Resources: WSP

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  • Shared sanitation, hygiene information and tales (S.S.H.I.T)- Kenya's monthly CLTS newsletter

    New CLTS newsletter produced by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, supported by Plan Kenya, SNV, WSP and the CLTS Foundation. Includes interviews, news and articles relating to CLTS in Kenya.
    You can subscribe to the newsletter directly via the CLTS Kenya website

  • Partnering on the Road Towards Achieving Total Sanitation in East Africa

    In East Africa, access to basic sanitation remains low, and intensive work is needed across the region to achieve sustained scaling up of sanitation. Determining how governments and non-governmental agencies can work together more effectively to achieve this goal is essential. This Learning Note highlights a learning exchange held for representatives from the Government of Tanzania and six non-governmental organizations. An initial outcome included consensus on a set learning questions to expand the knowledge base in areas such as equity and inclusion, sanitation marketing, and monitoring and evaluation.
    WSP, November 2011

  • Long Term Sustainability of Improved Sanitation in Rural Bangladesh

    Research conducted in rural Bangladesh in Union Parishads that were declared 100% open defecation free almost five years ago shows that 90% of households in the areas studied have sustained use of a latrine that adequately confines feces.

  • Learning by Doing: Working at Scale in Ethiopia

    In 2006, WSP partnered with the Government of Ethiopia, the Amhara Regional Health Bureau, and USAID’s Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) to launch the Learning by Doing Initiative in Amhara Regional State, focused on achieving total behavior change in sanitation and hygiene. The project started at scale, reaching an initial 93,000 households in four districts (estimated population of 418,000) and then expanded further to include an additional 90 districts. Overall, 5.8 million people were reached and 2.8 million more people stopped practicing open defecation and now use an open pit latrine. Key strategies discussed included building capacity at the community level and developing and testing tools and training manuals.

  • Announcing Contest: Win a Spot in WSP's 2012 Cartoon Calendar

    Living without access to clean water or sanitation is no joke. But humor can also touch on complex and often sensitive issues. For this reason, since 2002, WSP has produced an annual cartoon calendar to raise awareness around critical issues related to water, sanitation, and hygiene.

  • Factors Associated with Achieving and Sustaining Open Defecation Free Communities: Learning from East Java

    Research conducted in 2010 in East Java to identify factors associated with achieving and sustaining behavior change by communities to become ODF shows that communities achieving ODF status within two months of triggering achieved markedly higher access gains.

  • WSP Videos on CLTS in Indonesia

    WSP has released three films that look at CLTS and Sanitation Marketing in Indonesia

    Unleashing latent demand for sanitation
    Filmed in Indonesia, this video features how Scaling Up Rural Sanitation began campaigns to raise consumer demand for sanitation amid competing priorities among community members. Why would you want to spend 15 percent of your annual income on something that you felt you did not need?

  • Sanitation demand and supply in Cambodia: Identifying Constraints to Increasing Sanitation Coverage

    WSP Fieldnote October 2008

    This field note summarizes research from two studies undertaken in rural and peri-urban areas of Cambodia; one on the demand for latrines among consumers, and the other on the supply of latrines by the private sector. It provides discussion on the opportunity to increase latrine purchase and installation via market forces, and outlines the recommended interventions on both the demand and supply dimensions of the market to achieve this.

  • Learning at scale: Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing Project, Indonesia Country Update

    WSP
    Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing Project:Indonesia Country Update June 2009

  • CLTS in the Lao PDR

    Overview of CLTS in Lao to date: what is being done and by whom, as well as future plans.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Pakistan

    Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) was first introduced in Pakistan at a national level workshop held in Bhurban in 2004 when the approach was discussed and experience from other countries in Asia was shared. Dr. Kamal Kar presented the approach in the workshop and literature on CLTS was distributed to the interested people.

  • 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.

  • Bolivia

    Sanitation remains a difficult challenge in Bolivia. It is unlikely that the country will attain the MDGs in 2015. The situation in rural areas, where 25% of the population still lives, is particularly critical. UNICEF Bolivia came to know about CLTS from the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) iN Indonesia. As CLTS seemed to offer potential for positive change, UNICEF started a limited application of CLTS in 2007, after Kamal Kar had introduced the approach with training workshops in La Paz and Llalagua in December 2006.