Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam - Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : progress report (July 1-December 31, 2009)

This reporting period marks the beginning of the final year of implementation of the Global Scaling up Handwashing with Soap (HWWS) project. It represents a critical phase, a time for the teams not only to continue intensifying behavior change interventions, but also to establish HWWS promotion as a central component in national and local efforts to improve children's health and nutrition in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project is also on track in strengthening the enabling environment to help sustain HWWS interventions beyond the life of the project. Notable progress has been made around efforts to integrate HWWS activities into existing national, regional and local programs and services, to replicate the approach within and outside the four countries, and to secure national and local-level funding for HWWS activities.