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Healthy islands concept in Papua New Guinea
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:11 authored by Sonia Yeung, Jeanette SelepWorld Vision has adopted the Healthy Island Concept (HIC), a participatory community engagement,
planning, and monitoring approach unique to the Pacific Islands. After more than one year of
implementation, significant positive results can be seen, including communities succeeding in instigating
hygiene behaviour change and adapting their lifestyle to achieve better health outcomes. Through
community-embedded HIC Facilitators, communities formulate their collective vision of a “healthy
community” and monitor the implementation of community plans. So far, successes include a high level
of community ownership, participation and accountability as well as significant progress on activity
implementation addressing hygiene and broader health issues in the target communities.
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YEUNG, S. and SELEP, J., 2016. Healthy islands concept in Papua New Guinea. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all: Proceedings of the 39th WEDC International Conference, Kumasi, Ghana, 11-15 July 2016, Briefing paper 2527, 5pp.Publisher
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