De JONG 2003 Advocacy For Water Hygiene Sanitation

Advocacy for Water, Environmental
Sanitation and Hygiene

Thematic Overview Paper
Author: Dick de Jong (IRC)

Reviewers: Belinda Calaguas (WaterAid), Ton Schouten (IRC)
January 2003
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
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Advocacy for water, environmental sanitation and hygiene
Understanding advocacy, social mobilisation and communication

Continuum
Advocacy action
Advocacy tools
Social mobilisation
Advocacy in practice
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Why this theme matters

Key messages
Poverty, sickness and death toll: shameful and scandalous
Why do politicians and decision-makers turn a blind eye?
Crisis of management and political will
Campaign approaches
Management of the campaign
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A brief history
Noordwijk Conference 1994
Integrated Water Resources Management
The problems
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Concepts, lessons, good examples

Integrated Marketing Communication
Examples
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Implications at different levels

Steps to create a strategy for advocacy and communication
Dos
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Targets, indicators and monitoring

Indicators of political will
Impact Research and Evaluation Methods
Two major evaluation studies on hygiene promotion
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TOP Books, papers, articles, manuals

Radio
Video
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TOP Web sites and electronic networks
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TOP Contacts
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TOP Courses and conferences
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TOP Research programmes
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Press cuttings
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Top Quiz
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Annex 1:
About IRC
Two water and sanitation examples
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Advocacy for water, environmental sanitation and

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add your contributions !2.
In this Thematic Overview Paper we focus on the issue: water, sanitation and hygiene
for all. We link this to existing campaigns, such as the WASH - Water, Sanitation and
Hygiene for all - campaign of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
(WSSCC) !3. This campaign was launched at the Bonn Freshwater Conference in
December 2001. It emerged from the earlier efforts on public information and
promotion for water and sanitation in the 1980s, followed by the work of an
international working group on Information, Education and Communication (IEC) of
the WSSCC. This group from 1991 - 1997 developed and tested various advocacy and
communication !4 tools.
The links between advocacy, social mobilisation and communication are explained with
an example from an eight-year sanitation programme in Bangladesh. In the section Why
this theme matters starting on page 3, the key messages and the process of the WASH
campaign are being described.
Global public information and promotion and IEC efforts in the 1980s and 1990s and
the problems associated with them provide valuable lessons for future advocacy work.
Integrated Marketing Communication (page 14) for behavioural impact in health and
social development builds on lessons from commercial marketing. To achieve a specific
behavioural result for a specific target group a carefully designed strategic, integrated
marketing communication plan is essential.
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A set of examples of successful single issue-based advocacy campaigns (page 15) is

followed by the Implications at different levels (page 17) for planning and
implementing advocacy and communication programmes, and what steps to follow.
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Research for advocacy and communication programmes (page 36) is mainly done in the
formative stage while the programme is being designed. A list of five major advocacy
topics containing information on 16 issues illustrates the need to focus. The major
categories are: hygiene, sanitation, gender, institutional/sector reform and resource
centre development/capacity building.
Targets, indicators and monitoring (page 18) of advocacy action on the basis of targets
and indicators is needed to check whether the programme is reaching its goals and to
see where changes are called for. Impact research and evaluation methods need to be
planned in advance. Two major evaluation studies dealing with hygiene promotion are
looked at in more detail.
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Understanding advocacy, social mobilisation and

communication
Introduction
What is advocacy? Advocacy is the action of delivering an argument to gain
commitment from political and social leaders and to prepare a society for a particular
issue. Advocacy involves the selection and organisation of information to create a
convincing argument, and its delivery through various interpersonal and media
channels. Advocacy includes organising and building alliances across various
stakeholders.
On its own, advocacy cannot achieve much. Social mobilisation and effective
communication are also essential to achieving its objectives.
There are several different ways of looking at and understanding advocacy.
In this overview we follow a well-tested approach that sees advocacy as part of a wider
continuum of a communication process, that includes social mobilisation and
programme communication (McKee, 1992). The first component in this continuum is
creating awareness and gaining the commitment of decision-makers for a social cause,
and this is called advocacy. Increasingly, advocacy is people-based and people-driven.
A rights-based approach to development is also very helpful in understanding advocacy.
Continuum
Figure 1 is an example of how McKee's communication planning continuum was used
for the Sanitation for All in Bangladesh programme that the Government of Bangladesh
implemented from 1993 to 1998 with UNICEF and Danish and Swiss support. Political
will, when combined with an investment of over 4 million US dollars and the support of
appropriate and effective allies, contributed to an increase in the use of sanitary latrines
from 10 percent to nearly 40 percent of the population !5.
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Figure.1 Communication planning process (McKee, 1992)

After 1998 the outbreak of arsenic pollution of groundwater in Bangladesh triggered
different advocacy action in and outside Bangladesh. As a result less attention was paid
to sanitation promotion and the commitment for action dwindled.
Advocacy action
Advocacy is the action of delivering an argument to gain commitment from political and social
leaders and to prepare a society for a particular issue. Advocacy involves the selection and
organisation of information to create a convincing argument, and its delivery through various
interpersonal and media channels. Advocacy consists also of organising and building
alliances across various stakeholders.
Advocacy starts from the basic premise that the issues we are concerned about are
political and politicised. Questions such as who decides to place what infrastructure,
when and where; when to prioritise or de-prioritise services for the poor; how much to
allocate and why these are all political questions. How people gain a voice to argue
for their positions, regardless of how well researched or presented, is also a political
question.
Existing policies, current attitudes to the poor, ongoing practices by development
practitioners and bureaucrats and the relatively weak voice of poor people in
determining priorities, all contribute to lack of prioritisation of water and sanitation
services for the poor and marginalised.
The goal of advocacy is not only to make the issue a political or national priority and to
achieve change in policy and practice. It also aims to build transparency and
accountability in policy-making and decision-taking, and to build the capacity of civil
society and of grassroots people and organisations to act for change.
Advocacy is carried out through a large number of what are traditionally known as
information and public affairs activities.
Advocacy, in the first instance, may be carried out by key people in international
agencies, as well as special ambassadors, but is gradually taken over by people in
national and local leadership positions and by the print and electronic media.
Increasingly in this multi-polar world where e-mail communication is used by NGOs in
the remotest areas, advocacy may be led by local actors from the south, then picked up
by international agencies especially in relation to highlighting issues.
Advocacy tools
Interpersonal meetings are the most effective and participatory advocacy tools, but with
the limited availability of advocates in the field, the potential number of people reached
is limited and further expansion is costly. Other common tools used for advocacy
include:
lobbying to influence the policy process by working closely with key individuals in
political and governmental structures;
meetings, usually as part of a lobbying strategy;
negotiation, to reach a common position;
project visits, to demonstrate good practice.
Many advocacy initiatives involve members of the general public influencing policy
makers. Tools for reaching the public include newsletters, e-mail/internet, flyers,
pamphlets, booklets, fact sheets, posters, video and drama, petitions and canvassing.
The media (press, TV and radio) reach the general public and contribute to setting the
agenda for politicians and policy makers. Many of these tools overlap or are used in
conjunction with each other. For example, policy makers need to be personally
contacted to benefit from dialogue and influence decisions.
On its own advocacy will not achieve much. Social mobilisation is also absolutely
essential to achieving advocacy objectives.
Social mobilisation
Social mobilisation is the process of bringing together allies from various sectors to
raise awareness of and demand for a particular development programme or policy
change. The process mobilises allies at different levels in society to assist in the delivery
of resources and services, to strengthen community participation for sustainability and
self-reliance, and to bring about transparent and accountable decision-making. Social
mobilisation is the glue that binds advocacy to planned and researched programme
communication.
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Programme communication is the process of identifying, segmenting and targeting

specific groups and audiences with particular strategies, messages or training
programmes; reaching them through various mass media and interpersonal channels,
both traditional and non-traditional. Effective communication is a two-way dialogue,
where senders and receivers of information interact on an equal footing and where this
interchange of knowledge and experience leads to mutual discovery. During effective
communication, planners, experts and field workers learn to listen to people about their
concerns, needs and possibilities.
Advocacy in practice
WaterAid and other NGOs in the UK with project partners in the developing world have
since 2000 recognised and applied four dimensions of advocacy !6:
policy dimension changes in policy, attitudes, practices, programmes, direction of
resource allocation, etc.;
civil society dimension the strengthening of capacity and power of civil society so
that they could take their seat at the table and play an effective role in policy making
and decision-taking;
democratic space dimension improving the accountability of those who
lead/govern, and increasing the legitimacy of civil society participation in policy
making/decision-taking;
individual gain dimension improving peoples material gains in terms of quality of
life, as well as expanding their awareness of themselves as citizens with rights and
entitlements and the responsibility to act on them.
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http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/why_advocacy/default.asp
Why this theme matters

