{"id":265,"date":"2025-05-29T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/?p=265"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:56:01","slug":"w-a-s-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/positivetechlab\/2025\/w-a-s-h\/","title":{"rendered":"W.A.S.H."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        W.A.S.H.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Niyousha Saeidi&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"project-summary\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This research addresses critical gaps in <strong>female sanitation and hygiene education<\/strong> among adolescent girls in Mozambique. Despite efforts in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), most solutions remain generic, overlooking <strong>cultural specificity<\/strong>, technological limitations, and gendered experiences in low-income regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through a <strong>Human-Centered<\/strong>, <strong>Women-Centered<\/strong>, and <strong>Participatory Design<\/strong> approach, the project developed a mobile application tailored to support adolescent girls with practical and culturally relevant resources on menstrual health, hygiene, and community knowledge sharing. Designed in partnership with the NGO <strong>Waterlution<\/strong>, the app features content delivery modules, health journaling, and social support systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a <strong>three-phase design process<\/strong>, ideation, iterative prototyping, and full-scale testing\u2014the tool was refined with feedback from local participants and international experts. The final prototype demonstrates how digital design, when grounded in local realities and co-designed with users, can serve as a scalable intervention to <strong>enhance wellbeing and empower communities<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Culturally Sensitive Design, Mobile Health, WASH, Mozambique, Human-Centered Design, Gender and Technology, Social Innovation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                \n        <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-3 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n            \n\n\n        <\/div>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Summary This research addresses critical gaps in female sanitation and hygiene education among adolescent girls in Mozambique. 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