A tool developed by the IFRC (2013) to identify social and cultural factors that influence the success of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programmes (emergency and long term), with the aim of designing more effective and culturally appropriate WASH interventions.
Part 1 of this tool refers to the IFRC’s request for the development of the tool and the social science interest in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) indicators. Part 2 introduces the document, explaining how it was created and, especially,
how it can be implemented by a WASH team. Part 3 describes the sectors, and their colour code, and topics covered by this tool. This part is made up of 7 sector specific assessment sheets that present a series of questions and their contextual
explanations, which allows us to analyze deeper the themes and sectors, and thus to collect relevant and accurate information about the host society. The first two sheets of this part introduce the basic data to be collected on the population concerned by the intervention of the organisation, as well as the sociocultural indices that are key in
the time of emergency.
Four annexes complete this document: the first one presents data on vodou in Haiti; the second one refers to the experience of water-trucking in Haiti, the third one offers a selective bibliography, and the fourth one lists the acronyms used in this document.
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