Explore Hygiene

These workshop materials contain the resources for the Community WASH Promotion workshop. The role of the Community WASH Promoter is essential for the successful implementation of any household water treatment, sanitation, or hygiene (WASH) project. Through this workshop, participants will gain a clear understanding of the best practices for supporting community members in changing their behaviours of WASH practices with the aim of achieving improved community livelihoods.

Learn About Chlorine

This toolkit contains all the materials necessary to facilitate a workshop with food processors from school kitchens. The objective of the session is to motivate participants to improve cleanliness habits in the kitchen.

Use these activities and games to facilitate group understanding of water, sanitation, and hygiene.

This poster set includes water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) posters to teach about good WASH practices, including household water treatment technologies.

Stop Microbes Poster Set

This collection of competency frameworks can be used by individuals and organizations in two main ways: Assess job performance and compare it against defined standards Identify potential areas for professional development to improve overall performance Competencies are the abilities required to perform specific tasks and express specific knowledge. CAWST’s competency frameworks use behavioural or task-based competencies in combination with knowledge components.

The Wash’Em process involves using 5 rapid assessment tools to understand handwashing behaviours during a crisis. You then enter the findings into the Wash’Em software for tailored program recommendations.

This collection contains the resources for both trainers and participants for the Latrine Design and Construction workshop. This five day workshop is designed for latrine project implementers and masons. In this workshop, participants will learn how to design and construct latrines for low-income communities not connected to a sewerage system. The focus is on designing latrines that are technically and environmentally appropriate, and that people will actually want and use.

This poster set includes instructional posters as well as tools for behavior change communication.

This workshop is intended to support people who facilitate WASH awareness workshops. It is based on the practical experience of the Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO) and the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST). It has been developed specifically for the context of Nepal. The lessons are for WASH promoters and work well for participants with low levels of literacy. Each lesson comes with the materials needed or instructions on how to build the necessary materials.

This workshop, 2 days training on Total Sanitation, is the first in a series targeting the community who has achieved the ODF situation. This training is the level after declaration of ODF. The workshop uses participatory methods to cover the Concept and Importance of Total Sanitation, Components of Total Sanitation, Water quality, Points of Use options, importance and safe use of latrine, household Sanitation, Hygiene, Key message on Total Sanitation, and Tips on communicating with groups.

This collection is for trainers who are interested in delivering training on Emergency WASH for volunteers in the context of Nepal. It was developed following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. It includes lesson plans, agendas, and guidance on training delivery.

This collection is intended to support people who facilitate WASH in School. It is based on the practical experience of the Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO) and the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST). It has been developed specifically for the context of Nepal.

This workshop is designed for those who are interested in delivering training on community health promotion. It includes lessons plans and guidance on training delivery.

This is an introductory level workshop that was co-developed with our partners in Afghanistan at DACAAR. This workshop is for those who are just starting to work in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene sector. It covers the basic of WASH which include topics of disease transmission, household water treatment, solid waste management, vector control, sanitation, hygiene, and behaviour change.

This collection contains the resources for both trainers and participants on menstrual hygiene management. These materials are designed for organizations introducing menstrual hygiene management.

This collection contains CAWST's materials on soap making. It includes a lesson plan and a fact sheet.

This poster set includes water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) posters to teach about good WASH practices, including some household water treatment technologies. This poster set was designed with images of the HydrAid, plastic biosand filter.

This manual is for trainers who are interested in delivering training on Community WASH Promotion. It includes lesson plans, agendas, forms, and guidance on training delivery.

This poster was created by the Haitian government using CAWST's images to educate people about how to prevent cholera.

Download this lesson plan and materials to facilitate a 3-hour session with food processors from school kitchens.

In this module you will learn how to use the lesson plan and materials to facilitate a 3-hour session with food processors from school kitchens.

This hands-on lesson challenges students to use simple materials and design a technology to address a water, sanitation or hygiene issue faced by people living in developing countries. In this lesson students assess their designs using real-world criteria to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of their solutions.

This hands-on lesson challenges students to use simple materials and design a technology to address a water, sanitation or hygiene issue faced by people living in developing countries. In this lesson students assess their designs using real-world criteria to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of their solutions.

Print this task schedule to organize and monitor the cleaning of school kitchens.

One of three stickers to be printed and used as reminders and nudges in school kitchens. This sticker is designed to be placed in critical places around the school kitchen reminding staff to wash their hands, "their health is in my hands".

