Resources: WaterAid

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  • Launch of Open Defecation Free Malawi Strategy

    On the 7th December 2011, the Government of Malawi (GoM) through the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and key line ministries in collaboration with development partners, NGOs, private sector, communities and key sector players, officially launched the ODF Malawi Strategy (2012-2015).

    Read more about the strategy

    Read a Press Release in The Nation 6th December 2011

  • UK Minister visits CLTS work in Pirganj, Rangpur, Bangladesh

    Stephen O’Brien, UK Minister for international development, visited Aanantopur village of Chatra union under Pirganj Upazilla of Rangpur district on 17 November 2011. The visit was intended to develop an understanding of CLTS and how WaterAid and its partners have used the approach to improve the lives of poor people in rural Bangladesh.

  • WaterAid global campaign urges governments to do more to tackle the water and sanitation crisis

    WaterAid launched a global campaign on World Toilet Day to urge governments across the world to do more to tackle the water and sanitation crisis. The campaign called Water Works encourages individuals to contact elected representatives and encourage them to take action ahead of the 2012 Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting.
    Read more about the campaign and take part
    WaterAid also launched the Off track, off target report ahead of World Toilet Day.

  • Revitalising CLTS: A process guide / Revitaliser le processus de l'ATPC-Guide de mise en oeuvre

    A WaterAid report (June 2011) (English/Français)
    Written by: Ada Oko-Williams and Joe Lambongang with Nick Bundle

    Download the Revitalising CLTS Report

    Revitaliser le processus d’assainissement total piloté par la communauté-Guide de mise en oeuvre

  • Engaging Natural Leaders in Community-led Total Sanitation in Nigeria

    Note by WaterAid Nigeria on the benefits of and strategies for engaging Natural Leaders in CLTS. (2011)

    Read the note

  • CLTS to eliminate open defecation in Ghana

    Article in Today Ghana, 16th March 2011 about a recent national training of trainer’s workshop on CLTS facilitated by Kamal Kar and organised by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the National Technical Working Group on Sanitation together with Plan Ghana, UNICEF and WaterAid.

  • Just building a million latrines won't solve Africa's sanitation crisis

    In this article in The Guardian, Juanita During argues that CLTS puts people in charge of their own development and signals hope for the millions of Nigerians lacking access to good sanitation. (21st January 2011)

  • 425 communities ‘open defecation free’ in Nigeria

    Article in the People’s Daily, 10th November 2010

    No fewer than 425 communities have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) in the country, the Chairman, sub-technical Committee on Water Supply and Quality Control, Mr Usang Bassey, said, yesterday, in Jos, the Plateau state capital.

  • Gozakope constructs its first latrines in over 100 years

    Update from WaterAid Ghana (November 2009) which focuses on the introduction of CLTS in Gozakope, a rural community in the Dangme West District.

  • Papers on CLTS from the West Africa Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium, 3-5 November 2009, Accra, Ghana

    The bi-lingual West Africa Regional Symposium on Sanitation and Hygiene (3-5 Nov 2009, Accra, Ghana) brought together about 140 participants from 17 countries. It was jointly organised by the Resource Centre Network Ghana, UNICEF, West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI), WaterAid, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, and supported by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.

  • Sustainability and equity aspects of total sanitation programmes: A study of recent WaterAid-supported programmes in three countries

    Over 2008/09, WaterAid completed a multi-country research study exploring sustainability and equity aspects of community led sanitation initiatives (Community led total sanitation, CLTS) in Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria.

    The purpose of the study was to contribute to the global understanding of community-wide open defecation-free approaches, with a focus on the extent to which these approaches result in sustained and equitable improvements in sanitation behaviour.

  • Towards total sanitation: Socio-cultural barriers and triggers to total sanitation in West Africa

    WaterAid (2009)
    This report documents the results of studies on open defecation in rural communities and the cultural values that reinforce its practise carried out by WaterAid in four West African countries — Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria.

  • When a small community celebrates World Toilet Day

    On World Toilet Day 2009, the small community of Gora, in Ioba Province in the South West Region of Burkina Faso, decided to put a stop to open defecation.

    (document contains English and French versions of the article)

  • Burkina Faso

    Established formally in Burkina Faso since 2003, WaterAid is working with partner NGOs on the ground for the implementation of projects of water supply and sanitation in 8 regions (Centre, Centre west, Centre East, East, North, Southwest, Boucle du Mouhoun and Sahel) and 40 local governments. Currently, the Country Programme is in partnership with six (6) NGOs (DAKUPA, SASO, AMUS, SOSSI BF, VARENA, and AMB) in its intervention areas.
    Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a new concept in Burkina Faso.

  • Regional Workshop on CLTS in the South East Asia and Pacific Region

    Almost 60 participants from eight countries in the South East Asia and Pacific region gathered between the 9th and the 13th November 2009 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to talk about Community-led Total Sanitation.

  • CLTS Sensitisation and Capacity Development in Anglophone West Africa Regional Workshop Report

    UNICEF in collaboration with WaterAid held a regional CLTS sensitization and capacity development workshop for West African Anglophone countries in Otukpo, Benue State Nigeria from 1st to 7th of March 2009.

  • Community-led Total Sanitation in Nepal: Getting us back on track

    WaterAid Occasional Paper (2006)

    This paper provides a summary of CLTS initiatives in Nepal and looks at how CLTS could help Nepal reach the MDG sooner, rather than later.

  • Ghana

    History and Background
    Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) has been identified as the approach that has demonstrated the potential to propel Ghana back on track to reach its MDG target on sanitation. This approach came on the heels of a sanitation promotion approach implemented by the Afram Plains Development Organisation (APDO) and funded by WaterAid in Ghana (WAG) called ‘Total Sanitation’ under which total sanitation of communities was encouraged.

    Between 2006 and 2007, CLTS was piloted in 4 Regions through the collaborative efforts of government and private sector actors.

  • An end to open defecation

    This id21 research highlight on CLTS contains an editorial piece on CLTS, as well as four short summaries of CLTS-related research publications, with links to the original documents and further related information.

    id21 is one of a number of knowledge services from IDS. It communicates the latest UK-sourced international development research to policymakers & practitioners worldwide.

  • Nigeria

    Beginnings
    Community Led Total Sanitation and its adaptations were piloted in Nigeria from 2004 to 2007 in several communities. The pilot interventions were carried out by several organizations such as UNICEF, WaterAid, State and Local governments and based on the outcome, CLTS was adopted as a major approach for rural sanitation development in the government approved Strategy for Scaling up Rural Sanitation in the country.

  • Nepal

    Prior to 2003, all sanitation promotion approaches in Nepal relied on significant hardware subsidies and in some programmes the use of a revolving loan to finance sanitation.

  • Ethiopia

    Background
    There has been a great deal of progress in the sanitation and hygiene sector in Ethiopia during the past five years, much of it achieved through the Government’s Health Extension Programme and the subsequent introduction and spread of Community Led Total Sanitation. According to Government figures, about 60% of the total population now have access to sanitation facilities (56% in rural areas). Internationally published estimates are lower (e.g., the 2010 JMP estimates rural sanitation access, including basic and shared facilities, at 29% as of 2008.

  • Bangladesh

    The CLTS approach was first developed in Bangladesh in 1999 by Dr Kamal Kar, a consultant working with Village Education Resource Centre (VERC) and supported by WaterAid. Since then the approach has spread rapidly, being taken up by several other NGOs as well as donor supported government programmes.

    The Government of Bangladesh has set itself the target of achieving 100% sanitation by 2010, five years ahead of the MDG target.