Prevention of Diarrhea through Improving Hygiene Behaviors. The Sanitation and Family Education (SAFE) Pilot Project Experience.

摘要

CARE Bangladesh, with technical assistance from ICDDR,B, developed and implemented the Sanitation and Family Education (SAFE) project as a follow on activity to CARE's Water and Sanitation/Hygiene (WASH/CARE) project. The WASH/CARE project was a cyclone relief project, implemented in the coastal belt of Chittagong following a devastating cyclone in April 1991. The objectives of the WASH/CARE project were primarily hardware rehabilitation and installation, including repair of damaged tubewell platforms, provision of tubewells, and latrine construction. SAFE is a pilot covering about 9,100 households and is focused on the 'software' aspects of water, sanitation, and hygiene. The objectives of the SAFE project are to develop effective and replicable hygiene education strategies to promote behavior change, to develop and assess different models for health and hygiene education outreach, and to design and implement a behavior-based monitoring system for the' hygiene education program.