One of three stickers that are printed and used as reminders and warnings in school kitchens. This sticker is to be affixed to a spray bottle. It contains the recipe for a chlorine cleaning solution.

One of three stickers to be printed and used as reminders and nudges in school kitchens. This sticker is to be placed on cleaning kits, it lists the items they should contain.

Use this poster to promote good hygiene practices in school kitchens.

Water can be contaminated in many ways (humans, animals).

For humanitarians that are not currently working in a crisis situation, this e-learning module provides three realistic contexts to practice with.

The Handwashing Demonstrations tool allows you to generate quick insights into how a person’s home and community environment impact their handwashing practices.

The Personal Histories tool is used to generate a broad understanding about the experiences of populations affected by crisis.

The Motives tool will help you to identify what is driving handwashing behaviour, or preventing it, in your context.

The Disease Perception tool helps you to understand people’s perceptions of the disease you are interested in.

This tool will help you identify channels of communication so that you can prioritize which ones are likely to be the most effective in reaching your population.

This module highlights the details you'll need to take care of before you leave for your community visit.

In this module, you'll learn how to navigate the Wash'Em website and use the Program Designer to generate program recommendations.

Hygiene promotion in emergencies has typically been done by distributing hygiene kits, or educating people about disease transmission. Evidence shows that these approaches alone are insufficient to change handwashing behavior. This learning module introduces you to the the Wash'Em process and the tools you will use to help you design innovative, context-specific hygiene programs.

The goal of this guidance document is to help organizations to work as safely as possible and minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. This is updated as of June 19, 2020.

This lesson plan contains instructions to facilitate a session where participants will learn how to safely prepare chlorine solutions for surfaces and hand disinfection. This was prepared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use these instructions to make a handwashing soap solution from laundry detergent, if soap or hand sanitizer (handrub) are not easily available. This was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Use this video to make a handwashing soap solution from laundry detergent, if soap or hand sanitizer (handrub) are not easily available. This was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document contains instructions and safety measures to prepare chlorine solutions with Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) as well as a Calculator (excel sheet) for different product concentrations. This was prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document contains instructions and safety measures to prepare chlorine solutions with Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) as well as a Calculator (excel sheet) for different product concentrations. This was prepared to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This PowerPoint includes practical recommendations on safety and security when doing community work adapted for different contexts. Este PowerPoint contiene una serie de recomendaciones de bioseguridad para la vuelta al trabajo en el contexto COVID-19 específicos y adaptados para Colombia.

This is a questionnaire to assess symptoms at a workplace and a temperature log to be used by every staff, volunteer, training participant, or other individual in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please, remember to adapt this form to the privacy policies applicable to your context. Also see the Health Screening Questionnaire.

This is a questionnaire to assess symptoms at a workplace and a temperature log to be used by every staff, volunteer, training participant, or other individual in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please, remember to adapt this form to the privacy policies applicable to your context. Also see the Temperature Log.

This spreadsheet is a calculator to prepare chlorine solutions using different product concentrations with Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) or Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine) for surface and hand disinfection. There are other documents including one on how to use Sodium Hypochlorite (bleach) or Calcium Hypochlorite (powder or granular chlorine). This document was prepared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This update is intended to share reliable information that CAWST has gathered, and answer some of the questions that we have been hearing from staff and clients about COVID-19. It is current as of April 14, 2020.

This PowerPoint includes practical recommendations on safety and security when doing community work adapted for different contexts. Este PowerPoint contiene una serie de recomendaciones de bioseguridad para la vuelta al trabajo en el contexto COVID-19 específicos y adaptados para Colombia.

This presentation (including speaker notes) is intended to share reliable information that CAWST has gathered, and answer some of the questions that we have been hearing from staff and clients about COVID-19. It is current as of April 8, 2020. See webinar recording here: https://resources.cawst.org/webinar_video/340bc425/covid-19-impact-and-response-strategies-webinar

A step-by-step guide on how to build a foot-pump handwashing station.

This is a guide on how to build, step by step a handwashing station powered by a foot pump. This handwashing station is made with widely available pieces and materials, and was designed by Steve Abbott http://designchoice.org.

This webinar is intended to share reliable information that CAWST has gathered, and answer some of the questions that we have been hearing from staff and clients about COVID-19. It is current as of April 8, 2020. See presentation here: https://resources.cawst.org/presentation/55e9f666/covid-19-impact-and-response-strategies

This competency framework can help you as a manager or supervisor to support Community WASH Promoters to be successful in their role. You can use this tool to: (1) Identify the level of competency that is expected from Community WASH Promoters for each competency group. (2) Help design the learning and development strategy to support the professional growth of Community WASH Promoters. (3) Provide new insights on how Community WASH Promoters can be used to achieve behaviour change in their target communities.