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) launched the Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene for All, WASH campaign !7 at the International Conference on
Freshwater in Bonn, Germany in December 2001 as a concerted global advocacy effort
by members and partners of the Collaborative Council to place sanitation, hygiene and
water firmly on the political agenda. The Council has been advocating for these issues
since 1991 the end of the International Water Supply and Sanitation Decade.
Hundreds of members of the Collaborative Council met in Foz do Igaucu, Brazil in
November 2000. Collectively, they considered both Vision 21 and the JMP Global
Assessment Report, and reached consensus on the way forward. That way forward is
described in the Iguau Action Programme (IAP). The IAP indicates how we can put
Vision 21 into practice, to progress from the current situation to our desired goal. It is
aimed at everybody around the world who is involved in water, sanitation and hygiene,
from individual householders to politicians and decision-makers.
Better hygiene, more sanitation facilities and safe water supplies are among the goals of
the Iguau Action Programme (IAP) agreed upon at the Fifth Global Forum of the
Council end November 2000 by some 250 ambassadors for VISION 21: Water for
People !8.
Key messages
The WASH campaign has three key messages:
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The silent emergency
Billions of people are without adequate sanitation, resulting in 6,000 unnecessary deaths
every day.
2.
Women and children suffer the most
There are still 2.4 billion people around the globe without access to adequate sanitation
facilities, with devastating consequences for women and children. Where there are no
latrines girls commonly avoid school. Without latrines women and girls wait until dark
to defecate, exposing themselves to harassment and sexual assault. Infectious diseases
associated with lack of water and sanitation put womens reproductive health at risk.
Diarrhoea resulting from poor sanitation and hygiene is responsible for the death of
more than two million impoverished children each year.
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Sanitation is not a dirty word
Many politicians and decision-makers do not realise that providing access to sanitation
facilities is relatively inexpensive, and will halve the death toll for those who do not
currently enjoy this fundamental human right. Politicians need to realise that water,
hygiene and sanitation are entry points for poverty reduction. Because the neediest have
the least political power, leaders have little incentive to focus on this issue.
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Poverty, sickness and death toll: shameful and scandalous

What do these three key arguments add up to? The poverty, sickness and death toll on
these populations are shameful and scandalous in these times of relative prosperity.
Many of those affected are impoverished women and children living in squalor in Asia,
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Women and girls pay a high price in terms of
loss of dignity, lack of education, increases to their already heavy workloads and in
infectious diseases. In some countries in Eastern and Central Europe as well as the
Middle East many people also suffer in misery from lack of these basic facilities.
Improper disposal of human wastes is one of the developing worlds most serious public
health problems. The statistics are staggering: diarrhoea dehydration caused by this
disease has killed more children in the last ten years than all the people lost to armed
conflict since World War II.
Why do politicians and decision-makers turn a blind eye?

Why then do politicians and decision-makers turn a blind eye? Why do the worlds
citizens not exert greater pressure on their leaders for action to solve this crisis? The
reasons are many and complex. Politicians and decision-makers consider sanitation a
dirty word. They do not realise that they could halve the death toll on the half of
humanity that do not enjoy these fundamental rights. There are few incentives and little
prestige or political capital to encourage politicians to tackle sanitation, because those
who are most in need have the least political power.
Water has always played a key role in peoples cultures and priorities. It is natural that
they should demand water rather than sanitation or hygiene promotion as their first
priority. However, while investments in water quality and quantity can reduce deaths
caused by diarrhoea by 17 per cent, sanitation can reduce it by 36 per cent and hygiene
by 33 per cent. One reason why these figures are overlooked is that water sector
agencies are typically led by highly qualified water engineers, who are untrained or
uninterested in sanitation or hygiene.
Crisis of management and political will

The impending water and sanitation crisis in the developing world is a crisis of
governance and political will. Many governments are failing to address the needs of its
poor and marginalised inhabitants who often pay a higher price than the rest of society
for water and sanitation services. Unless there is a shift to involve people at the centre
of water management, this precious resource will cause conflicts among communities
and between countries and will widen the gap between the rich and poor. Stronger
public accountability, better regulations and legislation and more effective monitoring
of water and sanitation services are all needed to improve governance and service
delivery, especially to the poorest of the poor. The WASH campaign promotes
partnerships between the public and private sectors to provide more equitable and
affordable services. It aims for priority to be given to the poor, particularly women and
children who suffer the heaviest burden of poverty and sickness.
WASH aims to raise the commitment of political and social leaders to achieve these
goals and the necessary behavioural changes. This will involve using traditional and
mass media, focusing on hygiene promotion in schools, training and building the local
capacity for communications and improving networking and research.
Campaign approaches
The Collaborative Council Secretariat will provide strategies and guidance to test and
adapt a communication for development methodology for the campaign, with the help
of its Regional and National Co-ordinators, partner organisations and allies in different
parts of the world. This methodology has been successfully used by UN organisations
and donor agencies such as UNICEF, WHO and USAID in implementing health, water
and environmental sanitation programmes in the developing world.
This social mobilisation and advocacy strategy calls for a range of partnerships to be
developed among stakeholders, from policy-makers, practitioners and community,
religious and business leaders, to schools and sector professionals, and individual
households and families. The media features significantly in this strategy to bind all
segments of society to support the necessary changes in policy, behaviour and practice.
These campaign approaches will include:
Mobilising communities and promoting people-centred approaches,
Building partnerships across sectors and disciplines,
Collecting science-based information and sharing experiences,
Finding ways to allow the voices of ordinary people to be heard,
Working with an informed and responsible media.
Management of the campaign

The WSSCC Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, provides the overall management and
co-ordination of the global WASH campaign. Regional and national co-ordinators in
different parts of the world play pivotal roles in defining strategies relevant to their own
environments and to implementing activities on the ground with the help of partner
organisations and various segments of civil society. A generic set of advocacy materials
is being developed by the Council and will be made available on its website!9. Council
members, numbering over 1,100 professionals in more than 140 countries, all act as
goodwill ambassadors for WASH. These professionals include, among others, water,
sanitation and hygiene practitioners, information specialists, sociologists and
community leaders, representatives of government and non-governmental organisations,
United Nations agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors, regional banks, private
sector, academic and training institutions, professional and community associations.
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http://www.wsscc.org.
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A brief history
Global advocacy for water and sanitation has been attempted since the UN Water
Conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 1977!10. This contributed to the launch of
the UN International Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990) under the slogan
Water and Sanitation for All by 1990. The number of people served in the Decade was
impressive, but the number of unserved hardly decreased. During the Decade the basic
provision of a handpump and latrine had become four times cheaper, which can only
partly be contributed to advocacy work. In fact, during the Decade funding for water
and sanitation actually decreased.
Two quotes at the end of the Decade illustrate how little progress was made in advocacy
for water. In 1990 the Working Group on Information recommended to the
Collaborative Council (1990) that it should:
Resolve to collaborate in the preparation of a coordinated public
information strategy for the water supply and sanitation sector in the 1990's
and commit resources for a sustained public information campaign at
national and international level.
Jack Ling !11 in Water - a vital wellspring for human development (1990), said:
With the close of the Water Decade it cannot be assumed that public
interest and financial support will continue, without a planned programme
of communication. It is axiomatic that a public information and promotion
programme should be designed to support national efforts in the developing
countries.
The Global Consultation for Safe Water 2000 in New Delhi in September 1990 drew
lessons from the Decade, resulting in the New Delhi Statement: Some for all rather
than more for some!12. The 1992 International Conference on Water and Environment
and Development in Dublin put integrated water management on the political agenda
and was the bridge to the Earth Summit UN Conference on Environment and
Development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. There, world leaders endorsed
Agenda 21s Chapter 18 !13 on the protection of freshwater resources.
Noordwijk Conference 1994

To help convert the professional and political consensus into action, the Netherlands
Government convened a Ministerial Conference on Drinking Water and Environmental
Sanitation in Noordwijk in March 1994. One of the recommendations from Noordwijk
showed how small the progress had been on advocating key messages in the first four
years of the 1990s:
Governments should develop programmes, both at national and
international levels, presenting priorities for the water and environmental
sanitation sector and develop coordinated action programmes to advocate
for the sector at all levels- political, public, technical, and financial.
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http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agenda21chapter18.htm
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With more than half of the 1990s gone, the World Water Council !14 was established in
Marseille, France, in 1996 as a non-profit global think tank raising awareness about the
importance of water. The Global Water Partnership !15 was established by the World
Bank to facilitate action on Integrated Water Resources Management in countries. The
mission of the World Water Council is to promote awareness and build political
commitment, up to the highest decision-making level, to facilitate efficient
conservation, protection, development, planning, management and use of water in all its
dimensions on an environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit of all life on earth.
To fulfill its missions and objectives, the World Water Council has created the World
Water Forum, accompanied by a major Ministerial Conference every three years. The
first one in 1997 in Morocco endorsed the development of a Vision for Water, Life and
the Environment. This was endorsed with a Putting the World Water Vision into action
plan in March 2000 at the Second !16 WWF in the Hague.
VISION 21: Water for People !17 is part and parcel of the World Water Vision.
The Third World Water Forum !18 is in Japan, in March 2003.
The problems
This short summary shows one of the problems with advocacy in the water and
sanitation sectors: a succession of too many initiatives: too many international
conferences dealing with water without sufficient national follow-up, too many good
intentions from a relatively small group of internationals experts without real grounding
in national and community settings.
Other problems include:
Too many messages, too many organisations dealing with water; insufficient
involvement of civil society, and the lack of a concerted, well researched, monitored
long-term advocacy and communication programming.
No clear understanding that advocacy (gaining political and societal commitment for
a cause) is part of a wider communication development process that encompasses
social mobilisation (of relevant allies and partners) and programme communication
(media use etc).
Lack of an overall international agency to champion water, sanitation and hygiene,
in the way that the International Red Cross does for emergencies, UNICEF for
mother and child care, WHO for health, UNEP for environment, UNFPA for family
planning and FAO for food and agriculture. Lack of national-level and local-level
champions lead a push for change.
Advocacy for prioritising water, sanitation and hygiene has never reached the
grassroots and has not involved wider civil society. Insufficient links have been
made with social movement groups like womens groups, organisations of the urban
poor, farmers cooperatives and local NGOs working on environment, against
poverty, etc. Advocacy has been mainly directed at the professional and global
bureaucracy levels.
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Funding for public information and awareness raising has decreased in many UN and
bilateral agencies, as is illustrated by the relatively poor performance of the UN World
Water Day celebrations organised by a different UN agency each year since 1993 !19.
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Concepts, lessons, good examples

