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SPRING/Mali Step-by-Step Tippy Tap Set-up and Training

The creation and use of tippy taps to promote handwashing was incorporated into SPRING training in gardening, essential nutrition actions/essential hygiene actions (ENA/EHA), and community-led total sanitation (CLTS). From 2015-2016, we trained 5,500 people in gardening, 375 facility staff in ENA/EHA, helped establish 200 community-level ENA/EHA support groups, and triggered 26 communities in CLTS. We encouraged families to install a tippy tap near both latrines and kitchens to encourage handwashing at all appropriate times. As a result, 4,686 tippy taps were built in the 100 villages targeted by SPRING in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence in the Mopti Region.

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Placing the soap. SPRING/Mali stressed the use of soap, rather than using ash or just water, while handwashing. (Mopti, April 2015)
Our trainer holds the water jug to start building the tippy tap. The jug has a small puncture hole in the front to allow water to escape without touching the jug.
He uses string to hang the jug to hang it from the horizontal stick between the trees.
The string also connects to a foot controlled stick on the ground, which allows the jug to tip over to release a stream of water.
Using the foot controlled string at the bottom, our trainer tips the jug to release a string of water and wets his hands.
Our trainer shows how to get a good lather with soap to reduce germs, while saving water.
He tips the jug once more to rinse the soap from his hands.
A village trainee soaps up using the new tippy tap.
The trainee successfully rinses his hands using the foot control.
Our trainer has an attentive audience at a tippy tap demonstration in Koro. (May 2015)
Trainees ask questions after a demonstration in Koro.
The Koro demonstration shows a high hanging tippy tap.