Tools

HIP is designing and using a range of tools to assist program managers develop sustainable hygiene improvement programs at scale. These include formative research tools, behavior change tools, guidelines for working at scale, and many others.

Ethiopia Tools

Madagascar Tools

Illustrated water, sanitation, and hygiene tools prepared for household and community education in Madagascar. Topics cover safe water treatment and storage, hand washing, and latrine use. Most of which are written in French and Malagasy.

Nepal Tools

Peru Tools

Uganda Tools

Illustrated tools prepared for home-based care workers to educate people living with HIV/AIDS about important hygiene behaviors in Uganda. Includes a WASH assessment card, materials on feces management and disposal for bed-bound clients, and proper storage of drinking water.

Participatory management assessment

Participatory Managements Tools focus on the development and use of various assessment methods for the effective and efficient planning of new services and for the monitoring of existing ones, at both community and district levels. In many cases this can be done in combination with computer management tools. Based on the success of the Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA), a new flexible system called Qualitative Information System (QIS) has been developed that enables quantification of people's perceptions of project progress and processes, while Action Monitoring for Effectiveness (aMe) can help to make short term improvements in project effectiveness at the lowest appropriate level.

Actions for water & sanitation policy development

To measure progress in achieving scale in different country programs, HIP is developing a hygiene improvement effort index, which follows the Hygiene Improvement Framework. Within the enabling environment component is the extent to which appropriate water and sanitation policies are in place that favor hygiene improvement. Considerable work to date has defined aspects of policy required in the context of a given country. HIP has synthesized a list of policy actions that must be considered when determining whether effective human consumption water and sanitation policies are in place.