Providing sanitation services in Vietnam

Project locations:

Ninh Binh: Ninh Thang Commune, 5 villages.

Thanh Hoa Province: Quang Thai Commune, 5 villages.

Thai Nguyen, Yen Trach Commune, Yen Pour, 2 villages

Customer Name / Capital: Water and Sanitation Program, World Bank

Start date: 10/2000

Completion date: 2/2001

Project brief description:

Training to change ingrained habits of thought and life of the ancient people.

Training, skills training, institutional experience - Communication - Education - Project Management and maintain the sustainability of the project.

Raising awareness of the relationship between changes in hygiene practices and sanitation awareness of people involved with each other?

What factors promote and encourage people to build separate toilets?

What to do to ensure the sustainability of improved sanitation services?

Describe the services which Consulting contractor performs:

Preliminary evaluation of the sanitation situation through available data of the Ministry of Health to find out the rate of community toilets use high compared with general coverage of the country. The team coordination skills to figure out why this community coverage toilet higher other communities. Group field research methods used to meet specific, observation, interviews, and activities based on the method of assessment of community participation (MPA), rural appraisal methods (PRA), and evaluation methods hygiene behavior change in method of community involvement (PHAST)

12 community-depth study to understand the influence of geography (mountains, plains and coastal areas) to hygiene practices, related to: demand, level of coverage, the ability to access, awareness and hygiene habits using household latrines. Training for different subjects in the community to benefit from projects average between 150-180 participants to discuss the evaluation process (about 63 households, which account for some 50% of adults )

Analyze and process data and writing the final report. The workshop was held in Laos.