Integrated Marketing Communication
A recent paradigm that the author of this TOP has found useful for the water, sanitation
and hygiene is Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) !20 for behavioural impact
in health and social development. This draws lessons from commercial marketing to
achieve a specific behavioural result for a specific target group with a carefully
designed strategic, integrated marketing communication plan.
IMC suggests that key conventional "Information-Education-Communication" (IEC)
programmes in health have been able to increase awareness and knowledge, but they
have not been as successful at achieving behavioural results. It is clear that informing
and educating people are not sufficient bases for behavioural responses. Behavioural
impact will emerge only with effective communication programmes, purposefully
directed at behavioural goals, and not directed just at awareness creation, or advocacy or
public education.
Private sector experience over 100 years in successfully using IMC with consumer
behaviour (for products both awful and superb) points to an approach applicable to
health and social development. IMC begins with the client/consumer and a sharp focus
on the anticipated behavioural result, clearly mapped out by practical market research or
situation analysis related to the desired behaviours. This requires the integrated
application of the disciplines of health education, adult education, mass communication,
social and community mobilisation, folk media, marketing (including village-level
marketing traditions), advertising, public relations and public advocacy, counseling,
client/customer relations, and market research to achieve the ultimate goal of
behavioural results.
Eight steps
Integrated marketing communication involves the following eight steps:
1.
State overall goal and behavioural results/objectives;
2. Situational market analysis vis--vis the precise behavioural result;
3.
Strategy for achieving behavioural results, including communication objectives
and an outline communication strategy;
4. IMC plan of action, specifying integrated communication actions to be undertaken
with details on Message, Sender, Channel, Receiver, Effect, Feed back and Setting
(MSCREFS);
5.
Management of the IMC plan.
6. Progress monitoring and impact assessment;
7.
Calendar / time-line / implementation plan;
8.
Budget.
The New York University and Dr. Everold Husein (now Communication Advisor at
WHO) who combines 25 years of commercial marketing and social marketing with
public health communication experience are offering a three-week summer IMC course
for planners dealing with communication challenges on health and social topics in the
developing world. See Courses and Conferences (p. 34).
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http://www.nyu.edu/education/summer/imc
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Examples
Here are a few examples of successful advocacy ranging from longer running
programmes using the mix of advocacy, social mobilisation and programme
communication to quick, single issue-based campaigns:
The successful international guinea worm eradication campaign shows the impact of
effective advocacy action!21. It also shows that it takes a long time and may need to
be repeated. The campaign started in 1989 with nationwide searches for cases, and
by highlighting the socio-economic impact of infestation. Internationally, the
campaign was boosted by former President Jimmy Carter, who was able to open
doors at top level. WHO and UNCEF put their weight behind it. Nationally, it was
characterised by personal communication from national leaders. The impact of
communication at local, national and global level came together for maximum
effect.
The number of people infected by guinea worm worldwide has fallen by 98% since
1989, but war and lack of financial backing in countries still plagued with this
debilitating disease are allowing the number of cases to increase again. The World
Health Organization and influential campaigners were in March 2002 calling for a
final effort to eliminate the disease in countries where cases have fallen to low
levels, and for new approaches to create the space to rescue communities still living
with the guinea worm in conflict zones.
These challenges were addressed at a meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, in March 2002
involving former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, two other former heads of state,
eight ministers of health and public health leaders from all countries where guinea
worm exists.
The Dona Flvia Experience !22 in the Philippines is an excellent example of how
since 1999 in the most populated barangay of the municipality of San Luis in
Agusan del Sur, in the Philippines, advocacy helped to create an enabling
environment for community management of water and sanitation systems. The
Philippine Centre for Water and Sanitation/International Training Network
Foundation, Manila, supported this process. In October 2001 the local government
was replicating the approach in other barangays.
Clean up of Hudson river USA !23. Called to action by the US based Citizens
Campaign for the Environment (CCE) (a grassroots campaign to restore the Hudson
River), over 12,000 of CCE's Hudson Valley members and supporters agreed with
the proposed cleanup plan and signed petitions and submitted comments to the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a result of this backing by civil society
and the support generated by other pro-cleanup advocates, the EPA announced in
August 2001 plans to force General Electric to clean up its mess.
WaterAid' s first campaign Water Matters !24 culminated at the World Summit
on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in September 2002. Leading up to the WSSD
the UK NGOs WaterAid and Tearfund had an online petition as part of their
advocacy work influencing the UK government. The petition was signed by 121,770
members of the public in the UK.
21.
22.
23.
24.
http://www.irc.nl/themes/communication/cases/guinea.html.
http://www.irc.nl/manage/manuals/donaflaviacs.html
http://www.citizenscampaign.org/newsletters/fall2001.htm
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/campaigns/
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There are more case studies in WaterAids advocacy guide Advocacy, What is it all
about? !25. These include:
Contributing to the National Rural Water Strategy: Uganda

The final strategy document contains two advocacy objectives: promoting the role
of the NGOs in the provision of water and sanitation services in rural areas, and how
community management might be implemented.
Contributing to the National Water and Sanitation Strategy: Zambia

WaterAids contribution to the final strategy was to emphasise the need to
understand why a commitment to community contributions was necessary for water
provision.
The Mole Conference Series: Ghana

WaterAid and ProNet have since 1997 organised the annual national conference for
the water and sanitation sector held in Mole, central Ghana. The conference,
together with other advocacy initiatives, has been instrumental in changing
government policies towards hand-dug wells in Ghana, which are now recognised
and accepted. Other issues, such as the role of women in water management,
challenges of community water, and issues of sustainable sanitation were debated.
Collaboration and co-ordination has increased as a result of the Conference series.
More flexible government subsidies for sanitation: India

WaterAid targeted two leading government programmes as a result of a successful,
more flexible approach to sanitation promotion in Tamil Nadu, India, that since the
mid 1990s has included varying levels of subsidy and loans for latrine construction.
This achieved some key advocacy objectives including a restructured Total Rural
Sanitation Programme that accepted reduced and differential subsidy levels and
different models of latrines, so that more subsidy is now targeted to those in need.
Key factors in the success of this advocacy initiative have been assessed as:
demonstrating successful initiatives in the field,
providing cheaper, alternative models which still meet the required standards,
the strength of the NGO network in providing support and a unified voice when
dealing with government,
the reputation of the NGOs in the network.
25.
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/ site/in_depth/why_advocacy/default.asp
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Implications at different levels

Taking an advocacy and communication approach will require changes in the following:
Design of WSS programmes;
Capacity building for the organisation, and for programme staff;
Resources to build advocacy and communication into programmes;
Network building and networking;
Addressing the capacity needs of people in communities for advocacy work.
Steps to create a strategy for advocacy and communication

The steps to follow as identified by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative
Councils IEC working group in1997 can be summarised as follows:
What is the issue? What are we trying to achieve?
ISSUE
What behavioural change does this involve?
BEHAVIOUR
Who are the target groups? (whose behaviour needs to change?)
WHO
What are the present knowledge, attitudes, practices of the target groups?
KAP
What type of messages will be used?
MESSAGE
Will the messages be two-way?
TYPE
Will information provider also listen?
TYPE
Who will help in communication?
MESSENGERS
What field test will be carried out?
FIELD TEST
What media and tools will be used?
TOOLS
What are the indicators for results?
INDICATORS
What are the costs and the budget?
COSTS
What revisions are needed after the field test?
REVISE
The Resource booklet for Communication in Water Supply and Sanitation !26 can also
be used as a tool to design a communication strategy as part of an overall water and
sanitation programme. Chapter 5 provides basic elements for messages to key target
groups, which need adjustment to local situations and problems. Chapter 7 contains
Basic Steps for Preparation and Implementation of an advocacy and communication
programme.
Dos
Make sure you link advocacy and communication posters, pamphlets and videos to a
strategic communication plan.
Only produce materials as part of a campaign.
Pre-test messages, posters pamphlets and pictures with a selection of key
consumers.
Ensure that you organise how you will measure the impact of your advocacy efforts.
26.
http://www.irc.nl//themes/communication/resbook/
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Targets, indicators and monitoring

Monitoring and evaluating advocacy work is relatively new territory for NGOs and
donors. The earlier mentioned training guideline How to do advocacy from the British
Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND) contains a useful online note !27 on this
topic.
There are some excellent materials recently published regarding the monitoring and
assessment of impact of advocacy work:
Impact Assessment for Development Agencies: learning to value change. Roche, C,
1999, Oxfam Development guidelines, Oxfam and Novib, UK. This is a
comprehensive and thorough discussion of impact assessment and it includes a
chapter devoted to advocacy impact assessment, which builds on Roche and Bush
1997 and discusses various approaches, constraints and key considerations for
assessing advocacy impact.
Assessing Impact of advocacy work. Roche, C and Bush, A, 1997 Appropriate
Technology, Vol. 24, No. 2
There is also an excellent more general survey of impact assessment of advocacy
methodologies and tools. We include this because it would be good for the WSS
sector to look at how advocacy is being monitored an assessed beyond the sector.
Monitoring and evaluating advocacy: A scoping study, by Jennifer Chapman and
Amboka Wameyo, Jan 2001 ActionAid, UK.
The basic lesson is that if your advocacy objectives are vague and unspecific, it is
almost impossible to monitor or evaluate your progress.
Indicators of political will

