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Behaviour Change for COVID19 Response and Social Outcomes

The 31st Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) meeting took place from 16 – 20 August 2021. It was organised by the SuSanA Secretariat with support and contributions from SuSanA Partners, Members, Working Groups and Regional Chapters. SEI experts gave presentations on gender and social equality impacts with a focus on insights for behavioural change.

19 August 2021
Sweden and Online

SuSanA offers a virtual platform for meetings and exchange, thus the annual SuSanA Meeting usually takes place in conjunction with the Stockholm World Water Week. The regional chapters hosted several sessions that reflected on specific sanitation related topics or challenges from the regions between 16 to 20 August. SEI experts were speakers in the session below.

Behaviour Change for COVID19 Response and Social Outcomes – 4:00-5:30 pm CEST

Session outline

  • Welcome, objectives and agenda – Dr Om Prasad Gautam, Co-lead, SuSanA Behaviour Change Working Group-13
  • Hand Hygiene for All Initiatives and its one-year progress – Ms Janita Bartell, UNICEF
  • Multi-country Hygiene Response to COVID19: learnings from scale operations and evaluation – Dr Om Prasad Gautam, WaterAid
  • HBCC initiative in multiple countries and its key achievements – Ms Lisa Rudge, FCDO, UK
  • COVID19 Hygiene Hub and its one-year progress – Dr Robert Dreibelbis, LSHTM
  • Annual Think Tank event on hand hygiene and key recommendations from the event – Ms Aarin Palomares, Global Handwashing Partnership
  • Reviewing literature on gender and social equality impacts of WASH interventions: insights for behavioural change – Dr Biljana Macura, SEI
  • Question and Answer and Discussion

Focus of the discussion: “Changing behaviours for generations” – Dr Sarah Dickin, Co-lead, SuSanA Behaviour Change Working Group-13

Collaborators: SuSanA Behaviour Change Working Group 13, WaterAid, SEI, WHO/UNICEF – hand hygiene for all initiative, FCDO, LSHTM/Hygiene Hub, Global Handwashing Partnership.

Download the session presentation for more information.

Featuring

Biljana Macura
Biljana Macura

Senior Research Fellow and Team Lead

SEI Headquarters

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Video: SuSanA / YouTube

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