Water

In 2006, ADB provided a loan for the Shandong Hai River Basin Pollution Control Project (SHRBPCP) to improve environmental and social conditions in secondary cities and towns in the Hai River Basin and support planned urban development.

Environmental hygiene practices, such as those involving sullage and excreta disposal, food handling, waste disposal, and others, have not been given importance in water and environment related programs. Water and sanitation programs frequently focus on the provision of hardware, missing out on the importance of hygiene awareness to realize the programs’ health benefits. For instance, hygiene behaviors linked with disease transmission need to be identified to formulate strategies for change.

Demonstrating the impact of hygiene promotion on public health and environmental improvement may be both time-consuming and costly, but addressing this is critical to optimize the impact of investment in water and sanitation.

• Beneficiary assessment on sanitation and hygiene behavior completed
• Benchmark data collected
• Monitoring indicators developed
• Awareness of target communities for sanitation and hygiene promotion improved
• Capacity building for implementing agencies to incorporate hygiene promotion in the project design and implementation completed
• Monitoring indicators and mechanism established

• Final Report (December 2007)
• Midterm Report (September 2007)
• Inception Report (December 2006)
• Proposal (October 2005)
• Country Water Action: Planning Pollution Control in Shandong Province's Hai River Basin (May 2006)