Course Info

• Objectives

  After completion of the course you will be able to:

  • Explain behavioral change and advocacy concepts and models in the practice and delivery of safely-managed non-sewered sanitation in urban environments
  • Apply knowledge from interdisciplinary social science case examples to practically effect sanitation behavioral change and advocacy
  • Develop non-sewered sanitation behavioral change and advocacy intervention strategies for a diverse range of populations and contexts
• Syllabus

  This course covers the following topics:

  • Introduction to behaviour and advocacy
  • Behaviour determinants
  • Behaviours across the sanitation service chain
  • Transitions towards sustainable sanitation
  • Sanitation behaviour and advocacy strategies
  • Behaviour change techniques
  • Behaviour change models, theory of change
  • Sanitation behaviour change design
  • Advocacy intervention design
  • Occupational health and safety of sanitation workers
• Delivery method

  Each course in this series consists of video lectures, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, and assignments. In principle, each video presentation has its own complementary presentation slides. Some parts of the course also include exercises and/or assignments. Please note that this course is free, open access, and does not include guidance, exams, assessment, or certificate. As a rule of thumb, if you spend 8 hours per week following this course, you should be able to complete the curriculum within 8 weeks.

  Instructions on how to use the course materials are available here.

• Organization

  Each course has its own coding system. The code of this course is C 6. Each course consists of units. Each unit has a unique code, for example, U 6.1. In the section ‘Unit 6.1 videos │ …” you can find and watch all video-recorded lectures that belong to this unit. Similarly, in the section ‘Unit 6.1 course materials│ …”  you can download all materials that make this unit (e.g. high-resolution videos, presentation slides, reading materials, exercises, assignments, etc) as a single compressed file (in zip format). Some files may be of considerable size, so you need to assure that your computer has sufficient bandwidth and capacity for downloading.