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Psychosocial 'triggering': directive

Intervention group: 
Behaviour change counselling

Directive mechanisms are typically social marketing campaigns aimed at WASH service users, which use commercial marketing techniques to promote the adoption of beneficial behaviours. They can also include other styles of campaign that use emotional or social triggers rather than information.

Sustained adoption of WASH technologies (Hulland, 2015)

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Social marketing (Evans, 2014)

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Hygiene and sanitation behaviour change (De Buck, 2017)

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Hygiene messages for children (Watson, 2017)

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Behaviour change on POU water treatment (Fiebelkorn, 2012)

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