Acknowledgments

The concept and contents of this resource were developed by past and present members of the WASH working group of the NTDs NGO Network and staff from the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Unit, Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health and the Department for Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at the World Health Organization.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the following additional contributions:

Sarah Bartlett (Sightsavers) for editorial support; Christian Nwosu (Sightsavers) and the WHO Communications Team for contribution to the development of the online version of the toolkit; The Carter Center Sudan, Waltaji Kutane (WHO Ethiopia), Nebiyu Negussu (Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health) and the NALA Foundation for contributing country level programme experience and feedback on tools; The UK Department for International Development and the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust for funding to trachoma elimination, including much of the technical resources and implementation experience on which this toolkit is based; and Sightsavers, for funding an initial toolkit development workshop.

The toolkit draws on some programming and technical resources developed by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and WaterAid. Certain tools were developed based on experience from implementing the ENVISION and Sightsavers “IEC and Social Mobilization NTD Tool Kit” and the International Coalition for Trachoma Control “All You Need for F and E: A practical guide to partnering and planning”.

WHO gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the UK Department for International Development for their wider support to its work on WASH and Neglected Tropical Diseases.