CLTS and sanitation in the news

Amnesty International Report- Insecurity and Indignity: women's experiences in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Amnesty International has just published a report on women’s experiences in the slums of Nairobi which shows that women living in informal settlements are particularly affected by the lack of adequate access to sanitation facilities. In addition to difficulties relating to lack of privacy, they face threats to their safety. Lack of toilet facilities in or near the home means that women are vulnerable to rape and other gender-based violence when they go for open defecation or visit public facilities during the night.
(July 2010)
NEW: Read about the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi

New feature on the website: Follow the progress of the urban CLTS pilot in Mathare 10, Nairobi, Kenya through the eyes of Sammy Musyoki of Plan Kenya in the Mathare 10 diary which will be regularly updated.
Beating boring, banal diarrhoea:Basic sanitation saves lives, but many countries around the world are still a long way from achieving it

Read this article by Rose George in The Guardian, 26th June 2010 on how basic sanitation, despite being responsible for the deaths of billions of children and adults every year, is still not getting the attention it should.
CLTS newsletter celebrates getting its 1,000th subscriber!

The CLTS newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers from around the globe!
The interest in the bi-monthly newsletter, which contains updates on what is new on the website as well as other CLTS-related news and information, has increased dramatically, with the number of subscribers doubling in the last six months.

If you are not already on the list, why not subscribe?
International African Water and Sanitation Congress and Exhibition

The International African Water and Sanitation Congress and Exhibition will be taking place in Kampala, Uganda, from the 15th-18th March 2010.
LatinoSan 2010

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.
The Big Squat

As part of World Toilet Day activities on the 19th November, the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) has launched The Big Squat- a movement for the toilet-less
World Toilet Day: What would you do without a loo?

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.
AMCOW AfricaSan Awards 2009: Chief Macha from Zambia receives top honour for leadership

The AMCOW AfricaSan top honor for Leadership has been awarded to His Royal Highness Chief Macha, a traditional and community leader from Zambia who has used his status in a uniquely proactive manner to advocate for improved sanitation, not just in his Kingdom of Tonga which has now attained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status, but also in the wider district and province with a multitude of stakeholders.The African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) is pleased to invite entries for the maiden AfricaSan Awards competition.
Golden Poo Awards: Call for Nominations for Hygiene and Sanitation Champions

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.
Liquid Dynamics: Rethinking Sustainability in Water and Sanitation @ World Water Week

In Stockholm for World Water Week ? World Water Week

Please join the STEPS Centre’s water team led by Dr Lyla Mehta for lunchtime coffee and cake, straight after the Closing Plenary on Friday 21st August.
Call for submissions: Contributions to a Participatory Learning Action (PLA) Issue on Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa

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.
Ending Open Defecation - One community at a time: interview with Dr Kamal Kar on Think Globally Radio

This Sunday, 7th June, 7pm Central European Time (CET), Think Globally Radio will broadcast Ending Open Defecation – One Community at a time, an interview with Dr. Kamal Kar.

The broadcast can be listened to live at www.thsradio.se. It can also be downloaded via i-tunes (usually a few days after the broadcast). (If you are in Stockholm, you can listen to the show at THS Radio 95.3FM)
Sanitation is becoming a social movement

‘Sanitation is becoming a social movement’ says Therese Dooley, UNICEF’s Sanitation Advisor in this interview with IPS (Inter Press Service).
CLTS in Africa - 5 day workshop in Mombasa, Kenya

Plan RESA and IDS held a 5 day CLTS workshop in Mombasa, Kenya, from the 9th -13th March 2009.

This event aimed to take stock of what has happened in the year since AfricaSan+5 in Durban and the CLTS Sharing and Learning Workshop that took place there in February 2008.
Repeat broadcast of BBC/TVE Earth Report Clean Living: CLTS in Bangladesh

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.
IDS Conference on CLTS, 16-18th December 2008

IDS held a conference on CLTS from the 16th- to 18th December 2008. This event formed part of the DFID-funded project Going to Scale: The Potential of Community-led Total Sanitation in which IDS has been engaged in over the last few years.
SACOSAN III: One Day Sharing and Learning Workshop on CLTS

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.
We need to talk about toilets

In August, the New Internationalist published a special issue on Toilets which features a profile of Kamal Kar as one of the Toilet Champions.
'Name and Shame' Policy Gets Results

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.
Guardian Article

Sanitation: Creating a stink about the world’s wastewater by Maggie Black, The Guardian, 20th August 2008. Britain’s sanitary revolution took place 150 years ago, but what is preventing so much of the developing world from catching up?
Daily Times of Pakistan

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

On the occasion of World Environment Day on the 5th June 2008, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSC) highlighted the effects of the global sanitation crisis on the environment and urged for accelerated efforts to end open defecation. For the details see.
Sanitation and Hygiene Week

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.
AfricaSan - The 2nd African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene

AfricaSan+5 – was held in Durban, South Africa from February 18 to 21, 2008. At the conference Ministers signed the eThekwini Declaration (PDF) and approved the AfricaSan Action Plan (PDF). Institute of Development Studies and Plan Region of Eastern and Southern Africa jointly hosted a one-day workshop on CLTS, prior to the main conference.
World Toilet Day 2007

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
World Water Day March 2007: Resources from Institute of Development Studies
- IDS News: Top Five Priorities – What researchers believe are the five top priorities that need to be addressed if we are to cope with water scarcity HTML
- IDS News: Spend less to achieve more – donors are urged to rethink their mindsets and methods towards water and sanitation HTML
- Podcast from The Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre –

Sanitation- Reported as 'The Best Medical Advance'

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
World Toilet Day: Community-led Solutions to the Sanitation Crisis

Petra Bongartz, Esha Shah and Lyla Mehta discuss the potential of Community-led Total Sanitation to address the world’s sanitation problems.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/news/archive2006/toiletday.html
Event: SACOSAN III

The Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation took place in New Delhi from the 16 – 21 November 2008.
2nd South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-2) & 1-day CLTS Workshop

Islamabad, Pakistan, 19-22 September 2006.

2nd South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-2) & 1-day CLTS Workshop
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