Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH)
2010 - 2015 • Global Communities
Purpose
To make measurable, community-focused improvements in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties in Liberia.
Activities
The “Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene” (IWASH)
program goal was to make measurable, community-focused
improvements in water supply, sanitation and hygiene in Bong,
Lofa and Nimba counties in Liberia.
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Building on existing program frameworks, IWASH also included Ebola-related
hygiene messaging in the final year of implementation.
IWASH sought to:
Increase access to water supply, sanitation, hygiene
education and household-level hygiene products.
Raise community knowledge and use of potable water
supply options and storage technologies, sanitation
facilities and hygiene practices.
Develop an enabling environment for WASH at the
national, county, district and community levels.
This case study will focus on the program’s employment of
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), which promotes
transformative, community-driven behaviour change to
eliminate open defecation. Global Communities developed an
innovative “CLTS+” approach by tailoring the proven CLTS
methodology to community-specific needs in order to create a
more sustainable and scalable program model for some of
Liberia’s most vulnerable communities.
Countries of activity
Location of main activity
Filter tags
Behaviour change Community sanitation Enabling environment and institutional strengthening International NGO Political processes and institutional aspects Rural Rural areas Specific to one or several countries Sub-Saharan Africa Toilets or urinals (user interface) United States government
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