Kraig Klaudt, Advocacy Campaign Coordinator WHO-Geneva made useful
contributions at the 2001 Integrated Marketing Communication Summer course at NYU
(see Courses and Conferences, p. 34) on indicators of political will. In a STOP-TB
eForum !28 discussion from Aug to Nov 2001 he summarised the following indicators
for the existence and emergence of political will:
1.
One could imagine a number of specific, ultimate behavioural outcomes that one
could track, which would indicate increasing, static or decreasing political will for
hygiene promotion within a country. To name a few:
appointment of high-caliber hygiene promotion programme leadership;
relative salaries of hygiene promotion programme staff compared to other

staff;
size and administrative positioning of hygiene promotion within the

MOH/Min of Water;
specific changes in hygiene promotion policy, legislation or regulations;
implementation of hygiene promotion policies, legislation or regulations;
changes in levels of hygiene promotion funding;
actual allocation of hygiene promotion funding.
27.
28.
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guideval.html
http://archives.healthdev.net/stop-tb/
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2.
In attempting to achieve these outcomes, one could measure many intermediary

attitudinal indicators, which could suggest whether or not one's advocacy
strategies are on target for achieving the desired behavioural outcomes. This
would involve pre- and post- tests (using opinion polls, focus groups, etc.) among
decision-makers regarding changes in their awareness, knowledge, attitudes and
values toward hygiene promotion.
3.
In influencing positive changes in awareness, knowledge, attitudes, values - and

ultimately influencing the political behaviour of decision-makers toward WSS one could monitor the level of advocacy activities. Successful advocacy strategies
are often a prerequisite for positive behavioural outcomes by decision-makers.
Some basic measurements of advocacy activities include:
amount and quality of media coverage;
frequency and scope of advocacy activities by partners and coalitions;
amount of discussion in legislatures and political for a number of useful and

highly visible political statements by celebrities and decision makers.
4.
Effective advocacy is usually predicated by the capacity of organisations or

networks to conduct effective advocacy activities (advocacy capacity is not the
same as IEC capacity). Since this is the foundation of the entire process of creating
political will, these are the most basic and rudimentary indicators that can be
measured in monitoring the process toward achieving greater political will for
water and sanitation services. Some examples include:
number of advocacy staff,
experience of advocacy staff,
size of advocacy budget,
size, diversity and influence of advocacy coalition,
existence of a strategic plan for national advocacy,
number and quality of advocacy materials and media events,
frequency of communication with political leaders.
The inability to invest in the capacity for hygiene promotion advocacy is one of the
main reasons why desirable behavioural outcomes by decision-makers for hygiene
promotion are often not forthcoming. This investment in hygiene promotion advocacy
must be made by NGOs, associations, universities, health services, the private sector,
and donors. Political will rarely emerges by accident.
Impact research and evaluation methods

A short general introduction on this topic comes from the Johns Hopkins University
Center for Communication Programs. Impact research estimates the net effects of an
intervention apart from other factors that might affect the outcome. Impact is best
measured by the classical experimental design, with random assignment of subjects to
treatment and control groups. Activities that allow for random assignment, such as
interpersonal communication/counseling training and some types of community
mobilisation are used when feasible. Activities reaching entire populations, such as
mass media, cannot use this design. JHU/CCP generally use quasi-experimental designs
and research techniques to evaluate these and other combined activities. A combination
of these methods allows for the strongest possible causal inference about the effects of
communication. They also give examples of some of their methods for impact
evaluation!29.
29.
http://www.jhuccp.org/r&e/index.stm.
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Two major evaluation studies on hygiene promotion

Two major studies have been done on evaluations of effectiveness of health/hygiene
promotion. John Hubley (2001) is slightly more positive than Cave and Curtis (1999).
Hubleys main conclusion from research he started in 1997 is that: Evidence exists for
many health topics and methods that well designed health education/communication
programmes can bring about changes in knowledge, attitudes, behaviour change and in
some cases improvements in health. See next section.
Cave and Curtis, based on their review of the literature of 31 cases between 1987 to
1999, claim that: although health education is promoted as a major factor in preventing
ill health and disease, there is little evidence of its actual impact in terms of changing
people's behaviour.
However, they raise an important question about whether health education is sustained
for long enough periods. Marketing specialists do not expect miracles in the way some
health educators seem to. Take-off curves for some consumer durables in the US show
how behaviour change can be long and slow. For example few colour TVs were sold
between their introduction in 1954 and 1962, when sales went over the thousand and
climbed steeply from there. Answering machines took for years to take off, as did
electric shavers. Blenders took about 14 years for sales to go above 1000 per year. One
reason why results haven been poor for most of the reported studies of health promotion
may simply be because most interventions are too short and evaluations too early to
show a clear impact.
For two examples on Water and Sanitation refer to Annex 1.
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TOP Books, papers, articles, manuals

Cave, B. & Curtis, V. (1999). Effectiveness of promotional techniques in
environmental healh, WELL study Task No 165 !30. Available online.
This review appears to raise legitimate grounds for doubt about the value of health
promotion. However, some interventions have demonstrated major behavioural change
and cannot be discounted. The design of interventions and evaluations should develop
feasible and practical replacement behaviour; remove constraints to behaviour change
prior to the intervention and set predefined, explicit and measurable behaviour change
outcomes from the outset. Planners and policy makers need to be aware that success in
effecting behaviour change is seldom evidenced, but that cost-effective interventions are
possible, especially in large scale programmes.
Cohen, D., Vega, R. de la & Watson, G. (2001). Advocacy for Social Justice. A
global Action and Reflection Guide. Oxfam America and Advocacy Institute,
Kumarian Press.
This is a very good chunky 364-page workbook, full of examples, case studies, and
worksheets/exercise sheets to use in designing advocacy work. It sets out the framework
for understanding advocacy, from a social movement perspective/people-centred
approach, and discusses the changes or requirements for advocacy in an era of
globalisation. There is a very useful section on advocacy skills and the book takes the
reader through the different steps toward strategy development. There is also a very
useful chapter on resources, covering capacity building for advocacy, building networks
of support, development policy and research organisations. This also lists institutions
that fund advocacy work.
Gorre-Dale, E., Jong, D. de and Ling, J. (1994). Resource booklet on
Communication in Water Supply and Sanitation !31. Available online.
This booklet is designed to support people who are convinced of the need for change in
the water sector and who want to know how to put a communication programme into
effect, in and for the sector. It cannot be prescriptive or fulfil the role of a manual, as
there is considerable variation from country to country in the way the necessary steps
should be introduced. However, it offers guidance based on the experiences of many
people in many countries, and outlines the steps that need to be taken to develop and
implement a communication strategy. Such a strategy should be designed to support the
sector goal of supplying everyone with sustainable basic water supply and sanitation.
Hubley, J. !32 (1994). Communicating Health - An Action Guide to health education
and health promotion !33. TALC, London, UK.
The prevention of disease and the promotion of health depend on the social conditions
in which people live and decisions made by politicians, planners, families and
individuals. This book explores the role of communication in improving people's health
and discusses strategies for health education, health promotion and empowerment of
families and communities to take action on health issues. Practical guidelines are given
30.
31.
32.
33.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/resources/well-studies/summaries-htm/task0165.htm
http://www.irc.nl//themes/communication/resbook/index.html
http://www.hubley.co.uk/
http://www.hubley.co.uk/hbk.htm
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for how to carry out effective communication in a wide range of settings, including the
family, community, schools, health services and the mass media.
Topics include an introduction to health education and health promotion; understanding
human behaviour; what communication is; how to teach effectively; face-to-face
communication; working with communities; using media and popular media; working
with children and young people; intersectoral collaboration; and the planning process,
including research, evaluation, and preparation of project proposal.
Contact address: TALC, St. Albans, ALI 4AX, UK. Tel: 0727 53869; Fax: 727 46852
Hubley, J. (2001). Leeds Health Education Database !34. Available online.
This is an ongoing research project to set up a computer-based database of evaluated
health education /promotion interventions in developing countries. The initial stage has
been completed with over 600 publications reviewed and 350 entered into the database.
Further analysis of the entries is being carried out to develop a book on evidence-based
health promotion to be funded by DFID. Hubleys conclusions of his research since
1997 are:
Evidence exists for many health topics and methods that well designed health
education/communication programmes can bring about changes in knowledge,
attitudes, behaviour change and in some cases improvements in health.
Most published evaluations in developing countries have been on sexual health,
infectious and tropical diseases. There has been little effort directed at emerging
problems such as cancers both tobacco-related and others, hypertension, accident
prevention, drug abuse, adolescent health, disability awareness, occupational health
and the workplace setting.
Most published studies explored traditional areas of health and behaviour change.
There were very few evaluation studies of programmes using empowerment
participation or community participation.
The impact of advocacy on health promoting policies has not been evaluated.
Many of the programmes which provide good evidence of effectiveness are small
scale pilot programmes. There is a need for research to explore issues of scaling up
and introducing good practice into health and education infrastructure.
Many good programmes have not been evaluated or have been poorly written up in
the literature. There is a need to provide technical and financial support for
evaluation, documentation and dissemination of health promotion activities.
IRC/WSSCC (1993).Communication Case Studies for Water Supply and
Sanitation !35. Available online.
A summary of eight development programme experiences in which effective
communication played or is playing a major role. The two-page case studies are from
Nigeria, Ghana, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Philippines, Lesotho and Mexico.
Ling, J. & Willstein, C. Water - a vital well spring !36. Available online.
Ling and Willstein show how to initiate advocacy for water and for environmental
sanitation.
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35.
36 .
http://www.hubley.co.uk/listing.htm
http://www.irc.nl/themes/communication/cases/
http://www.irc.nl/themes/communication/vital.html
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Jong, D. De and Wegelin M. (2000). Public Awareness and Advocacy for Sewage
Management !37. Available online.
An issue as distant from the public as sewage management for the
protection of the marine environment requires more than a mass media
public awareness campaign to mobilise interest in and willingness to pay for
improvements.
This paper gives a summary introduction to public awareness and advocacy and how
various factors influence behaviour and play an important role in the outcome. Dick de
Jong and Madeleen Wegelin-Schuringa provide a concise overview and practical advice
on advocacy in the wider context. This includes outlines of McKees useful
Development Communication Process approach combining advocacy, social
mobilisation and programme communication; social marketing; and Hubleys model for
understanding behaviours in health communication: Beliefs, Attitudes, Subjective
Norms and Enabling Factors (BASNEF).
McKee, N. (1992). Social mobilisation and social marketing in developing
communities: lessons for communicators. Penang, Malaysia. ISBN 983-9054-01-5
Excellent introduction in concepts on development communication based on 20 years
fieldwork by McKee (editor of Prescription for Health 1986 and four years in
Bangladesh). Contains many handy lists and the development communication process
continuum: advocacy/social mobilisation/programme communication, as used in
nutrition, education and community participation. The model was also applied in the
Sanitation for all programme in Bangladesh. (see above)
Contact address: Southbound, 9 College Square, 10150 Penang, Malaysia.
WaterAid. Advocacy, What is it all about? (2001) (downloadable in PDF Format) !38
A very useful guide to advocacy work in the water and sanitation. The Guide aims to
explain different advocacy tools, to provide practical examples of advocacy work and to
provide information on key policy actors and processes and how to influence them at
international level. It provides information about agencies, networks and institutions
engaged in advocacy work in the freshwater sector. The guide contains lots of case
studies, checklists and resources. The aim of WaterAid's advocacy activities is to extend
the organisation's ability to influence national policies and practices so that the poor
gain access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable water supply, sanitation and
hygiene promotion services.
37.
38.
http://www.irc.nl/products/advocacy/papers/advpubawr.html#41introd
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/why_advocacy/155.asp?keyword=
advocacy%20toolkit
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WHO (1987). Communication: a guide for managers of national diarrhoeal disease

