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Hygiene and sanitation strategies in Uganda: how to achieve sustainable behaviour change?
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Anthony WaterkeynBreaking the faecal:oral disease transmission route is a vital first step towards overcoming preventable disease and, ultimately,
poverty. Simple knowledge transfer, whatever methodology is employed, does not automatically result in changed
or improved behaviour. There is growing consensus that to achieve behaviour change in hygiene and sanitation practices
communities, both rural and high-density peri-urban, need to be supported in ways that will stimulate social cohesion
and result in group decisions being taken. Such cohesion and the building of social capital can ensure that peer pressure
comes to bear and poor hygiene practices can thus be challenged. This paper considers several approaches to Hygiene
Promotion and Sanitation that are currently receiving attention. It attempts to tease out some of the common threads that
appear to be stimulating social cohesion and peer pressure towards achieving behaviour change that will be sustained
and also considers the current hopeful situation in Uganda.
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WATERKEYN, A., 2005. Hygiene and sanitation strategies in Uganda: how to achieve sustainable behaviour change? IN: Kayaga, S. (ed). Maximising the benefits from water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 31st WEDC International Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 31 October-4 November 2005, pp. 88-91.Publisher
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