Hygiene education

Interventions include- Hygienic promotion to encourage specific behaviours regarding the safe disposal of faeces, hand-washing after defecation and before preparing food and eating, use of clean drinking-water, menstrual hygiene management etc. Information, education and communication (IEC) (e.g. social marketing), traditionally implemented in a top-down manner. - Behaviour change communication (BCC) including approaches to ‘trigger’ communities (e.g. community-led total sanitation, CLTS) and other bottom-up approaches.