control programmes: planning, management and appraisal of communication
activities. WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. Available also in French and Spanish .
Excellent guide to help project managers in water, hygiene and sanitation to prepare the
communication component of programmes. It helps managers to: understand the
function of communication in programmes, the essential steps in effective
communication, the need to identify a communication coordinator and other resources
to implement the communication programme, supervise and manage the people and
other resources for the communication activities.
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Councils IEC working group produced
between 1991 and 1997 a number of publications with valuable lessons and examples of
effective communication advocacy and communication that are still valid today.
Radio
Using Radio Spots to Support National CDD Programmes !39.
The main focus of national diarrhoeal disease control (CDD) activities is to assure the
correct treatment of child diarrhoea. This involves teaching parents how to take care of
their children during and after diarrhoea episodes, including when to seek help from
health professionals.
Radio Guide: A Guide to Using Radio Spots in National CDD Programmes !40.
The keys to effective promotion via radio are creativity and repetition. Although there
are various types of radio materials that could be used to support CDD programmes,
both of these criteria are best fulfilled by using radio spots. For these reasons, the CDD
Programme and the HealthCom Project, Academy for Educational Development, have
developed a manual called Radio guide: A guide to using radio spots in national CDD
programmes.
Video
IDRC communications division (1986) Prescription for health (Motion Pictures and
Video Recordings) / IDRC Canada, - video (23 min.): VHS, Pal and Users guide
The only video that can be used with ministers as well as villagers. This video promotes
personal hygiene and community practices that can help break the cycle of infection
caused by polluted surroundings and poor sanitary habits, even when safe drinking
water is available. Emphasis is laid on women and health. Extensive animation has been
used to illustrate clearly the path of disease and to unify the message for audiences of
diverse cultural backgrounds. The film is aimed primarily at health care workers, and
water and sanitation engineers and technicians, and can also be used as a prime source
of information for policy makers. Excellent use of animation.
The practical users manual repeats the key messages on safe water and latrine use,
hand washing and use of Oral rehydration solution and provides guidance for field
workers to facilitate discussion with the audience. It is one of the best examples of
effective use of a video together with face-to-face communication in the water, hygiene
and sanitation sector.
39.
40.
http://www.who.int/chd/publications/cdd/radio.htm
http://www.rehydrate.org/resources/who.htm
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The video is available in French, Spanish and many languages in Asia as well as in
Kiswahili through either a Canadian Embassy or High Commission, or a UNICEF field
office.
Available for $ 34.95 inc. shipping and handling through: Precision Transfer
Technologies Inc, 22 Hamilton Avenue North, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1Y 1B6, Fax:
+613 729 5517, e-mail: salesott@precisiontransfer.com.
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries -NL; Netherlands.
Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management ; Netherlands
Information Service (1993) Troubled water : water management in the next century
(Motion Pictures and Video Recordings).
The Hague, The Netherlands, Netherlands Information Service, - Video (18 min.): VHS.
Available through local offices of the Television Trust for the Environment. !41.
This video was made to show how the planet's health and welfare may deteriorate in the
next century if water resources are not managed better and more efficiently at local,
national and international level. It discusses the availability, quality and quantity of
water resources in the form of a CNN-type of documentary broadcast on September 6,
2018, interrupted by comic water-commercials. Excellent use of humour.
41.
http://www.tve.org/mp6/searchresults.cfm?l=e
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TOP Web sites
Advocacy tool kit From Knowledge to Action.
http://www.psr.org/dwtoolkit.pdf
How to become a safe drinking water advocate. A safe drinking water advocacy kit,
from the Physicians For Social Responsibility (USA).
Advocacy - what is it all about?,
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/why_advocacy/155.asp?keyword=advocacy%
20toolkit (as PDF only)
A guide to advocacy work in the water and sanitation sector.
The most recent valuable resource for anyone working in the water and sanitation sector
who wants to undertake advocacy work. The Sourcebook aims to explain the different
advocacy tools, provide practical examples of advocacy work, provide information on
key policy actors and processes and how to influence them at international levels and to
provide information on agencies, networks and institutions engaged in advocacy work
in the freshwater sector. See also Resources section.
You may also want to have a look at WaterAids Corporate Advocacy Strategy, also on
the website, under the section, How we work. This is an example of how and why an
organisation has included advocacy in its own approaches to WSS.
Communication for Development News. Publishes online and by e-mail.
http://www.comminit.com/commfordevnews.html
Contains summaries of news articles pertaining to using communication for
development purposes.
The Communication Initiative (global forces...local choices...critical
voices...telling stories)
http://www.comminit.com
Is an excellent searchable database on all components of communication for
development. Partners involved: The Rockefeller Foundation, BBC World Service
Trust, The CHANGE Project, CIDA, The European Union, Exchange, FAO, Johns
Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs, The Panos Institute, Soul
City, The Synergy Project, UNAIDS, UNICEF, USAID, WHO.
The Drumbeat
http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat.html
Contains selected programmes, data, materials, people, and media sources from
communication, development and change organisations.
Making Waves
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/research_centre/ default.asp
Civil society advocacy on international water policy documents the seminar organised
by WaterAid in December 2000, on behalf of the UK Water Network, in response to the
need for a greater understanding of freshwater policy making institutions, and to
strengthen the NGO voice in the policy debate. The aim of the seminar was to provide
information on key institutions that shape freshwater policy globally, regionally and
nationally, and to share experiences and knowledge of ways to influence them.
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Resources on Participatory Approaches and Communication for Water and

Sanitation Programming
http://www.irc.nl.themes/communication/comres/index.html
Annotated references, by Jong, D. de, Mendonca, V. & Luciani, S. Advocacy and
Communication Strategies Working Group, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative
Council/IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and UNICEF, 1997, provides
annotated publications, training materials, courses and workshops and a selection of
Web sites relevant to the area of communication and participatory approaches. The
second part contains annotated materials divided in categories related to the planning
and implementation of advocacy and communication for improved water and
environmental sanitation programmes.
World Water Day
http://www.worldwaterday.org/advocacy/index.html
A practical Water for Development advocacy guide for World Water Day 2002There is
also one available on the theme of Water and Health Advocacy for World Water Day
2001. This site maintained by IRC also contains content guides, photos and events and
an archive of WWD since 1994.
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Discussion list on Social Marketing
Alan Andreasen, the Social Marketing Institute US (since 1999), e-mail:
andreasa@georgetown.edu, Andreasen is running an e-mail-based discussion list on
social marketing. It is US dominated, but interesting.
The Drumbeat Listserver
Warren Feek from Communication Initiative, US, e-mail: wfeek@comminit.com.
Feek running an e-mail-based list server The Drum Beat (see also under Web sites)
Freshwater Action Network
Danielle Morley, e-mail: info@freshwateraction.net, co-ordinates the Freshwater Action
Network, http://www.freshwateraction.net.
This site aims to improve and support the participation of NGOs and CBOs in policy
making and advocacy work around freshwater issues at major international fora. It was
centrally involved in supporting and co-ordinating NGO input into the International
Conference on Freshwater in Bonn, December 2001. It also focused its work on the
World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002, assisting NGOs active on freshwater
issues to lobby for sanitation and water during the preparatory committee meetings, and
co-ordinated NGO participation in the Water Dome. It is also involved in preparatory
work for the 3rd World Water Forum, which. present opportunities for NGOs to focus
international attention and resources on key freshwater issues. In the long term the
network can act as a forum for coordinated NGO campaigns on water and target other
institutions or issues at different levels. It will also continue to help build NGO capacity
for international advocacy work and campaigning.
Water advocacy Yahoo group
Dick de Jong from IRC. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wateradvocacy
De Jong has since early 2001 moderated an informal water Advocacy Yahoo group with
38 members who exchange advocacy news and resources.
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TOP Contacts
The advocacy specialists listed below spend most of their time on advocacy, social
mobilisation and communication. Although they are busy people they occasionally
answer questions on their areas of expertise.
The Communication Initiative
http://www.comminit.com/
The Communication Initiative is a partnership of development organisations seeking to
support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for
positive international development.
The C.I. strategy includes provision of real-time information on communication and
development experiences and thinking, facilitating horizontal linkages between people
engaged in communication action, peer commentary on programmes and strategies and
taking opportunities to promote strategic thinking on communication and development
issues and problems.
Contact person: Warren Feek
The Communication Initiative
5148 Polson Terrace
Victoria
British Columbia
Canada V8Y 2C4
Phone: 1-(250)-658-6372
Fax: 1-(250)-658-1728
E-mail: wfeek@comminit.com
http://www.freshwateraction.net/
The Freshwater Action Network is a global network of environmental and
developmental Non-governmental and Community Based Organisations working to
strengthen civil society's participation in international water policy formulation. %%
FAN's advocacy efforts are geared towards helping members of the network understand
international water policies and to co-operate together across the water sectors for more
effective and influential participation in freshwater policy making and implementation.
Contact person: Danielle Morley
c/o Water Aid
Prince Consort House
27-29 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7UB
Phone: +44 20 7793 4522
Fax: +44 20 7793 4545
E-mail: daniellemorley@wateraid.org.uk
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GWA (Gender and Water Alliance)

