Hygiene And Sanitation for All empowers low - income rural women with the necessary skills to make tangible improvement to the quality of their lives. It builds on the knowledge and skills that women have in the areas of sanitation, hygiene, HIV/AIDS, cooking stoves and alternative food and fuel sources. It facilitates the sharing of knowledge and gives technical input where needed in the above areas. It is a group problem solving process which aims at facilitating participants / individuals to develop and internalize life planning skills that enhance their capacity to avoid engaging in risky health behaviors such as casual sex as a way of earning a living, and sexual violence against women.

Phase One: This comprises of Community Mobilization, HIV/AIDS / Reproductive Health Sensitization seminars and Training of Trainers (T.O.Ts) of Community Peer Educators.
Community Mobilization and Sensitization involves facilitating community leaders and the general community to change their knowledge, attitudes, and practices that expose women to the dangers of HIV/AIDS. Participants are sensitized on the challenges women face and what they can do to help.
It involves the provision of information education and communication (IEC) materials to the community to ensure their participation, contribution, and involvement in solving issues that affect the women's reproductive rights. To ensure ownership of the project by the women, women are involved in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the activities.

Phase Two: The second phase builds on the first. The activities in this phase include;
Training of Trainers (T.O.T) of rural women in home basic Hygiene and Sanitation. During the training workshops, the participants look at general community hygiene, house hygiene, food hygiene and personal hygiene with emphasis on situations of people who are infected and affected by the HIV/AIDS. Within these areas they examine the present situation discussing any potential dangers associated with the present practices of hygiene levels in homes with households with an HIV/AIDS infected person.

Participants suggest possible solutions and draw up resolutions that they themselves will be able to implement. Skits and pictures for group work, help the participants focus on particular issues for example pit latrines management.

Training of Trainers (T.O.T) of rural women in basic Nutrition. This is aimed at improving the nutritional status of the vulnerable population groups of women - mothers and children. This is because malnutrition compromises the nutritional status of people and diminishes their potential for growth and good health. According to the State of Uganda Population Report 2002, Malnutrition in children today slows economic growth and development for decades to come by increasing illness and mortality thus reducing the productivity of tomorrow's labor force. Therefore investing to improve the nutrition of women and children today is an effective way to improve living standards of generations to come. The training helps participants to recognize the signs of malnutrition in both adults and children and to understand the nutritional needs of different members of the family. It facilitates participants to examine the cultural beliefs and practices, which influences the types of foods that are eaten by different members of the family. It equips participants with the skills to plan a balanced diet and explores alternative food sources.

After the trainings, the women and men trained implement these skills in their own homes and train at least 5 of their neighbors to do so also. House to house follow - up is carried out by community volunteers supervised by Community Support for Children in Need (COSCINE) field staff. These and more follow - up meetings with the participants and those they have trained, provide an impetus for the women to implement quickly what they have learnt and provide an opportunity for monitoring. This phase has a multiplier effect in that each woman or man trained would further train at least five (5) others to make clean pit latrines, cooking facilities/fuel saving stoves and the food patterns in their respective families as a way of improving on household hygiene and nutrition.

Phase three: Comprises of Community Workers Assessment Workshops. This will then be conducted to appraise multiplier home - to - home training by the trained women. In these appraisal workshops (follow - ups), the women / men show the Community Support for Children in Need (COSCINE) the extra homes they have reached. They are also given motivating items like certificates, bicycles for the team leaders, financial incentives and others.

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