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New Resource Global Handwashing Day 2018 Planner’s Guide available in French and Spanish!

September 18, 2018

The Global Handwashing Day 2018 Planner’s Guide is now available in French and Spanish. You can access it on our Global Handwashing Day resources page here. For questions about planning a celebration, please e-mail us at contact@globalhandwashing.org. Once you’ve designed your Global Handwashing Day campaign or event, let […]

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Upcoming Event Global Handwashing Day 2018: External Briefing Call

August 24, 2018

Global Handwashing Day is coming October 15! This year’s theme, “Clean Hands – a recipe for health,” emphasizes the links between handwashing, and proper food hygiene and nutrition. Connecting handwashing to an existing habit – like a meal – is a great way to form […]

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New Post United Purpose and PZ Cussons Celebrate GHD in Nigeria

February 5, 2018

For the fourth consecutive year United Purpose and the PZ Cussons Foundation organized Nigeria’s largest Global Handwashing Day (GHD) campaign. This campaign was one of the largest GHD campaigns in the world. In total, more than 46,000 people washed their hands with soap during our […]

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New Post Global Handwashing Day in Cambodia: Cleaner Hands for Brighter Futures

December 28, 2017

A double celebration of the Global Handwashing Day 2017 in Cambodia at Ang Meas Tani Primary School in Kampot province By Alex Winkscha, Regional Coordinator for Cambodia and Lao PDR with the GIZ Regional Fit for School Program. Originally published on 26 December 2017 by GIZ. […]

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New Post Case Study: SpaTap Celebrates Global Handwashing Day

December 4, 2017

Schools are critical places for children to learn good handwashing habits, and proper school handwashing keeps children healthy and ready to learn. This case study from GHP member SpaTap shows one creative way to bring handwashing stations to schools to encourage handwashing on Global Handwashing […]

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Upcoming Event Celebrating Global Handwashing Day 2017 on Facebook Live

October 24, 2017

The Global Handwashing members and partners are celebrating handwashing all month on the Global Handwashing Day Facebook page. Be sure to ‘like’ Global Handwashing Day on Facebook. Then, join us as we go live with handwashing champions to talk about why handwashing with soap is […]

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New Resource Global Waters Radio podcast: Incentivizing Handwashing Habit Formation

October 13, 2017

Following the GHP & USAID webinar “Norms, nudges, or addiction? Understanding drivers for handwashing behavior change” on September 12th, Global Waters Radio recently spoke with USAID’s Nga Nguyen and Harvard University’s Dr. Reshmaan Hussam about incentivizing handwashing behavior change. Learn more about the discussion between Nga […]

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New Post WSSCC webinar series #2 on October 24: Approaches to Promote Handwashing & Sanitation Behaviour Change in LMICs

October 5, 2017

Join WSSCC on October 24th for their second in a two-part webinar series on interventions to promote handwashing and sanitation for the launch of the recent WSSCC/3ie systematic review, Approaches to Promote Handwashing and Sanitation Behaviour Change in Low and Middle Income Countries. Register here […]

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New Post World Vision & Sesame Workshop will host a Global Handwashing Day webinar on October 11

October 5, 2017

Join World Vision and their partners at Sesame Workshop on October 11 for a Global Handwashing Day webinar to learn about the WASHUp! programme, a school-based program using learning and teaching materials to educate children and families about positive health behaviors related to WASH. Learn more and register […]

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Upcoming Event Diarrhea Innovations Group will host a global Twitter relay on October 11

October 5, 2017

On October 11, PATH’s Diarrhea Innovations Group will host a global Twitter relay about innovations to defeat diarrheal disease (#OvertakeDD). The Global Handwashing Partnership will participate in the relay at 2 pm EDT/11 am PDT. Groups not formally participating in the relay  can hook into […]

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