Handwashing with Soap Toolkit

Published by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this toolkit is intended for public health and other development practitioners working in water, sanitation, and hygiene who want to use behaviour change strategies to promote handwashing with soap. The toolkit is based on experiences and lessons learned from the Global Scaling Up Handwashing project, a handwashing behaviour change project implemented in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam by local and national governments with technical support from WSP.
The toolkit is organised into four modules:
Module 1: Behaviour Change - describes the theory of change used in the four country projects to target behavioural determinants of handwashing. This module also gives a detailed description of each country project together with a list of downloadable communication materials used in that country, such as training manuals, flyers, radio spots and programmes, and posters.
Module 2: Sustainability - focuses on how the different country projects helped create an enabling environment, which increases the likelihood that handwashing with soap interventions are sustained in each country after the project ends. The enabling environment includes, for example, clarifying institutional arrangements and the roles and responsibilities of different actors and teams in promoting hygiene.
Module 3: Integration - explores how the projects undertook a systematic, results-oriented approach to integrating handwashing behaviour change interventions with existing programmes and services.
Module 4: Results - contains resources and publications resulting from the monitoring and evaluation efforts that contributed to the learning objectives of the Global Scaling Up Handwashing project.
Within each module, the toolkit offers explanations of key terms, tips for implementation, as well as research briefs, working papers, and impact evaluations for each country.