Approval Date: 2012

Hygiene promotion includes strategies that encourage or facilitate a process whereby people assess, make considered choices, demand, effect, and sustain hygienic and healthy behaviors. This encompasses personal, domestic, and environmental hygiene practices and any action or initiative taken to erect barriers to diseases. In this strategy paper, the 'Hygiene Promotion' is considered particularly related to water supply and sanitation. The national hygiene promotion strategy objective is to promote sustainable use of improved water supply and sanitation infrastructures and to create an enabling environment ensuring comprehensive hygiene promotion and practices to reduce water and sanitation-related diseases.