The TOOLKITs have been developed in recognition of the growing need to address the issue of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS at programme and project level.

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Hygiene and sanitation interventions are more commonly encountered as after thoughts riding on the backs of water supply programs. Little priority is accorded to their implementation and even less is given to their monitoring and evaluation which would go a long way in improving our understanding of what facilitates or hinders changes in hygiene behaviour. This is contained in the report that summarises the findings of the Uganda study on sustainability of hygiene behaviour changes undertaken from 2001 to 2003.

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Corruption and abuse of office affects the tendering process, supervision of work, threatens business viability, and undermines quality of work. These were some of the observations of the study to develop a strategy for private sector support in Uganda. The study arises from a long-term awareness of weaknesses in the private sector and its operating environment, and is an attempt to address some of the key issues revealed by the fieldwork and wider discussions.

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Sanitation does not get enough attention. This was one of the findings of the study to assess the impact of the Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC), a new Budget Support Instrument that has been in operation since July 2001, and since 2002 under the 5-year Operational Plan for the Rural Water and Sanitation. The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of the PRSC Budget Support Instrument with the view of obtaining a feedback from key stakeholders

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The achievement of sustainability under Kigezi Diocese Water and Sanitation Programme was recognised to be challenging and the focus of the sustainability study. There were two main objectives for the study, first, a desire to understand what accounts for Programme’s apparent success in achieving functional sustainability and second, that the good practice developed over 20 years of trial and error, learning and success, community and institutional growth should be explained, interpreted and promoted to a wider audience. The study findings provide a good understanding of factors for sustainability to all development project planners and service providers.

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At district level, there is a demonstrated lack of access to the National Gender Policy document. Gender mainstreaming is still conceptualised as a vertical program. This is one of the findings of the Gender Mainstreaming Study. The purpose of the study being to assess whether the water and sanitation programmes in the districts have effectively mainstreamed gender, and to identify policy gaps. The study was carried out in 11 districts of Pader, Lira, Apac, Soroti, Mbale, Iganga, Kayunga, Nakasongola, Wakiso, Mbarara, and Kasese. The report provides key information for district and subcounty water and sanitation programme planners and implementers

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The Uganda Sanitation and Hygiene 2005 Rapid Situation Assessment was the first of the three stages toward the development of the Medium Term Operation Plan (MTOP). The second stage being the development of a 10 year strategy for Improved Sanitation and Hygiene (ISH) and the third being the development of the MTOP. The assessment aimed at among others, reviewing the sanitation content of present strategies and practices in the sector, presenting and if possible confirming sanitation coverage, analysing institutional arrangements for sanitation and hygiene promotion, and presenting financial expenditure on sanitation and hygiene promotion.

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This is the fourth annual performance report for the Ugandan Water and Sanitation sector. It presents a detailed analysis of the status and performance of the sector in FY 2005/6. Produced by the Ministry of Water and Environment, the report has major inputs from the Environmental Health Division, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, the Ministry of Education and Sports and the Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET). The Report draws together and analyses extensive information from the four sub-sectors, namely, the rural water and sanitation, urban water and sanitation, water for production and water resources. The report is beneficial to all sector players at national and district levels as well as development partners. The abstract presented reflects more on the sanitation aspects of the report.

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Although 84% of the adults recognized the need to wash hands with soap after using the toilet, only 14% were observed to do so. Overall, 57% washed their hands in some way. Though handwashing offered safety from illness, the concern was not for child diarrhea but for life-threatening cholera. These are some of the findings of the Formative and Baseline Survey on Handwashing with Soap. Commissioned by the National Sanitation Working Group, the main purpose of this research was to provide insights to the design of an effective communication programme to promote handwashing with soap at key junctures among the groups most susceptible to diarrhoeal diseases. These include children less than five years of age through their caretakers, and school-aged children (6-13 years).

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The mission of Environmental Health Division (EHD) of the Ministry of Heath is to contribute to the reduction of morbidity, mortality and disability among the people of Uganda through improvements in housing, use of safe water, food hygiene promotion, waste management and control of vectors/ vermin. The Environmental Health Profile provides a detailed description of the organisation, roles, management, and administration, and institutional linkages of the EHD. The document is useful for all sector players who need to know the roles the EHD in improving Environmental Health in general and sanitation and hygiene promotion in particular.

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