http://216.198.199.82/english/main.asp
The Gender and Water Alliance is a network of 133 organisations and individuals from
around the world with an independent steering committee. It is an Associated
Programme of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) funded by the governments of the
Netherlands and United Kingdom. Because of the pooled experience and skills
contained in this network, the GWA offers a mix of information and knowledge sharing
activities such as electronic conferencing, a web site, advocacy leaflets and video,
annual reports, capacity building and pilot programmes.
Contact person: Rose Lidonde
Contact person: Niala Maharaj
GWA
c/o IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
P.O. Box 2869
2601 CW Delft
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 219 2943
Fax: +31 15 219 0955
E-mail: R.A.Lidonde@lboro.ac.uk
E-mail: nmaharaj@chello.nl
IRC International Water and Sanitation centre
http://www.irc.nl
IRC is an independent, non-profit organization by and linked with the Netherlands
Government, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations
Childrens Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Water Supply
and Sanitation Collaborative Council. IRC facilitates the sharing, promotion and use of
knowledge so that governments, professionals and organizations can better support poor
men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation
services they will use and maintain (new mission statement 2002). Using its web site,
documentation, publications, IRC advocates change and aims to improve the
information and knowledge base of the sector.
Contact person: Dick de Jong
IRC International Water and Sanitation centre
P.O. Box 2869
2601 CW Delft
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 21 929 62
Fax: +31015 21 909 55
E-mail: jong@irc.nl
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NGO (Non-governmental organizations associated with the United Nations)

http://www.ngo.org/index2.htm
The Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Section of the Department of Public
Information (DPI) at United Nations Headquarters serves as the liaison between the
Department and NGO associated with DPI. These organizations disseminate
information about the UN to their constituency, thereby building knowledge of and
support for the Organization at the grassroots level. Currently, close to 1,600 NGOs
from all regions of the world are associated with DPI.
Its aim is to help promote collaborations between NGOs throughout the world, so that
together we can more effectively partner with the United Nations and each other to
create a more peaceful, just, equitable and sustainable world for this and future
generations.
Contact person: Joseph Haider
NGO RESOURCE CENTER
Department of Public Information
Room L-1B-31
New York, NY 10017, USA
Phone: (212) 963-7233; 963-7234; 963-7078
Fax: (212) 963-2819
E-mail: ngofaic@bangla.net
UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
http://www.un.org/esa/desa.htm
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs was created as the result of the
consolidation of the Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development,
the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis and the
Department for Development Support and Management Services.%%
The main objective of the Department's programme is to promote broad-based and
sustainable development through a multidimensional and integrated approach to
economic, social, environmental, population and gender related aspects of development.
The Departments functions represent a crucial interface between global policies and
national action, and between research and operational activities, thereby facilitating the
translation of international agreements to strategies at the country level, and feeding
back lessons learned and experiences gained from the country level into the
international policy development process.
In implementing the programme, the Department will also aim at strengthening linkages
between the United Nations and civil society and at developing innovative means of
cooperation and modes of partnership in areas of common interest.
Contact person: Eirah Gorre-Dale
Water, Natural Resources and SIDS Branch Division for Sustainable Development
E-mail: gorre-dale@un.org
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WaterAid
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/
WaterAid is a charity dedicated to helping people escape the stranglehold of poverty
and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation. WaterAid works in
partnership with local organisations in 15 countries in Africa and Asia to help poor
communities establish sustainable water supplies and latrines, close to home. WaterAid
also works to influence governments water and sanitation policies to serve the interests
of vulnerable people.
Contact person: Belinda Calaguas
WaterAid
Prince Consort House
27-29 Albert Embankment
London
SE1 7UB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 7793 4500
Fax: +44 20 7793 4545
E-mail: BelindaCalaguas@Wateraid.org.uk
Water Policy International
http://www.waterpolicy.com/
Water Policy International is a small private company which provides expert advise on
water resources management reform including policy development and process
management.
Activities include advice in policy development and implementation, legislative reform
and institutional rationalisation. Areas of operation include national governments and
international river basins mainly in Africa.
Clients include the bi-lateral agencies such as Sida and DFID, a variety of UN agencies
and the World Bank.
Depending upon the circumstances, expertise in a wide range of related services can be
brought together to meet the needs of most circumstances.
Contact person: Len Abrams
Water Policy International
293 Anderson Street
Brooklyn, Pretoria
South Africa
Phone: +27 12 362 0522
Fax: +27 12 362 3582
E-mail: Len.Abrams@waterpolicy.com
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WHO (World Health Organization)

http://www.who.int/about/en/
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was
established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the
attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in
WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Contact person: Everold Hosein & Kraig Klaudt
Control Prevention and Eradication Department
WHO Headquarters
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland
Phone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11
Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111
Telex: 415 416
Telegraph: UNISANTE GENEVA
E-mail: Everold@aol.com & klaudtk@who.int
WSSCC (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council)
http://www.wsscc.org/
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council is a leading international
organisation that enhances collaboration in the water supply and sanitation sector to
accelerate the achievement of sustainable water, sanitation and waste management
services to all people, with special attention to the unserved poor, by enhancing
collaboration among developing countries and external support agencies and through
concerted action programmes.
Contact person: Ashoke Chatterjee
Secretariat for the WSSCC
International Environment House
Chemin des Anmones 9
1219 Chtelaine
Geneva
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 917 8657
Fax: +41 22 917 8084
E-mail: aschat@blazenetonline.com
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TOP Courses and conferences

There are many communication for development courses offered by universities from
all overt the world. A good place to start is The Communication Initiatives listing
[http://www.comminit.com/university.html] of university and other academic
institutions that offer programmes related to communication, change and development.
Most are master programmes. The author and reviewer of this TOP can recommend two
short courses:
Integrated Marketing Communication for International Health and Development,
New York University (NYU), New York, USA.
http://www.nyu.edu/education/summer/imc
In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Communicable
Diseases/Control-Prevention-Eradication Department, Social Mobilisation and Training
Unit NYU provides this short course (3 & weeks) every year in July. Participants
learn to apply the techniques of Integrated Marketing Communication in the strategic
planning of development communication programmes. A major feature of this
programme is a facilitated workshop in which participants complete an integrated
marketing communication plan for a specific behaviour change programme in health or
any other development sector.
The cost of the programme, excluding transportation, housing, meals and incidentals is
US$ 2,500.00.
The author of this TOP followed this excellent course in the summer of 2001 and
produced together with a group of high level health professionals from Bhutan a draft
marketing communication plan on handwashing for the country.
Advocacy for NGOs
BOND, UK
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/training.html
A more general two-month training programme on advocacy for NGOs is offered in the
UK by British Overseas NGOs for Development )BOND. The reviewer followed it in
1999. This is a network of more than 260 UK based voluntary organisations working in
international development and development education. It advocates mainly on the role
of UK NGOs as development actors, and on their relationships with other actors.
Useful guidance notes were developed from the first BOND advocacy training course,
'An Introduction to Advocacy'. They are designed to be used as training tool outside of
the training environment. They highlight key elements of the training and should help
readers to 'sell' the idea of advocacy in their own organisations. They can be used either
as a set or individually. They cover:
1. The what and the why of advocacy
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guidwhatandwhy.html
2. Participative advocacy
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guidpart.html
3. Getting the message across
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guidmessage.html
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4. Evaluating advocacy work

http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guideval.html (includes Belinda Calaguas
action plan for the first 6 months of WaterAids advocacy plan for the VISION
21: Water for People and World Water Forum)
5. Partnerships with the Private Sector
http://www.bond.org.uk/advocacy/guidprivate.html
The Advocacy Institute in the USA provides an international capacity building
programme [http://www.advocacy.org/capacity.htm] focusing on leadership
development and social justice.
Major international events [http://www.wsscc.org/events/index.php] for planning
advocacy on key topics are updated in a database by IRCs information specialist Cor
Dietvorst. Here is a selection:
World Water Day
[http://www.worldwaterday.org]
3rd World Water Forum
[http://www.worldwaterforum.org]
WSSCC 6th Global Forum
[[http://www.wsscc.org/activities/
forums/index.html]
Global
22 March 2003
Yodo River Basin (Kyoto, Shiga and

Osaka), Japan
Dakar, Senegal
16-23 Mar 2003
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Early Dec 2003
TOP Research programmes

