Resources: Plan

On the 20th January, four villages in Mulanje were declared ODF by Plan International and the government of Malawi. “[I]mproving sanitation condition of Malawi ensures the country’s own bright future,” said Bolaji Akinboro, Plan’s Country Director.

Description of a CLTS training workshop that was jointly organised by Plan Sudan and Goal Ireland in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Health and the Khartoum State Ministry of Health and took place from the 17th to 21st December 2011.

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

On the 19th November, rural communities in Meung, Pha Oudom, and Paktha in Bokeo province, Laos, marked World Toilet Day with sanitation-and-hygiene-promoting activities organized by the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene program of Plan International, Lao PDR Office, with financial support from the Australian government/AusAID.
Read more about the activities in Lao or in English

During activities held by Plan Malawi to mark World Toilet Day on the 19th November, Mulanje District Environmental Health Officer Bosco Kalua revealed that 35 percent of households in Mulanje have no toilets, posing a huge sanitation risk. Commemoration of World Toilet Day was in line with Plan Malawi’s CLTS project and the event was held under the theme, “Take part in development of your community-One household-One toilet”.

Article about the drive to eradicate open defecation with the help of CLTS in Kenya

Source: AllAfrica.com 18th November 2011

Vietnam marked the 2011 World Toilet Day with a sanitation workshop, bringing together officials from the Ministry of Health, researchers from national research institutes and sanitation practitioners from various national agencies, NCCR North-South, WHO, Unilever, INGOs including Plan International, East Meets West and Lien Aid. Results of various researches related to sanitation were presented and discussed.

In September 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Plan International USA a four-year $7 million dollar learning and implementation grant to determine how to best introduce Community-Led Total Sanitation solutions in developing countries. Research and testing will be conducted on new and specifically designed projects in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Ghana and will examine the CLTS approach, ultimately aiming to uncover ways to make it more scalable and cost-effective.

Short write up on Plan’s CLTS activities in Bombali District, Sierra Leone which form part of the five year Pan African programme Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa

Plan Indonesia Project Highlight from July 2011, with details of the successes of the community-led water, sanitation and hygiene program (STBM).

Short write up of Plan’s CLTS activities, experiences, results and lessons learned in Dompu district, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

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.