Evaluating a Latrine Use Intervention in Odisha, India

"* Community Level:~ * Palla: songs and skits to increase knowledge of and motivation for latrine use, pit emptying, safe feces disposal;~ * Transect Walk: village walk to identify and mark feces in community;~ * Community meetings: sex-segregated meetings with village members to decide on an action plan to increase community cleanliness/reduce open defecation;~ * Wall painting: village map noting households that use latrines always.~* Sub-Community level:~ * Mothers meeting: For caregivers with children under age 5, to provide knowledge of and hardware for safe child feces disposal.~* Household Level:~ * Household visits: to those with latrines to motivate use;~ * Latrine repairs: for households with non-functional latrines to make functional."

"For villages receiving the intervention package, investigators will engage community members through qualitative interviews to gain their perception of the intervention, what they thought of the intervention activities, what information they recall, what aspects they enjoyed or disliked, if they had barriers to attendance or participation.~For the three villages not receiving the intervention, investigators will conduct qualitative interviews to determine additional barriers and determinants of latrine use to identify other potential intervention strategies."