Research for advocacy and communication programmes is mainly done in the formative
stage while the programme is being designed. It normally includes:
situation analysis,
developing the key desirable behavioural result,
current knowledge levels, attitudes and practices,
priority market segments,
SWOT analysis,
consumer needs, wants, desires,
positioning, competitors
communication situation.
Pre-testing concepts, messages and communication materials is essential to assess
whether materials actually communicate what is intended. This helps to save a lot of
wasted posters and money.
Outcomes and impact research is needed to improve program impact and to promote
sustained behaviour change.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, one of the better-known
universities in this area has a useful online research and evaluation section. The
JHU/CCP Research and Evaluation Division has developed a multi-method, applied
research system [http://www.jhuccp.org/r&e/index.stm] specifically for family planning
communication programs. The following principles guide their applied research
[http://www.jhuccp.org/r&e/codes.stm] and evaluation approaches:
The primary purpose of research and evaluation is to improve program impact and
promote sustained behaviour change.
Research and evaluation is built into every project at the beginning.
Research and evaluation results belong to the entire health community.
Coordination of research efforts increases efficiency and reduces costs.
Standardisation improves quality and comparability.
Training in research and evaluation is essential to capacity-building and
institutionalisation.
See also the section on targets, indicators and monitoring.
Here is a list of ongoing research on issues for advocacy and organisations involved in
advocacy, which can aid advocacy and communication planning. We start with issues
related to the WASH campaign of the WSSCC.
HYGIENE
1.
Sustainability in hygiene behaviour

http://www.irc.nl/projects/susthygb/index.html
This is a three year (2001 2003) research and exchange project to find out more about
the sustainability of changes in hygiene behaviour. Organisations: IRC and 8 project
partners: LSHTM (UK), GTZ (Germany), NEWAH (Nepal), COSI (Sri Lanka), SEUF
(India), WaterAid (Uganda), CWSA (Ghana) and NETWAS (Kenya). The European
Commission and the Dutch Government funds the project.
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2.
School Sanitation and Hygiene Education

http://www.irc.nl/sshe/index.html
Implementation of a school sanitation and hygiene education project. Organisations:
UNICEF's Education and Water, Environment and Sanitation Programme, IRC and
local partners in Burkina Faso, Colombia, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Viet Nam and
Zambia.
3.
The Global Initiative for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Handwashing

http://www.wsp.org/english/activities/handwashing.html
The World Bank [http://www.worldbank.org/watsan/] and the Water and Sanitation
Program (WSP) in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine (LSHTM) and other partners, launched this global initiative in 2001, as a PPP
initiative to promote handwashing in the state of Kerala, India and in Ghana.
4.
Hygiene Improvement Framework

http://www.ehproject.org/Pubs/GlobalHealth/GlobalHealthArticle.htm
Organisation: Environmental Health Project EHP), see also their Hygiene Bulletins
[http://www.ehproject.org/Library/HB/HygieneBulletinList.htm] and reports section
[http://www.ehproject.org/live/Rptspub.html]
The Hygiene Improvement Framework helps us understand the means to prevent
diarrhoea and the obstacles that must be overcome to do so.
SANITATION
5.
Sanitation Connection
http://www.sanicon.net
An Internet-based resource giving "access to accurate, reliable and up-to-date
information on technologies, institutions and financing of sanitation systems around the
world". Topics include: cost/benefit and impact analysis; ecological sanitation; finance;
fluxes to oceans; gender; health aspects; human development and poverty; hygiene
behaviour; institutional development; legislative issues; low cost sewerage; marine
pollution; monitoring and evaluation on-plot sanitation technology; participatory
approaches; pollution control; promotion of sanitation; sanitation and fresh water
ecology; sanitation for the urban poor; sanitation within integrated water management;
school sanitation; solid waste management; stormwater management; wastewater reuse;
wastewater treatment technology. Organisations: WSP, IWA, UNEP (GPA), WSSCC,
WHO, IRC, WEDC, CSIR, EW Banking, EHP, GHK, Leeds University, Maynilad
Water Services Inc., SKAT, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, UNEP
GEMS/Water Collaborating Centre, UNCHS (Habitat), WHO-CEHA;
GENDER
6.
Mainstreaming Gender in Integrated Water Resources Management

http://www.genderandwateralliance.org/english/main.asp
This is an Associated Programme of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) funded by the
governments of the Netherlands and United Kingdom. Through the pooled experience
and skills contained in this network, the GWA offers a mix of information and
knowledge sharing activities such as electronic conferencing, a web site, advocacy
leaflets and video, annual reports, capacity building and pilot programmes.
In 2002 the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) advocacy group produced a draft
training module for gender ambassadors: advocacy materials that are currently being
field tested. The training module consisting of tools and techniques to be used with the
four sets of guidelines for gender ambassadors. It focuses on the knowledge and skills
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of how to deliver the various key messages in mainstreaming gender concerns. It

includes guidelines for gender ambassadors cover lobbying, speeches, conferences and
exposure visits.
Organisations: GWA since March 2000, GWP, IRC and a network of 133 organisations
and individuals from around the world with an independent steering committee.
INSTITUTIONAL / SECTOR REFORM
Water and Sanitation Cluster of the Business Partners for Development
http://www.bpd-waterandsanitation.org
This informal global network, a World Bank initiative, aims to research and promote
tripartite partnerships involving the public and private sector and civil society. It also
aims to "identify specific lessons learned about partnerships from existing projects
which are providing responsive and affordable water services to urban poor and to
demonstrate that these can be replicated and scaled up to national and regional levels".
The site includes brief information on projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Haiti,
Indonesia and South Africa, a newsletter (Crystal Clear) and links. Organisations:
Gnrale des Eaux (Vivendi), WaterAid and the World Bank Group.
7.
8.
Water Aid has done three separate pieces of research:
Private sector participation (PSP)
http://www.wateraid.org.uk/site/in_depth/current_research/157.asp
Reforms currently ongoing in the water and sanitation sector promote the involvement
of the private sector in water supply development and service delivery in both urban and
rural areas. WaterAid's case study research on private sector participation asks the
following questions: Does PSP serve the poor? If it does, what enables it to do so and
how can these factors be strengthened? If it does not, what prevents it from doing so,
and how can these barriers be taken down? The research looks into urban and rural
experiences of private sector involvement and public utilities in 12 countries. The
research project is being done in collaboration with Tearfund and with support from
DFID.
Poverty Reduction Strategy papers (PRSP)
In 1999, the IMF and the World Bank agreed the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)
Initiative, providing debt relief to 42 countries around the world on the condition that
these countries produce a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Out of the 15
countries where WaterAid works, 11 are HIPCs. Many WaterAid country programmes
worked to influence governments to prioritise water and sanitation within the new
poverty reduction strategies, and therefore within the allocation of debt relief monies.
This scoping study on water sanitation and PRSPs, undertaken in collaboration with the
Overseas Development Institute with support from DFID, focuses on five countries.
Three other country programmes also produced critiques of the water element in the
PRSPs. They also focused on developing monitoring indicators that can be used in
assessing the impact of water and sanitation interventions on poverty.
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Financing water and sanitation

Financing water and sanitation infrastructure development and water and sanitation
service provision continues to be a huge challenge for all development actors.
WaterAids desk research provides an overview of the issue, as well as looking in more
detail at levels of official development aid allocated to water and sanitation.
9.
Institutional and Management Options Working Group (IMO-WG)

of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
http://www.wsscc.org/activ/imo/index.html
The site includes an introduction to the range of basic modes of water supply sector
organisation, links to a discussion list and background documents, and gives an
overview of research opportunities within IMO-WG. Organisations: WSSCC, IHE and
around 200 members from developed and developing countries.
10.
Public Services International (PSI)

http://www.world-psi.org
PSI, the international trade union federation for public sector workers (with a head
office in France) has developed a Water Code !42 in the water sector !43 . PSI leads an
active anti-privatisation campaign called "No profits from water!" !44 for which it has
set a special utilities site !45.
It has a separate research unit, PSIRU [http://www.psiru.org/], Public Services
International Research Unit, in the UK. PSIRU has developed set of modules !46 and
activities on privatisation and restructuring in the energy and water sectors for use by
trade union educators. One of the most active developing country PSI affiliates is
SAMWU [http://www.cosatu.org.za/samwu/], the South African Municipal Workers
Union, which has been fighting water privatisation for several years.
11.
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) and the Poor in Water and Sanitation

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/wedc/projects/ppp-poor/index.htm
This is the site of a research project (June 1999 - March 2003) managed by WEDC
(UK). It contains project outputs/reports, links to selected Internet sources and
publications.
12.
Scaling up community management of rural water supplies

http://www.irc.nl/manage/debate/econf.html
The site consolidates a wealth of resources from a participatory action research and
dissemination programme in six developing countries that ran from 1994 to 2002.
Organisations involved: IRC, WSSCC, WaterAid, PLAN International, WEDC and
SKAT.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
http://www.world-psi.org/Psi.nsf/6e53a54ebe88ae01c12568270037cc33/
79d3f35c484af37bc12568940038e9c4?OpenDocument
http://www.world-psi.org/psi.nsf/70e5a424a2513f54c 125682700403814/426
aaa164b6300d9c12568930038de7c?OpenDocument
http://www. world-psi.org/psi.nsf/07545e68a11263c0c1256873002db34e/
82dc365fef2843fac 1256890003da851?OpenDocument
http://www.psi-utilities.org/].
http://www.psiru.org/affiliates/steweduc/index.htm]
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RESOURCE CENTRE DEVELOPMENT/ CAPACITY BUILDING

