Hygiene

Hygiene programming includes specific messaging and information sharing, in addition to considering who is targeted and how beneficiaries are equipped and engaged. Example hygiene projects include: handwashing promotion, menstrual health management (MHM), media messaging strategies, general promotion or sensitization, community health worker activities, and non-food item distributions, like hygiene kits or soap distributions.
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UNICEF Cholera Toolkit

The UNICEF Cholera Toolkit provides UNICEF staff and partners with practical resources to implement  an integrated approach to cholera prevention, preparedness and response.  It addresses water, hygiene and sanitation, health and communication for development (

Publication year: 2013    Reporting Agency: UNICEF    Author(s): UNICEF

Ebola Outbreak, Sierra Leone: Communication: Challenges and good practices

After the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, in June 2014, early messages about the high mortality rate of Ebola were met with fear and denial by many communities (BBC,  14/06/2015).

Publication year: 2015    Reporting Agency: ACAPS    Author(s): ACAPS

Guide to Community Engagement in WASH: A practitioner's guide based on lessons from Ebola

This guide is a compilation of best practices and key lessons learned through Oxfam's experience of community engagement in the 2014-15 Ebola responses in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Publication year: 2016    Reporting Agency: Oxfam    Author(s): Niederberger_E., Ferron_S., O'Reilly_M.

Hygiene promotion in emergencies: A fortuitous comparison The case of Bentiu IDP Camps, Unity state, South Sudan

In this paper, we argue for including a full hygiene promotion intervention as an early part of emergency response.

Publication year: 2014    Reporting Agency: Concern Worldwide    Author(s): Flachenberg_F.