Who is involved
The HCF-WISE Consortium
The HCF-WISE Scales are being developed collaboratively by WASH researchers and practitioners from a range of sectors. The Executive Committee oversees the operation of the consortium and sets consistent methodological guidance; site leads carry the work into health care facilities and ensure data integrity.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee establishes the study protocol, maintains the harmonized database, and coordinates analysis and publication across sites.
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University at Buffalo; Center for Climate Change and Health Equity
Professor, Northwestern University
Helvetas
Helvetas
Site leads
Site leads adapt the instruments to local language and context, direct data collection, and oversee data integrity.
Data collection complete
Ghana · Volta and Central RegionsPATHAdam Drolet, Senior Program Officer
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Mozambique · Cabo Delgado and Nampula ProvincesSwiss Water and Sanitation Consortium and HelvetasDercio Obra, Olga Cambaco
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Nepal · Bardiya, Surkhet, and DailekhSwiss Water and Sanitation Consortium and HelvetasBal Mukunda Kunwar, Prakash Bohara, Ramesh Bohara
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Uganda · Wobulenzi and KakoogeEawag and the Swiss Water and Sanitation ConsortiumSara Marks, Marisa Boller, Olivia Ashaba Ahebwa, Davis Majara
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In preparation
Burkina FasoSwiss Water and Sanitation Consortium and Terre des hommesKamboulbé Dah, Heraesaie Worokuy, Hassane Dembele, Aboubacar Ballo
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Malawi · Zomba and Chikwawa DistrictsFreshwater Project InternationalZoe Pacciani
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MaliSwiss Water and Sanitation Consortium and Terre des hommesKamboulbé Dah, Heraesaie Worokuy, Hassane Dembele, Aboubacar Ballo
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How the consortium works
Partners agree to collect data using the standardized HCF-WISE methodology and to contribute de-identified survey, cognitive interview, and facility assessment data to a harmonized database managed by the Executive Committee, for the purposes of scale development and equivalence testing. Contributing sites hold sole ownership of the data they contribute, unless a different agreement is reached.
Sites retain the right to publish their own analyses of the data they contributed, including summary statistics and predictive analyses, without seeking permission. The one request is that sites do not publish site-specific WASH insecurity scales.
Authorship follows ICMJE criteria. Every site lead is offered at least consortium authorship on the primary scale development paper, and funders and contributors at each site are acknowledged in every publication and presentation that uses their data.
With support from
Parts of this work have been supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through the Swiss Water and Sanitation Consortium. Site-level data collection is supported by a range of funders across the consortium.
Join the consortium
Working in health care facilities?
We are looking for partners in any income setting, urban or rural, who are willing to add the HCF-WISE survey to monitoring or evaluation work they already have planned.