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- 10/05/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at The Water Institute, University of North Carolina - Turning Impossible Challenges into Solvable Problems
- 09/23/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Water Security for Women and Girls
- 09/23/2011: Better Irrigation Brings Better Life: USAID rebuilds karezes in Daman to improve agricultural output
- 09/22/2011: Podcast interview at CSIS with Chris Holmes on USAID's current work on Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programming
- 09/22/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies - Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programming
- 09/19/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Center for Environment and National Security - Water Security, Climate Change and Finance
- 09/16/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, Meeting Global Water Needs: Challenges and Solutions
- 09/08/2011 Hand Washing Hygiene Saves Lives
- 09/07/2011: Health and Wealth Filter Through
- 07/19/2011: WASH for Life
- 07/05/2011: Photo Essay: Establishing the Lake Niassa Reserve in Mozambique
- 07/2011: Your Voice: Peru’s Melting Glaciers Teach Community “to Be Strong in the Face of the Changes”
- 06/13/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, Water for People Founders Award Address
- 03/22/2011: Secretary Clinton on World Water Day (Department of State website)
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Success Story:
Promoting Hygiene Improvement in Amhara, Ethiopia
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An Ethiopian man using the tippy tap outside his latrine to wash hands (2005)
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USAID's Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is working with the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) of the World Bank to support the Government of Ethiopia’s program goal of achieving universal access to hygiene and sanitation by 2010.
The HIP/WSP approach is known as Learning by Doing: At Scale Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement, which is currently being implemented in the Amhara Region of 20 million. Handwashing and sanitation behavior change is reinforced by applying a hybrid approach melding innovative community and household level action, including introducing “MIKIKIR,” an approach for negotiating improved household hygiene household behaviors through outreach efforts of the national health extension workers and community mobilization using tools from community-led total sanitation. Handwashing and hygiene have been explicitly promoted in all sanitation activities, encouraging the establishment of handwashing stations and use of water saving devices like tippy taps to overcome barriers to handwashing.
Nearly 1.2 million households have received messages about the importance of hygiene and sanitation and almost 600,000 certified "clean and healthy" (using a latrine with a handwashing station, such as a tippy tap).
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