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Participation in health promotion is an incredibly important component of every WASH project. We at Agua del Pueblo (AdP) (<www.aguadelpueblo.org> and <www.peopleswater.org>) follow a specific, integrated methodology with a goal to maximize community leadership. We feel that the methodology is the best way to obtain community participation in all phases including health promotion. Some of the elements of the methodology include: -AdP does not look for water projects. AdP only responds to requests directly from the community. -The community must provide ALL of the manual labor and participate in the funding. -Each family needs to physically sign a document that specifies community responsibility. We have found that the process of signing improves individual buy-in. -Each community must obtain local government support in terms of financing, at least for skilled labor. Please let us know how we can help. It takes more than a village to accomplish our WASH goals!