Hygiene Promotion Programs: Planning and Program Design Issues in Bangladesh Suzanne Hanchett, Ph.D. Planning Alternatives for Change Portland, Oregon
Staff of governmental agencies continuing sanitation education: engineers, teachers, health workers (Banaripara, Barisal, Bangladesh)
A reactivated “village development committee” (Rangamati District, 2002)
Young housewife showing her low- cost pit latrine (Bangladesh, 2000)
Children’s Role Play: visit of hygiene promoter (VERC, 2002)
Improvised Ventilated Pit Latrine, designed by 18- year-old boy (VERC, Bangladesh)
Train Game: children with dirty fingernails get kicked off the “train” (VERC 2002)
Volunteer government officials implementing a coercive sanitation program (Patgram, Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh, 2000)
A latrine never used by the 10-person household that was forced to install it (Patgram, 2000)
Neglected but used: Latrine installed by City Corporation, Dhaka (2001). Cooking site was less than five feet from this latrine.
Caretakers of these well-built “sanitation blocks” cannot usually afford to use them (Dhaka, 2001)
Children in water near latrines (Narayanganj Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2001)
House parts in a cleared slum (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2001)
Good quality equipment abandoned in a cleared slum (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2001)
BRAC Health Workers, Gazipur District (2000): ARE NOT INVOLVED IN MICRO-CREDIT PROGRAMS
One of many new latrines, with soap (on right)
Hygiene promotion session in a Buddhist temple (Rangamati District, 2002)
“Bhulu,” the dead dog (VERC, 2002)
BEHAVIOR INFLUENCED BY : BEHAVIOR INFLUENCED BY : 1-Status concerns & social hierarchy 2-Deeply rooted social/economic practices; feelings, & beliefs 3-Program follow-up & consistency
Avoiding embarrassment, this man removed the hand pump from his well rather than re-paint the spout red (high arsenic content in water).
Pigs depend on human feces for food in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Mother & baby (1)
Mother & baby (2)
A woman with her tubewell repair tools (Barisal District, Bangladesh, 2000)
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