Get a latrine: Protect your community

Wash hands poster

Get a latrine: Keep your community clean poster

Get a latrine: Be a good neighbour

The focus of this lesson is to provide participants with critical information about hand washing and hygiene during and after emergencies to reduce the transmission of disease. Participants will explore issues of personal, food, and menstrual hygiene and identify strategies for maintaining good hygienic practices.

The focus of this lesson is to provide participants with critical information about hand washing and hygiene during emergencies to prevent the spread of disease.

In this lesson plan participant will be familiar with the critical times of hand washing, importance and characteristics of hand washing station. They will be aware on importance of personal, menstrual and food hygiene.

The focus of the introduction is to create a safe learning environment and outline orientation goals and expectations. During the introduction participants meet each other and learn about the agenda for the day.

The focus of this lesson is to highlight the roles and responsibilities of teachers, family, and friends in effective menstrual hygiene management.

The focus of this lesson is to share information about menstrual hygiene, the key components of menstrual hygiene management, and discuss on the good and bad behaviors practiced during menstruation.

The focus of this lesson is to discuss on the critical times of hand washing along with the importance of hand washing. Also the lesson plan focuses on discussion on sanitation multiple table for maintaining personal hygiene. While discussing on personal hygiene, menstrual hygiene management in school is also emphasized.

This is a lesson plan about closing the Community Health Promotion Nepal workshop.

This is an optional lesson plan on how to conduct daily openings in a workshop.

This is a lesson plan that distinguishes appropriate activities to engage different groups and explains how to effectively organize activities while working in the community.

This is a lesson plan that explains the importance of keeping records of WASH practices in households and how to keep good records.

This is a lesson plan that discusses why it is important for community health promoters to be able to influence people, describes the groups of community stakeholders and why you want to influence them, and explains effective ways to influence people.

This is a lesson plan to help CHPs create an action plan for WASH promotion activities in a community.

This is a lesson plan about prioritizing WASH issues in a household level according to what would be easiest for a household to change, recommending solutions to WASH issues in a household, demonstrating and discussing attitudes and good manners needed when working in a household, and discussing ways to support a household in making WASH changes.

This is a lesson plan that explains the importance of using information, education, and communication (IEC) materials in communicating WASH messages and why active participation in lessons helps people learn.

This is a lesson plan that explains how to open the Community Health Promotion Nepal workshop.

This is a lesson plan that explains the major barriers to behaviour change and how CHPs can help others overcome these barriers.

This is a lesson plan that explains what a CHP is and their roles and responsibilities.

This is an optional lesson plan for the Community Health Promotion Nepal workshop about how to review the concepts covered in Day 1.

This is an optional lesson plan for the Community Health Promotion Nepal workshop about how to review the concepts covered in Day 2.

This outline describes the content, objectives and audience for the Community WASH Promotion workshop.

Define the different types of hygiene, explore the importance of domestic hygiene and what needs to be considered in a hygienic household, the importance of personal hygiene and activities and the frequency of each activity to be done

The focus of this lesson is to highlight the connection between WASH and the spread of diseases. Participants will explore the different ways water-related diseases can be transmitted, and the different ways of preventing their transmission.

In this lesson, participants will be identifying how to identify WASH issues in a household or community. They will then discuss the importance of understanding the reasons and context of a household before attempting to influence behaviour change. Finally, participants will discuss ways to prioritize solving different WASH issues in a household.

In this lesson, participants study how to use chlorine to treat their drinking water. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using chlorine correctly, consistently, and continually.

Participants will explore how water gets contaminated by building a model of a watershed and discussing the impact of agriculture, industry, poor sanitation, and pollution on water quality. They will discuss how human activities are causes of water contamination.

Ideal agenda if participants only have time to cover the basics of a household visit, behaviour change, and the promotion of WASH practices.

Participants will discuss the challenges of a household building their own latrines. They will also learn about the main parts of a basic latrine and latrine siting.

In this lesson, participants examine the role of a Community WASH Promoter and the different individuals who could potentially play that role. They discuss how the role of a Community WASH Promoter is critical for the improved livelihood of communities.

In this lesson, participants will study how to use and maintain a ceramic pot filter. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using a ceramic pot filter correctly, consistently, and continually.

