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