The
Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap
Progress
updates
Below
you can learn about the history of the initiative and the
activities undertaken at global and country level. Download
our progress reports, minutes
of the global team meetings and cross-country
workshops reports.
How
did it start?
- BASICS
(Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival)
showed that PPPs to promote handwashing work.
- Professionals
from the World Bank and other organizations followed ideas
generated out of the April 2000 World Bank Forum on Hygiene
and Sanitation.
- The
informal team acknowledged existing approaches were not
fully effective and scalable...
- ...
and that private sector expertise in marketing and behavior
change was required.
- Demand
from Ghana and Kerala was expressed.
During
the first phase of activities (February 2001 to June 2003),
the global team has...
- Set
up an international advisory group.
- Documented
and published the USAID-supported Central America PPP for
handwashing project.
- Carried
out a study of the experience of PPPs in the health sector.
- Studied
the world market for soap.
- Worked
with the three largest multinational soap companies to form
global partnerships.
- Raised
funds to implement a global handwashing program in several
countries (The Bank-Netherlands Water Partnership approved
to support the PPP handwashing initiative as a flagship
project)
- Advocated
for the handwashing cause at the World
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in
September 2002 and at the 3rd
World Water Forum in Kyoto in March 2003.
- Established
an agreement with UNICEF to develop the first phase of the
initiative in Nepal.
- Responded
to demand from new countries, Peru, Senegal, Madagascar
and China.
- Provided
continuous technical assistance to country teams notably
for research design and analysis
- Organized
a videoconference to review the Ghana communications strategy.
- Prepared
a note on strategic engagement with private sector soap
companies and evaluated the global partnership.
- Supported
a cross-country workshop in Ghana to provide orientation
to the new national coordinators and share experience.
and
country teams have:
- Built
local public-private partnerships involving the Kerala Rural
Water Supply Agency in India, the Community Water Supply
Agency in Ghana, and in both countries, industry associations,
industrial and small-scale manufacturers, ministries of
health, water and education, donors/external support agencies
(ESAs) and NGOs. Governments and ESA contribute funds and
staff; the private sector provides in-kind resource and
marketing expertise.
- Recruited
National Coordinators in Ghana, Peru, Senegal and Madagascar.
- Started
work in Nepal with the lead from UNICEF.
- Set
up National Steering Committees in Ghana and Kerala.
- Conducted
handwashing behavior and soap market studies in Ghana and
Kerala.
- Designed
Kerala and Ghana business and financial plans to detail
programs' justification, plan and budget.
- Participated
in the cross-country learning and sharing workshop in Ghana.
- in
Ghana, developed the communications strategy to promote
handwashing.
Global
meetings
We are
monitoring and extracting lessons from handwashing initiatives
in Ghana,
Nepal,
Peru,
and Senegal.
Three global workshops have taken place so far and the team
met on several other occasions to discuss topics ranging from
governance of the partnerships, the role of the private sectors,
progress and plans. Below are links to the various meeting
proceedings.
PPP for Handwashing Global Learning Workshop, March 7-8, 2005. Washington, D.C.
Workshop Report
Session Presentations (I)
Session Presentations (II)
Meeting of the Global PPPHWI, November 25-26, 2002
Annexes: Soap
Modeling Discussion
on M&E Motivation
models
Global
Experience Sharing Workshop, May 9-10, 2002
Partnership Meeting, November, 2001
PPP Handwashing Clinic, May 9, 2001 (World Bank Infrastructure
Forum)
Brainstorming Workshop, May
7, 2001
PPP in Handwashing Meeting, March 15, 2001
Cross-country
workshops
First
Public-Private Handwashing Initiative Cross-Country Sharing
and Orientation Workshop, Accra, Ghana, May 14-17, 2003
Annexes
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