This is a pre-workshop questionnaire template to find out more about the participants in your Community WASH Promotion workshop.

In this lesson, participants apply the knowledge and skills they have learned during previous lessons to practice conducting a household visit. They will practice being adaptive to the needs of household members according to different possible scenarios they may face as a Community WASH Promoter.

In the workshop closing, participants review what they learned, evaluate the workshop, and receive a certificate. The final closing is an opportunity to consolidate participants’ learning, gather feedback and celebrate successes.

In this lesson, participants study how to use and maintain a [water treatment technology]. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using [water treatment technology] correctly, consistently, and continually

This lesson focuses on the use of SODIS to treat water. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using SODIS correctly, consistently, and continually.

In this lesson, participants will learn about who is hosting the workshop, what the workshop will cover, and how they will participate.

In this lesson, participants will further explore the importance of WASH by discussing several ways that individuals and households can benefit by adopting effective WASH behaviours.

This presentation is used to support the Building a Basic Latrine Lesson Plan (CWP). It covers latrine citing, parts and functions of a latrine.

This lesson focuses on the ways that insects and animals contribute to the spread of pathogens and diseases. Participants also discuss strategies to reduce diseases transmission.

In this lesson, participants will look at how to use and maintain a biosand filter. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using their filter correctly, consistently, and continually.

This participant list template is a tool that will help you keep a database of participant information for your Community WASH Promotion Workshop

This presentation template is used to support the Why WASH Matters - Lesson Plan (CWP). It will be used as an activity for the lesson. You will need to modify the template with statistics and information about the country in which you are delivering the workshop.

In this lesson, participants will create individual action plans. Action plans help participants set goals to become better Community WASH Promoters and constantly improve their effectiveness to create a bigger impact.

In this lesson, participants explore different barriers that prevent people from changing behaviour and adopting WASH practices. They will act out common situations through scenarios and will discuss the different reasons that people give for why they are not adopting certain WASH practices.

This lesson introduces the importance of managing waste. It covers an integrated solid waste management and the different stages where intervention activities can be effective, including reducing, reusing, recycling, composting, burning, and burying

In this lesson, participants will study how to use and maintain a ceramic candle filter. This lesson will also focus on how a Community WASH Promoter can verify that a household is using their filter correctly, consistently, and continually.

Participants will explore how to evaluate why different sanitation practices are better than others. They will also discuss the advantages and challenges of improving sanitation options

This lesson will focus on how food is contaminated. Participants will also explore ways to prevent people from getting sick from eating contaminated food.

The focus of this lesson is to provide participants with crucial information about handwashing and hygiene to prevent the spread of disease with an optional section on how to construct a low-cost handwashing station.

This lesson introduces participants to latrine cleanliness, maintenance activities, and the frequency in which they should occur.

This is a workshop report template that will guide you in writing a professional report of your Community WASH Promotion workshop.

This lesson focuses on the purpose of household visits in the realm of behaviour change. Participants will discuss respectful and collaborative approaches when working with households, as well as general steps to take during a household visit.

Balanced agenda that includes behaviour change, technical WASH knowledge, and principles of conducting a household visit. It gives the option of choosing from a variety of elective topics.

In this lesson, participants explore how households can use the multi-barrier approach to ensure they are drinking safe water. The lesson will cover source protection, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, and safe storage

Intensive agenda that includes behaviour change, technical WASH knowledge, all hygiene topics for the WASH for Healthy Homes criteria, and the principles of conducting a household visit.

This lesson uses a role-play activity to introduce the challenges that many women and girls have in managing their menstrual hygiene, and the impacts on their health and education. Participants will identify solutions to meet the menstrual hygiene needs of women and girls at home and in school.

In this lesson, participants will cover the 3rd principle of a household visit: Influencing Behaviour Change. They will discuss strategies that a Community WASH Promoter can use to try to influence someone to adopt good WASH behaviours.

In this lesson, participants will discuss the importance of having good WASH practices in reducing the spread of water-related diseases and breaking the poverty cycle. The lesson will also highlight relevant global and national goals related to WASH.

In this lesson, participants will discuss the importance of using forms to collect information from household members to influence change. They will also review how to use monitoring forms effectively.

This is a template for displaying the final results of your participant evaluations for your Community WASH Promotion workshop.

This is the final evaluation template for participants to provide feedback after a Community WASH Promotion workshop.

