determine current water treatment/storage/handling/use behaviors in a household and to negotiate improved behaviors. This chapter also describes how to use three additional tools to monitor behavior changes at the household and community level and to provide feedback to the community members on their progress.

(4)Tool Box: This chapter provides information on (a) how to manage/lead a group during a training or group activity, (b) Improve interpersonal communication skills, and (c) negotiate adoption of improved behaviors.

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