CLTS and sanitation in the news

The 2nd LatinoSan Conference will be taking place in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil from the 14th-18th March 2010.

IDS is holding a One Day Introductory workshop on CLTS (see flyer below) as well as a lunchtime session on CLTS at the event, so if you are attending LatinoSan, please join us for one or both. Both events are taking place at the Rafain Palace Hotel (the main conference venue). More details will be posted here soon so watch this space or get in touch if you would like to receive more information about the events.

The19th November 2009 is World Toilet Day, a day to raise awareness of the global sanitation situation and to celebrate something many of us take for granted: a toilet.

The Golden Poo Awards are being held on 15th October 2009 as part of Global Handwashing Day. As well as screening and awards for animated films on the themes of hygiene and sanitation, there will be awards made to those who have made outstanding contributions to these fields.

Contributions are being sought from those working with CLTS (practitioners from NGOs and agencies, governments, Natural Leaders) who would like to contribute an article of up to 2500 words to the forthcoming issue of Participatory Learning and Action on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa. Contributions should capture practical experiences of practitioners in CLTS: processes they have been engaged in, achievements, lessons, innovations, challenges, ways forward.

An interview by Nergui Manalsuren from Inter Press Services (IPS) with Therese Dooley, UNICEF’s Sanitation Advisor.

Forty per cent of the world’s population are without access to a latrine or toilet. But how do you get people to think about building a toilet when they’ve never had one? Earth Report travels to Bangladesh to discover changing attitudes to hygiene. Instead of top-down solutions, a new community-led approach is encouraging people to sort out their sanitation in more than 300 villages. Earth Report investigates.

In conjunction with SACOSAN III, a One Day Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS was held at the India Habitat Centre in Delhi on Monday the 17th November 2008.

In a Guardian special on the Millennium Development Goals, Maggie Black argues that technology is only part of the solution to improving toilet facilities: a change of culture is often needed too. The Guardian, Wednesday 24th September 2008.

Article 21 July 2008 World ‘badly off track’ to meet sanitation targets.

On the occasion of Sanitation and Hygiene Week (15-22 March 2008) and World Water Day (22 March 2008), IDS reports back from AfricaSan 2008 , highlighting the potential of CLTS to improve the health and wellbeing of the 300 million Africans still lacking access to improved sanitation.

IDS used the occasion of World Toilet Day, celebrated every year on the 19th November, as an opportunity to highlight the work being done with CLTS in different countries and draw attention to its potential to help improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people across the world.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/index.cfm?objectId=5CC1CE43-EA51-16F9-3DF3F1CD8D00874A

More than 11,000 people worldwide see the development of sanitation as the greatest medical advance in the last 166 years, according to the British Medical Journal – a sign of hope that sanitation is finally getting the recognition it deserves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6275001.stm

The Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation took place in New Delhi from the 16 – 21 November 2008.