Does Integrating Savings, Lending, and Income-Generating Activities Improve the State of Latrines?

Community Health Clubs (CHCs) are a cost-effective and participatory-based approach that supports the uptake of key water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors Amalima, a USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Resilience Food Security Activity (2013- 2020), selected this approach with the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) and in alignment with the Zimbabwe National Sanitation and Hygiene Policy. During implementation, latrine costs were identified as a barrier to improving sanitation. CHCs were encouraged to diversify into income-generating (IGA) and village savings and lending (VSL) activities, although not all decided to pursue this activity. This poster presents findings from a qualitative study undertaken to better understand barriers and motivators to latrine construction and how/if the integration of these activities with CHCs improved uptake of latrine construction.