CAWST uses the Kirkpatrick framework in workshop design. Based on this, we created a Theory of Change for the Community WASH Promotion workshop as well as tools to evaluate the workshop’s effectiveness. This document presents tools to evaluate the effectiveness of your training workshop. It includes questionnaires and observation sheets.

This document includes the sanitation ladder activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The sanitation ladder activity is a participatory tool to help people to identify options for improving sanitation in their community and realize that this can be a gradual process.

This lesson focuses on keeping water safe from re-contamination. It covers safe storage, as well as safe handling of clean water.

These are the instructions for the WASH Detective activity.

This tool helps people practice identifying WASH issues in a household. It also helps people learn how to find out more information on why the WASH issues exist in a household. It is designed for the Community WASH Promotion workshop; however, it can be used for any audience

A video recording of the webinar on September 20, 2016 on Menstrual Hygiene Management Rural Cambodian Girls Experiences. "I feel scared of being stain[ed]": Understanding Rural Cambodian Girls' Experiences of Menstrual Hygiene Management and Finding Meaningful Interventions from their Stories.

There are things we can do to protect ourselves from the microbes (handwashing, waste disposal, washing, cleaning, covering food)

Washing our hands well and often will prevent illness (after defecation, before eating, after cleaning a baby).

There are ways to protect water from contamination (watershed and water source protection, protected well, proper rainwater storage, good wastewater disposal).

Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Presentation Cover

Describes the critical times for handwashing, the proper method for handwashing and its importance, as well as discusses how to promote handwashing and handwashing hardware.

This presentation is designed to support Lesson Plan 21 in the Latrine Design and Construction Trainer Manual.

This technical brief describes the variety of sanitary products available, WASH as it relates to menstrual hygiene, cultural and religious restrictions related to menstrual hygiene and the impact it has on health and education.

This lesson plan teaches how to make lye based soap. It includes several recipes and step-by-step instructions.

This fact sheet describes the history of soap, what is soap, how it's made and the two processes for making soap.

This document includes the three pile sorting activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The three pile sorting activity is a participatory tool to help a group of people discuss common water, sanitation and hygiene practices and beliefs.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the transmission routes activity with a group of people.

This document includes the animal excreta transmission routes activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The animal excreta transmission routes activity is a participatory tool to educate people about how feces from animals can make us sick. The tool also helps a group of people to identify how to stop the transmission of diseases related to animal excreta.

This document includes the transmission routes activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The transmission routes activity is a participatory tool to educate people about how feces can make us sick. The tool also helps a group of people to identify how to stop the transmission of water-related diseases.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the animal excreta transmission routes activity with a group of people.

This is a template of how to display the results of your final evaluations

This questionnaire is to be handed out at the end of the workshop to give the trainer constructive feedback on the workshop

Good water is important for many uses in our life (drinking, cooking, washing dishes, growing plants/crops, laundry, bathing).

You can have good water if you from protect the water source, treat your water and store your treated water safely.

This questionnaire helps the trainer to understand their audience and their level of knowledge pre-workshop

This presentation describes local and global water issues and how they perpetuate the poverty cycle (Designed for Lesson Plan 2 in the CHP for Trainers Trainer Manual)

This presentation describes HWTS options and their pros and cons

This presentation describes how to raise awareness (Designed for Lesson Plan 10 of the CHP for Trainers Trainer Manual)

This poster presentation can be used as a participatory learning tool by Community Health Promoters (CHP) in a variety of situations to: • Teach about safe water, hygiene and sanitation practices in general; • Introduce new household water treatment technologies; • Train people how to operate and maintain their household water treatment technology; and • Reinforce messages about household water treatment, hygiene and sanitation on a return visit to a household.

This presentation describes local and global water and sanitation issues in Afghanistan (Designed for Lesson Plan 1 of the CHP for Trainers Training Manual)

This manual is for trainers who are interested in delivering training on community health promotion for trainers. It includes lessons plans and guidance on training delivery.

This workshop outline contains a workshop description, objectives, audience, content and training materials needed for this workshop

This presentation describes to recruit CHP and run a training program (Designed for Lesson Plan 16 in the CHP for Trainers Trainer Manual)

This presentation describes what is necessary for behaviour change (Designed for Lesson Plan 8 of the CHP for Trainers Trainer Manual)

This manual is for project implementers who are interested in starting or strengthening their community health promotion activities for water, sanitation, and hygiene projects.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the three pile sorting activity with a group of people.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the sanitation ladder activity with a group of people.

There are water, sanitation and hygiene practices that will protect your family.