Lessons from a successful national sanitation programme

The case of Nyumba ni Choo in Tanzania

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ID22945136
AutoresRobert Aunger (0000-0001-8136-9376, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, autor de correspondencia), Kaposo Mwambuli (Project CLEAR Ltd , Plot # 1297, Pieta Lane Masaki, Dar es Salaam , Tanzania), Jason Cardosi (Project CLEAR Ltd , Plot # 1297, Pieta Lane Masaki, Dar es Salaam , Tanzania)
Año2023
Volumen38
Número5
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth Promotion International (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/heapro/daad126
PMID37815063
OpenAlexW4387473162
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas21

Universal access to hygienic sanitation is a Sustainable Development Goal for international development. However, many countries are liable to miss this target by the deadline of 2030. As provision and subsidy are prohibitively expensive, promotion is the tactic commonly taken by governments and stakeholders in many countries, even though it is often not effective at generating significant changes in sanitation coverage. A recent 5-year programme used an international consortium made up of organizations’ experts in consumer research, creative communication, programme management and event implementation, media monitoring and programme evaluation, to achieve significant increases in the coverage of improved sanitation facilities throughout Tanzania, using adaptive programming. A number of lessons, outlined here, can be drawn from this experience which are likely to be applicable to promotion efforts in other countries and contexts and which can hopefully help countries to reach their sanitation targets. These lessons include the use of motivation and targeted expertise rather than reliance on training, the use of the theory of change to guide development processes, targeting of high-level government support, collaboration with private sector actors, testing and refreshing of messaging, continuous monitoring of on-ground conditions, use of multiple modes of outreach and branding of all programme outputs.

Business · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Government (linguistics) · Millennium Development Goals · Monitoring and evaluation · Outreach · Political science · Private sector · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Sanitation · Subsidy · Sustainable development · Tanzania · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Maternal and Child Health · Marketing · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare