Wash’Em and the COVID-19 response

Wash’Em is a process for rapidly designing handwashing promotion programmes in crises and outbreaks. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic we cautioned against using Wash’Em in its standard face-to face form because of concerns about staff and community safety. Instead we developed a COVID-19 guide with activity explainers, webinars and videos, all of which were focused on low-cost activities that could feasibly be implemented across a range of settings in the early stage of the response.

This Wash'Em brief on COVID-19 responses features some innovative work from Yayasan Plan International Indonesia's Water for Women project that encouraged community engagement and rapid uptake of handwashing as part of their COVID-19 response activities

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