Project area
Drinking safe water
Even if households have access to safe water (safe water = free from microbiological or chemical contaminants), several obstacles might prevent them from drinking safe water:
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They prefer to go to the unsafe well because they are used to it, or it is nearer, or the water is cheaper
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They collect safe water, but their transportation and storage containers or their drinking devices are unsafe
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They do not use any water disinfection technique
We analyze the psychosocial and contextual drivers of not performing these behaviors and develop interventions focusing on exactly these drivers.
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Fact Sheets
Using persuasive arguments to change perceived costs and thus consumption of safe water in Ethiopia
Promoting long-term arsenic-safe water consumption in Bangladesh through commitment-enhancing interventions
Projects
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2013-2016 | Testing behavior change strategies promoting chlorination of drinking water to prevent cholera in Chad (WHO) | more information
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2016 | Promoting solar water disinfection in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe (EU)
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2016 | Improving transport and safe storage of drinking water in Benin (GIZ) | more information
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2016 | Promoting household and community filter use for fluoride removal in Ethiopia (SDC)
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh
2017​
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Testing behavior change strategies promoting chlorination of drinking water to prevent cholera in Chad (WHO) | more information
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh
2016
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Promoting solar water disinfection in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe (EU funded) | more information
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Improving transport and safe storage of drinking water in Benin (GIZ) | more information
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Promoting household and community filter use for fluoride removal in Ethiopia (SDC) | more information
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh
2017​
Testing behavior change strategies promoting chlorination of drinking water to prevent cholera in Chad (WHO)
How to promote chlorination of drinking water? How to prevent relapse from chlorinating drinking water? A 3-years project in Chad in cooperation with WHO revealed ... read more
2016
Promoting solar water disinfection in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Zimbabwe (EU funded)
Two projects on changing handwashing behavior have recently been completed in rural and urban Zimbabwe. Both were financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC. Interestingly, the psychosocial factors steering the target behavior were ... read more
Improving transport and safe storage of drinking water in Benin (GIZ)
What drives safe water users to use clean transport and storage containers and to disinfect water? What are the psychosocial determinants of drinking safe water? If we know these determinants, we can ... read more
Promoting household and community filter use for fluoride removal in Ethiopia (SDC)
The objectives of this study were to show which determinants commonly explain handwashing with soap and how well they do so and to identify population-specific determinants to be targeted in different contexts. The study collates data from more than 5000 households ... read more
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh
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Promoting use of arsenic-free water sources in Bangladesh