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Title
RiPPLE - Promoting Sanitation
and Hygiene to rural
households: The experience of the
Southern Nations,
Nationalities and People’s
Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia
Abstract
This is a synthesis of the case studies on sanitation and hygiene (S&H) in the Southern Nations region
(SNNPR) of Ethiopia commissioned by the RiPPLE Programme – Research-inspired Policy and
Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region (www.rippleethiopia.org) – carried out in 2007.
RiPPLE is a research and learning project funded by the Department for International Development
of the UK Government (DFID). The purpose of RiPPLE is ‘to advance evidence-based learning on
water supply and sanitation (WSS) financing, delivery and sustainability that leads to measurable
improvements to the equity of water and sanitation access for the poor in Ethiopia and the wider
Nile region’.
Latrine construction and use, hand-washing and water storage/handling by households were
surveyed, by quantitative and qualitative methods, in six localities (kebele) in two districts (woreda).
The project also studied the policy-making process.
In both districts, the results show a substantial increase in the number of household latrines, using
basic technology, achieved in a few years. Some questions do arise as to the sustainability of this
wave of latrine construction in prevailing environmental conditions. In order that households (HHs)
maintain a foothold on this first basic rung of the sanitation ‘ladder’, the aim of the regional Bureau of
Health (BoH) is to arrange for further support to HHs – motivational and technical follow up. Latrine
design and materials choice merit further (action) research to increase present short lifetimes of
latrines. As to hygiene, the survey and interviews suggest there was some increase in awareness,
although observation pointed to continued poor practices in hand washing and water
storage/handling – suggesting a need for further research on HH behaviour change.
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