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EHP
II Activities
Selection: Policy Report
and Meetings, Partnerships, and Operations Research
Guatemala: Interim Evaluation of
a Handwashing Initiative
EHP reviewed
data collected to assess the progress of and suggest next steps for a four
year old collaboration between private soap companies in Central America
and USAID (through EHP and the BASICS project) to promote handwashing for
diarrheal disease prevention in soap company advertisements.
Performance Monitoring and
Evaluation
Performance
monitoring is at the center of EHP's evidence-based planning and
management and addresses needs internal to the project and those of USAID:
meeting internal needs includes monitoring and evaluating of the project
as a whole and its two major program areas (Community-Based Environmental
Sanitation and Hygiene � CESH � and Environmental Change and Health
Outcomes � ECHO); meeting USAID needs includes improving the validity
and reliability of existing water, sanitation, and hygiene indicators.
Lessons Learned and Policy
Reports
Through
internal and external technical meetings, EHP captures lessons learned
from its experience and keeps USAID up to date on the project's progress.
Developing Strategic Partnerships
Through
participation and sponsorship of international meetings and other
collaborative and information-sharing activities, USAID reaches out to
partners at the local, national, regional, and international level to
influence the environmental health agenda and increase the demand for and
public health impact of environmental health activities; to date USAID has
co-sponsored (with WHO) a global technical consultation on the health
impacts of indoor air pollution in developing countries (May 2000) and has
supported EHP consultants attending a conference in Lucknow,
India,(November 2000) on respiratory diseases and the environment.
Operations Research in Malaria
With the
assistance of a working group of technical experts on malaria, EHP has
developed an operations research agenda and proposed indicators of success
to examine the potential for community-based malaria vector management for
prevention of malaria in developing countries, particularly in urban
areas.
Promoting National Policies for
Environmental Sanitation
USAID is in
the preparatory stage of an effort to develop and apply tools for
promoting sanitation as national policy in developing countries to address
high rates of sickness and death from diarrheal disease - the major health
hazard of poor sanitation conditions; preparatory activities include
creation of strategic partnerships between USAID and other external
support agencies and the identification of needs for sanitation policy
tools, especially those that promote the integration of hygiene behavior
change in sanitation.
Operations Research in Diarrheal
Disease
An applied
research program in community-based approaches for diarrheal disease
prevention is in the planning stages.
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