WASH for Everyone: Testing Alternative Approaches to Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviour Change in Chiradzulu, Malawi

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

2,800

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 13, 2023

Primary Completion Date

May 1, 2024

Study Completion Date

May 1, 2024

Conditions
Behavior
Interventions
OTHER

Community-Led Total Sanitation

"The community-led total sanitation intervention is implemented across an entire Traditional Authority and includes the following village-level activities:~1. Triggering:~ * Village transect walks and open defecation site mapping~ * Demonstrations of food contamination and medical expense calculations~2. Development of a Community-Action Plan and identification of natural leaders~3. Post-triggering: routine follow-up by selected natural leaders to track and monitor progress against the Community Action Plan~In addition to the activities above, the WASH for Everyone team will:~* Train a cadre of local masons on sanitation construction~* Support the District Health office in the implementation of existing sanitation and hygiene promotion at village markets and other public spaces"

OTHER

Care Groups

"* Orientation and training of village-level Care Group members on CLTS, latrine construction, and hygiene promotion~* Routine house-to-house follow-up of Care Group members to provide peer-to-peer counselling and support on sanitation and hygiene behaviours."

Trial Locations (1)

Unknown

Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, WASHTED Centre, Blantyre

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) WASHTED Centre

UNKNOWN

collaborator

University of Strathclyde

OTHER

lead

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

OTHER