13.
Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health

(WELL) http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/index.htm
WELL is a resource centre network providing services and resources in water,
sanitation and environmental health from 2001 2005 for the Department for
International Development (DFID) of the British government and partner agencies, in
collaboration with network partners [! http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/aboutwell/network-partners.htm] worldwide: AMREF (Kenya), IWSD (Zimbabwe),
NETWAS International (Kenya), TREND (Ghana), ICDDR-B (Bangladesh), SEUF
(India), EHC (Russia), CINARA (Colombia) .
WELL will provide a wide range of information and documentation services in water
supply, sanitation and environmental health. It will provide these services in partnership
with the eight selected resource centres in the South, helping to strengthen their
knowledge broking capacity. It also undertakes studies on specific topics in water,
sanitation and environmental health. Current themes for information development are:
decentralised approaches and management, environmental concerns, environmental
interventions for child survival, gender, hygiene promotion, sanitation: the unmet need.
Organisations: WEDC, LSHTM, IRC and WELL
14.
Streams of Knowledge coalition

http://www.irc.nl/stream/index.html
The mission of the global coalition of resource centres in the water and sanitation sector
is to help to close the gap on unmet needs by achieving equitable access to information,
focusing knowledge where it can help to build capacity, and promoting action learning,
whereby people benefit from their own experiences. Launched in March 2000 based on
an IRC study on what makes a good resource centre. Activities by partners include
action research, strategic sector analysis, advocacy, publishing, information support,
training, and advisory services.
Organisations involved from the South: CINARA from Colombia, CREPA from
Burkina Faso, Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD) from Zimbabwe,
NETWAS International from Kenya, Philippine Centre for Water and Sanitation
(PCWS) from the Philippines, and Training, Research and Networking for Development
(TREND) from Zimbabwe. Organisations involved from the North: IRC International
Water and Sanitation Centre from the Netherlands, Programme Solidarit Eau (pS-Eau)
from France, Swiss Centre for Development Co-operation in Technology and
Management (SKAT) from Switzerland, and the Tampere University's Institute of
Water and Environmental Engineering (TUT/IWEE) from Finland.
15.
Resource Centre Development

http://www.wsscc.org/source/bulletin/sb22.html
IRC and partners started in February 2002 a participatory Resource Centre
Development programme 2002 2006. This will collaborate on joint in-country scoping
studies, sector reviews and joint activity planning. Organisations: IRC, IWSD
(Zimbabwe), NETWAS International (Kenya), TREND (Ghana), NGO Forum WSS
(Bangladesh), SEUF (India), CINARA (Colombia), COSI (Sri Lanka), NCWSTI (South
Africa).
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16.
Water Policy and Management

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/sdwater/index.html
Supports national capacity building for sustainable water resources management, with a
focus on formulating water resources management strategies and economic analysis.
Also supports sector reform through learning partnerships with client country agencies,
World Bank operations and civil society. Key topics include institutional options, tariff
reform, economic and environmental regulation, and the design of public-private
partnerships to improve services to the poor. Organisation: World Bank Institute.
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Press cuttings
It is worth doing a regular search on advocacy using the search engine at www.irc.nl.
On 26 Jan 2003 this produced 1,858 results of which the first 37 had a greater than 70
percent relevance ranking. The Source Bulletin that IRC publishes six times per year
online [http://www.irc.nl/source] and on paper is an advocacy tool that reaches
thousands of professionals working in the water, sanitation, health, environment and
local government sector, NGOs, universities, private sector and media.
The top 5 Source Bulletin articles on advocacy are:
SOURCE Bulletin No.17, July 2001 77%
http://www.wsscc.org/source/bulletin/sb17.html]
..New WSSCC advisory group on water advocacy set up
SOURCE Bulletin No.16, May 2001 75%
...It has placed less emphasis on using the results from that research for advocacy to
influence other organisations. Now the Councils focus is changing to advocacy and
communication, influencing how other organisations work in the...
SOURCE Bulletin No.15, February 2001 73%
...Iguau Action Programme: Strong commitment for VISION 21 advocacy
SOURCE Bulletin No.18, September 2001 73%
... The advocacy challenge is that while many leaders speak about water and sanitation,
they do not always act. There is an urgent need for the water and sanitation sector to
build synergies with other sectors such as those...
SOURCE Bulletin No.22, March 2002 71%
...IRC and partners, and links to other key organisations. The WWD 2002 site provides
an updated Water for Development advocacy guide, background information about
previous years and a selection of photos. Visitors to the site can add events and
comments.
The IRCDOC [http://www.irc.nl/products/documentation/ircdoc/search.html]
bibliographical database when searched online for advocacy or awareness raising
gives 135 results.
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Top Quiz
Try it before you read the Overview Paper. Answer yes or no to each of the
following questions to see if your programme should consider getting advocacy and
communication support.
Questions
1. Political leaders do not talk about the costs and benefits of sanitation and
hygiene.
Y/N
2. We have to subsidise people to get them interested in building a household
latrine.
Y/N
3. We cant really sell latrine parts until women and men know where they are
available and what the benefits are.
Y/N
4. There are too many customers who do not pay their water bills.
Y/N
5. I am afraid that one day a negative news story will break about the programme
and I wont be ready to handle it.
Y/N
6. I must introduce hand washing, but the women will never accept it here.
Y/N
If you answered yes to one of these questions, adding advocacy/ communication skills
might help. You can start by contacting one of the organizations mentioned under TOP
Contacts.
The WSSCC regularly has polls online at http://www.wsscc.org/poll/index.php
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Annex 1: Two water and sanitation examples

This research includes a section Environmental Health including water, sanitation and
hygiene education and one on interventions using mass media.!47 This contains
examples from water sanitation and hygiene. Two of these are listed below:
Example 1:
Curtis, V., Kanki, B., Cousens, S., Diallo, I., Kpozehouen, A., Sangare, M. and
Nikiema, M. (2001) Evidence of behaviour change following a hygiene promotion
programme in Burkina Faso. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 79, 518-527.
REF ID 8859.
Target Group/Country: Carers of small children in rural communities in Burkina Faso.
Methodology: The programme was designed following extensive research on local
practices, motivation and facilities using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Community volunteers carried out monthly house-to-house visits and community
meetings. Health centre staff were trained in participatory discussion and gave talks at
health centres. A youth theatre group performed a comic play each week about
cleanliness and the need to dispose of stools. A series of 12 comic radio spots with an
evolving story was developed, tested and broadcast in local languages and French by
local radio stations. A curriculum and materials for six primary school hygiene lessons
were developed, teachers trained and provided with lesson guides, 6 posters and a box
of soap and buckets.
Evaluation: There were no controls (because of the use of mass media) and a time series
approach was used for evaluation. Two population surveys recorded the coverage of the
programme among target audiences (mothers of children aged 0-35 months). Four
surveys were carried out: three prior to the programme and one in 1998 (after the
programme had been running for 3 years), using structured observation of hygiene
behaviours of young children and their carers and recording a three hour period on a
pre-coded form.
Impact: After the programme had run for 3 years, three-quarters of mothers targeted had
had contact with programme activities. Half could cite the two main messages of the
programme correctly. Although the safe disposal of children's stools changed little
between 1995 and 1998 (80% pre-intervention, 84% post- intervention), hand-washing
with soap after cleaning a child's bottom rose from 13% to 31%(p<0.01). The
proportion of mothers who washed their hands with soap after using the latrine
increased from 1% to 17% (p<0.001). Lack of a control is the main limit to the validity
of this study. Even with the pre-test studies the authors conclude that it is not possible to
show from the data that the change in washing hands after using the latrine was a
change from the underlying trend. It is unfortunate that the data on coverage was not
related to the impact - to show a relative take-up of behaviours by those persons who
reported hearing the messages from radio or volunteers.
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Example 2:
Montazeri, A. and McEwen, J. (1998) Health education campaign on environmental
health: a pilot study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research 8, 3541.Ref ID : 8489.
Target Group/Country: Residents in Teheran, Iran.
Intervention: Health education campaign on environmental health consisting of
billboards with three illustrations asking people to (1) keep flies away from food, (2) to
use a dustbin with a lid and (3) to wash vegetables and fruit with chlorinated water.
Evaluation: A sample of 183 adults aged 18 to 56 years was shown a picture related to
the campaign (illustrating keeping flies away from foodstuffs, using dustbins with lids,
and chlorinating vegetables and fruits), and then filled in a short questionnaire. The
main objective of the study was to measure recall rates.
Impact: The results showed that recalls were high (73%), 53% of respondents were
either "very positive" or "positive" about the campaign, and almost all participants
perceived the main idea of the campaign correctly. The study findings showed some
significant associations between demographic variables, recall and perception of the
campaign. The study concludes that health education campaigns are useful tools for
launching environmental health related topics and the focus should be on getting the
attention of as many of the target population as possible
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Advocacy for Water, Environmental

Sanitation and Hygiene

Author: Dick de Jong (IRC)

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Advocacy for water, environmental sanitation and hygiene

Understanding advocacy, social mobilisation and communication

Why this theme matters

Concepts, lessons, good examples

Implications at different levels

Targets, indicators and monitoring

TOP Books, papers, articles, manuals

TOP Web sites and electronic networks

TOP Courses and conferences

TOP Research programmes

Two water and sanitation examples

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Thematic Overview Papers (TOPs): an effective way

Contents of each TOP

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Advocacy for water, environmental sanitation and

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A set of examples of successful single issue-based advocacy campaigns (page 15) is

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Understanding advocacy, social mobilisation and

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Figure.1 Communication planning process (McKee, 1992)

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

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Programme communication is the process of identifying, segmenting and targeting

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Why this theme matters

The silent emergency

Women and children suffer the most

Sanitation is not a dirty word

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Poverty, sickness and death toll: shameful and scandalous

Why do politicians and decision-makers turn a blind eye?

Crisis of management and political will

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Management of the campaign

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Noordwijk Conference 1994

THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Integrated Water Resources Management

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THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Concepts, lessons, good examples

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THEMATIC OVERVIEW PAPER

Contributing to the National Rural Water Strategy: Uganda

Contributing to the National Water and Sanitation Strategy: Zambia

The Mole Conference Series: Ghana

More flexible government subsidies for sanitation: India

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Implications at different levels

Steps to create a strategy for advocacy and communication

What behavioural change does this involve?

Who are the target groups? (whose behaviour needs to change?)