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Changing Human Behaviour – Prospects for Progress
Wednesday 20 August
Workshop 3 - Full Day Workshop
Convenor : Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Co-Convenors : The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Academy for Educational Development (AED)
In our daily activities, we can contribute to improved health and reduce pollution. We can build sustainability through improvements in simple routines, such as improved hygiene, safer storage and disposal of liquid and solid waste, or by adopting precautionary measures in the use of hazardous substances in households and economic activities. In sanitation and many other human development fields, technical advancements are vital. But human preferences and actual behaviour can make or break almost any technical solution. Institutional and political settings are key, and cultural dimensions and social traditions must be incorporated to design effective policies and technologies. There are limits to the impact of political guidance; therefore the workshop focuses on how human behaviour can be steered towards a clean and healthy world.
This workshop will focus on down to earth issues related to human behaviour. It is essential to provide concrete examples from different parts of the world. Cases should illustrate what values, policies and initiatives have been effective in motivating people to adopt behaviour that have led to pollution abatement and/or proper and continuously functioning sanitation systems.
Workshop Details :
Chair: Ms. Clarissa Brocklehurst, UNICEF
Co-chair: Ms. Therese Dooley, UNICEF
Commentator: Ms. Annette Huber-Lee, IFPRI
Rapporteur: Prof. Peter Rogers, Harvard University, USA
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