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Research Article, Expert Opin Environ Biol Vol: 5 Issue: 1

Implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project in Cross River State Using the Participatory Development Planning Approach

Eneji CVO1*, Asuquo I2, Acha JO3, Ochiche CA4 and Eneji JEO5
1Department of Environmental Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria
2Department of Science Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria
3Department of Adult Education and Community Development, University of Calabar, Nigeria
4Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Calabar,Nigeria
5Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Nigeria
Corresponding author : Eneji Chris-Valentine Ogar
Dept. of Environmental Education, University of Calabar, PMB 1115, Calabar, Nigeria
Tel: +23480 8504 0272
E-mail: vcogareneji@unical.edu.ng, vcogareneji@yahoo.com
Received: August 19, 2015 Accepted: September 25, 2015 Published: September 30, 2015
Citation: Eneji CVO, Asuquo I, Acha JO, Ochiche CA, Eneji JEO (2015) Implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project in Cross River State Using the Participatory Development Planning Approach. Expert Opin Environ Biol 5:1. doi:10.4172/2325-9655.1000124

Abstract

Implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project in Cross River State Using the Participatory Development Planning Approach

It has been observed that most development projects implemented in most rural communities from either donor agencies or government are hardly sustained or maintained to serve the rural communities. This is so because the planning of these projects, its design and implementation strategies are usually made from outside the rural communities by external agencies and only transported to such rural communities for implementation, these projects seldom have community ownership, and hence they decay out of negligence and poor maintenance. Most rural community’s development has been hindered by the persistence health challenges orchestrated by the level of community’s ignorance of their water, sanitation and hygiene habit and attitude. This has severally led to the occurrence of water borne diseases, sanitation and other hygiene related ailment. In recent times this has been responsible for most child killer diseases, so concerted effort needed to be carried out to address the problem of water, sanitation and hygiene.

Keywords: Sanitation; Hygiene; Sanitary facilities; hygiene behavior; Water borne diseases; WASH related ailments

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