Cambodia – WaterSHED in collaboration with London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is conducting a formative study, Infant and young child faeces management and potential enabling products for their hygienic collection, transport, and disposal in Cambodia.
The study aimed at Identifying current practices and use of equipment or materials related to faces collection, transport, and disposal among caregivers with at least one child under five-years of age and with an improved household sanitation facility.
The researcher would also want to determine barriers and motivators for hygienic faeces management and disposal.
That would lead the inventory and categorizing the range of products that have already been developed and Ascertain the acceptability and appeal of relevant enabling products or product designs that would be used to increase proper infant defecation.
Ms. Molly Miller-Petrie, the researcher said that such a study is not the first in the world but it is probably the first in Cambodia. The study would be a baseline for further study in the future.
In Cambodia children, especially in the province or remote areas, defecate on the yard or fields and it has not been raised She quoted a respondent as saying “He can go to the bathroom in the yard now because he is so small, but if he was bigger the latrine would be a better place”.
Started from June 2014, the study which covers three provinces where WaterSHED is working on sanitation promotion, will issue its finding in September 2014.