Promoting Sanitation and Hygiene to Rural Households: lessons from the Southern Nations regions of Ethiopia
- Resumen
- Despite low levels of sanitation services and poor hygiene in Africa,it has proved difficult to place Sanitation and Hygiene (S&H) appropriately on policy agendas. <br/> Initially brought to international attention by the WaterandSanitation Programme-WSP, the post-2003 S&H policy of the government of the Southern Nations region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia has now been studied by a DFID-funded research and learning project, the ¿RiPPLE¿ Programme, to look at how success was achieved-and how far. <br/> Latrine construction and use, hand-washing and water storage/handling by households were surveyed, by quantitative and qualitative methods, in six localities in two districts. The project also studied the policy-making and institutional process. <br/> In both districts, the results show a substantial increase in the number of household latrines, achieved in a few years. Some questions do arise as to the technical sustainability of this wave of latrine construction and observations suggest continued poor hand washing and water storage/handling practices. <br/> A combination of political promotion and institutional mobilisation was successful in launching and ¿rolling-out¿ the S&H policy as a ¿movement¿. S&H was made part of a basic community health package, designed to be politically attractive, and financially and administratively feasible. ¿Ignition¿ documents were written with a strong communication orientation to motivate local politicians and civil servants,along side more conventional(technical) documentation. <br/> This experience offers, potentially, lessons for other countries in how political and institutional hindrances to promoting S&H strategies may be overcome and hygiene behaviour placed more ¿centre-stage¿.
- Autor
- Newborne, Peter; Smet, Jo
- Palabras Clave
- Etiopía, Sanidad, Servicios de saneamiento, Política, Limpieza de ciudades
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